John McKellar,
Consultant statistician
Macclesfield, Cheshire

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Re: MMR / Autism - Jury still out

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john@mckellar.demon.co.uk

The link between autism and MMR is yet to be proven, but how else are these children likely to have become infected?

It is easy to knock down each part of the evidence, to claim that it is not one particular cause - but can the supporters of the MMR establish that it is NOT the cause. On balance of evidence, it looks very likely to be a main cause.

In court, it is "innocent until proven guilty", but in medicine is is guilty until proven "safe"; and what evidence have we that MMR is not linked to autism?

As one parent of an affected child commented, if a can of beans on the supermarket shelf had this much evidence against it, all the cans would have been withdrawn.

Here, all people are requesting is permission to use the single vaccines.

John McKellar
A parent of a child with autism, the latter more than likely caused by the MMR vaccines; who supports vaccination; who works in medical research and is well read on the matter.