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Posted February 24, 2010

* ►February 24, 2010 - Is there a link between childhood vaccines and autism? - Vancouver Sun - "Earlier this month, the Sun published an editorial about gastroenterologist Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the recent retraction of his 1998 study by the Lancet, a prestigious medical journal in the United Kingdom ( Journal's delayed autism mea culpa can't repair the damage it has caused, Feb. 5). ... I'd like to oppose the newspaper's view and suggest that Wakefield, instead of being a menace to public health, may in fact be on to something. My hope is merely to raise a few questions, lest this come across a zealot's anti-vaccine rant."

* ►February 24, 2010 - Rapid Responses to: Why did the Lancet take so long? - Trisha Greenhalgh: competing interests - John Stone - journal article (BMJ)

►February 23, 2010 - Vaccine-Autism Study Is Withdrawn - A look at some recent developments in vaccine research. (includes audio) - Voice of America

* ►February 23, 2010 - Expert: H1N1 Vaccines Do Not Contain Mercury - WCCO CBS - "There are minute amounts of Thimerosal in the multi-dose vials of H1N1 vaccine. "And the fact of the matter is you would get more mercury exposure by eating your tuna fish sandwich today than you would in an influenza vaccine," Stinchfield said. Autism is a devastating condition but efforts to prevent autism by removing mercury from vaccines have been ineffective, even when mercury banned in the 1990s in a couple of European countries."

Posted February 23, 2010

* ►February 23, 2010 - Trisha Greenhalgh's Competing Interests in Wakefield Case By John Stone - Age of Autism - "Prof Trisha Greenhalgh, whose analysis of the controversial Wakefield Lancet paper, was published by Sunday Times journalist Brian Deer on his website (HERE) has received more than £1.4m in grants from the UK government’s Department of Health since 2003."

* ►February 23, 2010 - Turning peer review into modern-day holy scripture - The treatment of peer-reviewed science as an unquestionable form of authority is corrupting the peer-review system and damaging public debate. - Suddenly, the esoteric system of peer review has hit the headlines. - spiked

►February 22, 2010 - Wakefield's Inquisition, Pt. 2: Complaint to the GMC - Left Brain/Right Brain

►February 22, 2010 - Autism and Gastrointestinal Problems: Which Article D'You Read? - Does autism cause constipation, or vice-versa? - Child Myths Blog via Psychology Today - "As many readers may know, one of the ideas about autism promulgated by Andrew Wakefield and other anti-vaccine proponents is that autistic behavior is a response to gastrointestinal problems, and that those problems may be caused by the actions of vaccines in the digestive tract."

Posted February 22, 2010

* ►February 22, 2010 - What editorial writers are saying about autism study retraction - The Lancet in February retracted a 1998 study that incorrectly linked the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism. - www.ama-assn.org

* ►February 22, 2010 - Temple Grandin on Vaccines -- If There's a Risk, "Space Them Out." - Age of Autism

* ►February 22, 2010 - The You Docs Tip of the Day: Should you get your kids vaccinated? - By Michael Rozen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D. - King Features Syndicate via Idaho Statesman - "As if there aren't enough debates about raising kids, to vaccinate or not is one of the thorniest. Back in 1998, a study in The Lancet suggested that the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine (MMR) was linked to autism. It ignited an emotional debate that scared scores of parents right out of the doctor's office, refusing to let their kids get the vaccine."

►February 22, 2010 - Real life lessons - The Ottawa Citizen - "Yet it's often difficult for ordinary people to quantify these risks, and too often our judgments are based on emotions rather than calculations. The misplaced hysteria, thankfully now receding, over the health risks of vaccines was particularly destructive. ... Overreacting caused damage that could have been avoided, just as it did with the MMR vaccine hoax."

►February 22, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield's Autism Organization? - Left Brain/Right Brain

►February 22, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield: Destined for even more disrepute - Respectful Insolence via ScienceBlogs

* ►February 21, 2010 - Wakefield Moving into New Leadership Role in Autism Community, Leaving Thoughtful House. By Dan Olmsted - "Wakefield expressed optimism that by working with the support of a larger set of autism organizations he would be able to focus attention back on the exploding population of affected children and their families, 'which is where it belongs', he emphasized. 'I have always followed the principle that good medicine, and ultimately good science, begins and ends with the patient. We need to remember that the purpose of medical science is not to serve the medical industry but rather the interests of the patients the industry serves.'"

* ►February 21, 2010 - Counterfeit Law: And They Think They Have Got Away With It By Martin Walker - Age of Autism

* ►February 21, 2010 - Max Clifford manages his own PR as Wakefield spin campaign is derailed - Brian Deer reports on a story that was not to be - http://briandeer.com

* ►Nailed:  Dr Andrew Wakefield and the MMR vaccine fraud - Summary of Brian Deer's investigation into a threat to children's health (includes video) - http://briandeer.com

Posted February 21, 2010

* ►February 21, 2010 - Shot nerves - Effects of the anti-vaccine movement - The doctor who launched the modern anti-vaccine movement acted "dishonestly and irresponsibly," Britain's General Medical Council has ruled. - Athens Banner-Herald - "But are we recovering? Anti-vaccination groups have popped up like toadstools after rain (there are more than 180 on the Web), while older ones such as the National Vaccine Information Center were reinvigorated. For the most part, these groups have had only a marginal effect on national vaccination rates, but they have encouraged localized boycotts of immunization. In one Washington county, 27 percent of children had vaccination exemptions in 2006-07. The result has been a resurgence of diseases gone so long that some doctors don't even recognize them. And children die because of it."

* ►February 21, 2010 - CDC on Vaccines and Autism Describes "Concerns" Not "Case Closed" - Age of Autism - "From the CDC website on Autism. It seems vaccines have not been ruled out, as the media and others continue to tell us. http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/facts.html"

* ►February 6, 2010 - The Lancet's MMR-Autism Link Retraction: The Other Side - video - YouTube - "LISTEN to the entire interview with Vaccine Expert Dr. Sherri Tenpenny at http://www.blogtalkradio.co...

* ►February 4, 2010 - Journal Retracts Autism Paper - video - YouTube

Posted February 20, 2010

* ►February 20, 2010 - Corrections and clarifications - The Guardian, UK - "Andrew Wakefield was said in a story to have refused to attend the General Medical Council's hearing over research findings said by him to link the MMR vaccine to bowel disease and autism. This was incorrect. He did, with counsel, attend the GMC hearing; the day he did not attend was when the GMC issued its finding that he acted dishonestly and irresponsibly (MMR vaccine doctor quits autism centre, 19 February, page 12)."

►February 20, 2010 - It’s official, Dr. Krigsman to leave Thoughtful House - Left Brain/Right Brain

* ►February 19, 2010 - Please sign a petition in defense of Dr. Wakefield: From Dr. David Berger, MD  Wholistic Pediatrics - Raising Healthy Kids Naturally

* ►February 19, 2010 - Doctor at centre of MMR row quits his U.S. clinic job - Daily Mail, UK

* ►February 19, 2010 - Life Among the 'Yakkity Yaks' - The renowned inventor on how the insights she gained from her own autism fueled her career. - The Wall Street Journal - "... earlier this month Britain's esteemed medical journal, The Lancet, formally retracted its 1998 paper that linked vaccinations to autism. That paper, whose primary author was Dr. Andrew Wakefield, studied 12 children who exhibited autistic behaviors. The authors suggested they were caused by the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. The paper set off a firestorm, fueling the antivaccine movement perhaps best associated with the actress Jenny McCarthy, whose son is autistic. 'Scientifically, there's still some things to be done,' Ms. Grandin says. Scientists need to study 'the kids where they seem to have language and then they lose it at 18 months to two years of age.' She adds: 'I've talked to too many parents that have talked to me about regressions that I can't just pooh-pooh that off.'"

►February 19, 2010 - 14 Monkeys Revisited: Reactions to Wakefield Withdrawal - Left Brain/Right Brain

►February 19, 2010 - Wakefield leaves US clinic - February 19, 2010 - The Great Beyond Blog via Nature.com

* ►February 19, 2010 - Dispatch: Whelan, Horton, and Conspiracists on Wakefield; FDA on Asthma; Mug Thugs  - American Council on Science and Health - "Dr. Horton Blames You, Everyone Else - In light of The Lancet's recent retraction of Dr. Wakefield's 1998 study linking the MMR vaccine to autism, NPR interviewed Dr. Richard Horton, the journal's editor, in order to determine how such an egregious paper was allowed to be published in the first place. Dr. Horton muses, 'This was a system failure. We failed, I think the media failed, I think government failed, I think the scientific community failed. And we all have to very critically examine what part we played in this.'"

►February 19, 2010 - MMR-row doctor Andrew Wakefield quits US clinic job - PA News via The Independent, UK

►February 18, 2010 - Dr. Krigsman “steps down” from position at Thoughtful House? - Left Brain/Right Brain

* ►February 5, 2010 - A Shot of Reality - The week, The Lancet formally retracted a deeply flawed study that suggested a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. The 1998 study has provided fuel for the anti-vaccine movement for years. The Lancet's editor Richard Horton describes how this debacle has forever changed the way the journal will deal with the scientific community and the media. - transcript (includes audio) - On The Media

Posted February 19, 2010

* ►February 19, 2010 - World-Herald editorial: Wrong conclusion on vaccine, autism - The Omaha World-Herald - "The denouncement of Wakefield’s work won’t likely convince many true believers of the wrongheadedness of their ideas. But it is, at least, another point on the side of truth."

►February 19, 2010 -  Debate over vaccines divides autism community - letters - USA Today - "Pediatricians now spend their time reassuring parents that the MMR vaccine (for measles, mumps and rubella) does not cause autism. There are still some fearful parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, and the number of measles cases is beginning to rise. The 'anti-vaccineites,' as comedian Jerry Seinfeld might call them, see their side of the debate as a call to action a way to protect others. Yet, all it has done is create anxiety in parents rattled by disturbing statistics."

* ►February 19, 2010 - Experts weigh in on retraction of autism study - UNH The New Hampshire - "[Dr. Rae] Sonnenmeier said that she hopes that the official retraction of this study will finally put to rest some of the misconceptions about autism and vaccines. She said she also understands that this subject may still be sensitive for many parents, especially if they chose not to have their children vaccinated. She hopes the retraction of the Lancet study provides valuable information for people with autism and their parents and caregivers."

►February 19, 2010 - Was Dr. Wakefield the complainant in his own GMC case? - Left Brain/Right Brain

►February 19, 2010 - Kristin Jordan Shamus: Some good from vaccine controversy - Detroit Free Press via Livingston Daily

►February 19, 2010 - Dr Andrew Wakefield Resigns From Thoughtful House, Texas - American-Statesman via The One Click Group

* ►February 19, 2010 - MMR vaccine doctor Andrew Wakefield quits autism centre - Controversial medic steps down from facility he founded in Texas - The Guardian, UK

* ►February 18, 2010 - Disgraced MMR-scare doctor Andrew Wakefield quits US clinic he founded - The Times, UK - "The Thoughtful House Centre for Children in Austin, Texas, set up by Dr Wakefield in 2005 with the support of celebrity backers, confirmed to The Times today that the gastroenterologist had left its employment."

* ►February 18, 2010 - British doctor resigns as head of Austin autism center - Dr. Andrew Wakefield, defending his medical license in England, directed Thoughtful House Center for Children. - Austin American-Statesman - "Parents who brought their children to the clinic said they saw him as a persecuted hero whose staff helped their children improve. The parents said they believe in the theory he advanced in the Lancet paper — that some children might develop a form of autism and gastrointestinal disease from exposure to the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine."

* ►February 18, 2010 - Beleaguered British doctor resigns from Austin autism center - Salud Blog via Austin American-Statesman

►February 18, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield: Pushed out by the board of directors at Thoughtful House? - Respectful Insolence via ScienceBlogs

►February 18, 2010 - Wakefield resigns from Texas autism centre - Exclusive: the controversial doctor Andrew Wakefield, who sparked a widespread scare about the MMR vaccine, has resigned from the autism centre he founded in Texas. Julian Rush reports. - Channel 4 News

►February 18, 2010 - Doctor Behind Flawed Autism-Vaccine Study Resigns - Disability Scoop

Posted February 18, 2010

* ►February 18, 2010 - Ignore bad science: Vaccinate your child - Chicago Sun-Times - "But too much damage already has been done. Despite its fatal flaws, Wakefield's research touched off a decline in child immunization rates in Britain, and it has become the basis for stubborn conspiracy theories in this country about childhood vaccines. Immunization rates in the U.S. remain high, but it's troubling that a greater number of parents are exempting their children from vaccination for nonmedical reasons."

* ►February 17, 2010 - Scandalous science: Scientists cheating on data - Medill Reports Chicago, Northwestern University - "Peer-reviewed science journal retractions have increased tenfold over the past two decades, according to an exclusive Thomson Reuters data analysis for the London-based Times Higher Education in August 2009. This suggests that “people are more willing to report problems in their research,” Fanelli said, calling the trend a good sign."

Posted February 17, 2010

* ►February 17, 2010 - The case for vaccines - Yale Daily News - "Understandably, families of autistic patients and autism advocates are frustrated that there remains a lack of understanding about autism, a developmental disorder with no cure that affects a person’s ability to communicate and socialize. But anti-vaccine advocates have taken advantage of this knowledge vacuum to draw a causal link between the MMR vaccine and autism because the first vaccine shot is usually given at the same age that the disorder is diagnosed."

* ►February 17, 2010 - Letter: MMR jab and privacy - Shropshire Star  - "Many people made a hero of Dr Wakefield and his unmasking makes them look like fools so they protest even louder that he was right. Mr Reid hedges his bets and believes Dr Wakefield 'may or may not be correct' Another conspiracy theory develops. Let’s have an inquiry and nail Mr Blair! -- Dr Michael Kirk"

* ►February 17, 2010 - Michael Fumento: The damage done on vaccinations - National Post - "The doctor who launched the modern anti-vaccine movement acted “dishonestly and irresponsibly,” Britain’s General Medical Council has ruled. But fear not. Dr. Andrew Wakefield is still a hero to his many acolytes. And others, with curious credentials, fight on to terrify parents into denying their children vaccines."

* ►February 16, 2010 - GMC Damning Wakefield Verdict Does Not Address Autism-Vaccine Validity - Alliance for Human Research Protection - "Given multiple prior investigations of Dr. Wakefield's 1998 paper, why did it take the Lancet editors 12 years to discover a lack of proper IRB approval? Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been a lightening rod for attacks by vaccine promoters ever since he published an article (Lancet, 1998) raising the possibility-- though not claiming a finding of a causal link--between the onset of children's chronic intestinal inflammation and pervasive developmental disorder following vaccination with the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. He wrote, 'We have identified a chronic enterocolitis in children that may be related to neuropsychiatric dysfunction. In most cases, onset of symptoms was after measles, mumps, and rubella immunisation. Further investigations are needed to examine this syndrome and its possible relation to this vaccine.' During these twelve years Dr. Wakefield has been pilloried for daring to suggest that the MMR vaccine may not be safe. During the same period, Dr. Wakefield published 32 peer-reviewed articles about children who suffered from both inflammatory bowel disease and severe developmental disorder. See list of publications: http://www.thoughtfulhouse.org/publications.php"

* ►February 16, 2010 - Vaccine Skeptic Dr. Mayer Eisenstein Wants Everyone to Read about Dr. Sherry Tenpenny Discussing Dr. Wakefield Controversy - press release - Homefirst.com via ExpertClick

* ►February 16, 2010 - Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy's "Historic" Study of Vaccines and Autism in Monkeys? Ah ... Never Mind. - BNET Pharma - "Remember that 'crucial' study of 20 monkeys that actors Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy claimed would have “potentially devastating consequences for vaccine makers and public health officials” by linking vaccines to autism? It has just been withdrawn from Neurotoxicology, the journal the authors were hoping to publish it in."

* ►February 16, 2010 - Autism facts and fiction - A study that linked vaccines to autism was recently retracted -- sorting out the facts from fiction of autism. (includes audio) - Public Radio International PRI - "In terms of the supposed causes of autism, vaccines are no longer on the list. This is something Dr. Costello is happy to see. 'I think the Wakefield study ... really caused a lot of fear and panic around the world, and caused a lot of parents to have anxiety about immunizing their children,' she said. 'And it's a real blessing that the paper was retracted.'"

* ►February 15, 2010 - Snyderman calls autism-vaccine link 'bad science' - video - Morning Joe via MSNBC

Posted February 16, 2010

* ►February 16, 2010 - Anti-vaccine studies also threaten homeland security - The Daily Caller - "While hundreds of articles have now reported on The Lancet’s retraction and the anti-vaccine movement’s dangerous impact on childhood diseases, there has been precious little discussion of the threat that anti-vaccine fears pose to our ability to fight bioterrorism. In fact, the dangers in this area may be even greater, and our responsiveness to potential acts of bioterror will depend in part on the ability of homeland security officials to address the challenges posed by the vaccine-autism link."

* ►February 16, 2010 - Opposing view: 'Unjustly accused' - Medical industry seeks to suppress science to protect vaccine profits. - By Mark Blaxill - USA Today - "Anyone convinced that [Dr. Andrew] Wakefield is the problem should ask a simple question: Can you name a single instance of fraud or misconduct by Wakefield, describe it simply without deferring to the authority of some faceless tribunal and defend the evidence to an informed skeptic? You won't succeed. Why? Because the evidence clearly shows there was neither fraud nor misconduct. The parents whose children Wakefield studied never complained, and most have gone public with their support of Wakefield and his colleagues. Why wouldn't they? Their children were treated by Wakefield's colleagues, experts in pediatric gastroenterology, and the children's intestinal symptoms and symptoms of autism improved."

* ►February 16, 2010 - Our view on fighting disease: Vaccine fear-mongering endangers child health - When ‘herd immunity’ declines, deadly illnesses make a comeback.- editorial - USA Today - "The supposed MMR-autism link got a huge boost with a controversial study published by the British medical journal The Lancet in 1998. Though the lead author, surgeon Andrew Wakefield, was careful to say no such link had been proved, the study strongly suggested the possibility. Wakefield's research was widely reported, and the idea caught hold with worried parents."

►February 16, 2010 - Mark Blaxill on Wakefield in USA Today: 'Believe objective science and parents, not the medical industry or the media frenzy" - Age of Autism

* ►February 16, 2010 - Column: Don't listen to hysteria, vaccinate your kids - Oklahoma Daily - "This seems an unfortunate but understandable reaction to the possibility of the MMR vaccine causing autism, but there’s one serious problem: the study is rubbish."

* ►February 16, 2010 - Insights from the Paul Offit Interview, Part II: Blame the Scientific Journal, Not the Media - The Intersection via Discover Magazine

* ►February 16, 2010 - Letter: It is not too late to immunize - The Eagle Tribune - "Despite the delay in The Lancet's correction, it is never too late to be immunized."

* ►February 16, 2010 - Too Busy Too Broke To Teach Autistic Child to Speak? Glossing over Gross. By Bill Welsh - Age of Autism - "It is difficult to express how despondent I felt in London following the verdict at the General Medical Council (GMC) in the case against Dr Andrew Wakefield, and Professors Walker-Smith and Murch."

►February 16, 2010 - Hollywood & Autism: Celebs More Interested In Publicity Than Children’s Health - Big Hollywood Blog - "Not every parent is fighting for a cure.  In fact, there are parents, like my husband and I, fighting for society to accept autism as a disability rather than an illness to be cured."

* ►February 16, 2010 - Many parents still unsure on MMR jab - Irish Health - "One-fifth of parents still have doubts about the safety of the MMR vaccine, despite controversial research linking it to autism having been discredited, our latest viewers' poll has indicated. We asked our readers whether they would allow their children to get the MMR vaccine. While eighty per cent said yes, 14% said no and 6% said whey were not sure. Just over 450 people took part in the poll. ... View the poll results and comments, as well as results of previous polls here"

* ►February 16, 2010 - Two in three children fail to have MMR jab by age 5 - Two thirds of five-year-olds in parts of London have not had the MMR jab, new figures reveal today. - This is London, UK - "Now-discredited research that linked MMR and autism has led to parents boycotting the treatment. ... Richard Halvorsen who runs a vaccine clinic in London said parents were still concerned about the safety of MMR despite the lack of evidence that it causes health problems such as autism."

* ►February 16, 2010 - WaPo: Autism and diet: Many questions to digest By Jennifer LaRue Huget - Age of Autism

* ►February 15, 2010 - Lancet editor reverses himself: MMR and adverse events - Teresa Binstock, Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy via Generation Rescue - "There are two primary issues: Are measles mumps rubella (MMR) vaccinations etiologically significant in some cases of regressive autism? Are MMR vaccinations etiologically significant in the gastrointestinal pathology of some autistic children? Mainstream media would have us believe the answer to each question is no: The MMR is neither a causal factor nor a co-factor in some cases of autism and has no relevance to intestinal pathologies in subgroups of children with autism or one of the other autism-spectrum disorders. However, findings in other peer-reviewed studies are consistent with the idea that MMR vaccinations induce adverse sequelae in some children. "

* ►February 15, 2010 - Desire to control uncontrollable disease leads to even worse consequences - Daily Illini.com University of Illinois - "Anti-vaccine activists, striving to find some conceivable explanation for the psychological mystery of autism, have unsurprisingly rejected the rejection of the Wakefield article. Their continued, willful ignorance knows no bounds. The obstinacy of Jenny McCarthy and her minions is particularly troubling in this case because of the damaging real world effects that their beliefs have created. Other ignorant conspiracy-mongers like the 9/11 “truthers” or the Obama “birthers” are content to confine their toxic rants to internet forums, having come to terms with the fact that their beliefs will have little effect on the outside world."

►February 7, 2010 - Shoddy science put children's lives at risk - A doctor's primary duty is to "first, do no harm." - editorial - The Eagle-Tribune - "Wakefield's paper, published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, linked the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine with bowel troubles and autism in children."

Posted February 15, 2010

►February 15, 2010 - The Top Five Autism Myths - The Takeaway - "Myth #2: MMR causes autism. Perhaps the most damaging in terms of wasted resources and trust is the now defunct myth that the Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine is a cause of autism. The idea was first proposed in a paper by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 in the journal Lancet. It has mercifully been 'fully retracted from the published record' of the very same journal. One wonders what took them so long, after numerous large epidemiological studies around the world failed to find any link.  There is no relationship between MMR vaccine and autism."

* ►February 15, 2010 - MMR plea to parents as autism links dismissed - Walsall Advertiser, UK - "Health chiefs at NHS Walsall have made the fresh plea after a recent retraction of a research paper linking autism to MMR."

* ►February 15, 2010 - Letter: Deadly charge - Topeka Capital Journal - "The charge? That the MMR vaccine causes autism, by reason of a mercury-containing preservative, thimersol. The effect? A precipitous drop in vaccination rates, leading to measles outbreaks. Not to mention the wasted time family physicians and pediatricians spent explaining to worried mothers that the vaccines had been proven safe. ... When I was a boy, we would break thermometers to play with the mercury, which we called quicksilver. We would roll the beads in our hands and coat coins with the stuff. Every time I got a cut or abrasion - which happened a lot because we played outdoors most of the summer - mom would paint the wound with Mercurochrome. The active ingredient? You guessed it, mercury."

* ►February 15, 2010 - Energizing the silent majority for vaccines - SmartPlanet - "Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine researcher (winner of the Jonas Salk Medal for his work on RotaTeq) has finally launched a media tour for his 2008 book “Autism’s False Prophets,” calling on the silent majority of parents to reject fear and vaccinate their kids so they won’t get sick. Offit was unable to tour when his book came out in hardback in 2008 because, at the time, his conclusions were so controversial. Now, since the retraction of a controversial anti-vaccine study by Andrew Wakefield by The Lancet, he’s coming out swinging, on CBS and elsewhere."

* ►February 15, 2010 - Busting Out of Shawshank: Autism and a Tale of Two Andy's By Teresa Conrick - Age of Autism

* ►February 14, 2010 - Dr. Wakefield and The Strange Case of the Censorious Phone Call By Martin Walker - Age of Autism

* ►February 12, 2010 - Pfizer’s Ghostwritten Hormone-Therapy Articles - Why are they not retracted? - The Epoch Times - "It is no secret journal editors prefer taking an article offline or behind an access barrier to jeopardizing ad sales, article-reprint sales, and author relations by admitting error. Nor do academic institutions want to admit they harbor pharma-compliant doctors. According to DIDA documents, New York University’s Lila Nachtigall, M.D., collaborated with Wyeth on many ghostwritten papers. Eight months after Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa revealed the scientific con job, NYU Vice President for Public Affairs Deborah Bohren told the New York Times the university had not investigated because “we have not received a complaint.” Doesn’t a probe from the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee qualify as a complaint?"

* ►April 20, 2007 - MMR Vaccination Rates in the United Kingdom Before 1998 By F.  Edward Yazbak, MD, FAAP - Vaccine Autoimmune Project for Research and Education (VAP) via Vaclib.org - "Conclusion:  Thousands of British parents were not in favor of MMR vaccination before Andrew J. Wakefield published his original study in The Lancet in February 1998. This is a fact."

Posted February 14, 2010

* ►February 14, 2010 - Wakefield Inquisitioners Have Their Day by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO - NewsWithViews.com - "I have a friend in Maine who is a nephrologist. She consults on patients who need dialysis. Just by asking the question, 'When was your last vaccine?' she has found nine patients – most with previously normal kidney function – who developed acute renal failure within two to 28 days of the shot. All but one needed kidney dialysis. All but two have recovered, but to the tune of more than $200,000 in hospital bills -- EACH. We pay and pay and pay for vaccines."

* ►February 14, 2010 - The MMR vaccine scare. - How bad science resulted in suffering and death by Dr. Paul A. Offit - Philadelphia Inquirer

* ►February 14, 2010 - Some good from vaccine controversy - Detroit Free Press

* ►February 14, 2010 - Editorial: Retraction should reassure parents there is no link between vaccines, autism - The Grand Rapids Press Editorial Board via MLive.com

* ►February 14, 2010 - State needs to confront autism epidemic - Albany Times Union - "The Autism Society estimates that the lifetime costs of care for a person with autism is $3.5 million to $4 million. While the autism epidemic continues to grow with no end in sight, public and private resources to treat those it affects are increasingly limited by the current fiscal crisis."

►February 14, 2010 - Vaccination opposition could be putting public at risk (requires subscription) - Newsday

►February 13, 2010 - Another Wakefield paper pulled? - Code for Life via SciBlogs, New Zealand

* ►February 13, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys - Foodconsumer.org

* ►February 12, 2010 - Wakefield's "monkey business" hepatitis B vaccine study withdrawn? - Respectful Insolence via ScienceBlogs

* ►February 11, 2010 - A Note to the Autism at About.com Community - Autism Blog via http://autism.about.com

Posted February 13, 2010

►February 13, 2010 - Parents urged to protect children with MMR jab - Kent News, UK - "Jessica Mookherjee, assistant director of public health at NHS West Kent, said she hoped that trust in the MMR jab would now be restored because cases of the diseases, which can have serious side-effects, have been increasing. Andrew Wakefield, who claimed to have discovered a link between autism and the MMR jab causing widespread fear of the vaccine, has now been labelled a dishonest and irresponsible doctor by the General Medical Council."

* ►February 13, 2010 - Age of Autism Comment of the Week: 2/13 - Age of Autism - "Looks like we have another T-shirt headed to the UK! Our commenter of the week is Jenny Allan on the post, No Parents Ever Complained: Our family's 'Wakefield babe' is now a handsome young man."

* ►February 13, 2010 - UK General Medical Council Told Docs “Commit Fraud for MMR Vaccine Bonuses” - Child Health Safety - "The UK’s General Medical Council issued formal written advice to UK medical doctors to commit fraud on the UK’s National Health Service for personal financial gain. If UK doctors met target levels for vaccinations they qualified for bonus payments.  One way of claiming was to make a false return.  The GMC’s advice was for doctors to file false returns of the numbers of patients who had received the MMR vaccine.  Doctors were advised to take unvaccinated child patients off the patient list temporarily to claim the bonuses but also to ensure the parent agreed, [thereby implicating parents in the fraud]."

* ►February 13, 2010 - Queen honours The Mirror's Dr Miriam Stoppard with OBE - Mirror.co.uk - "Never afraid to tackle controversial issues, Dr Miriam opposed Dr Andrew Wakefield's claim that the MMR kids' jabs caused autism. Last week, 12 years after his claims caused widespread alarm, Dr Wakefield was discredited by the General Medical Council. Dr Miriam says: 'I am incredibly grateful to the Mirror for their help.'"

►February 13, 2010 - Letter: Vaccinate your children - The Daily News Online

* ►February 12, 2010 - Anatomy of a Witch Hunt - Adventures In Autism - "The Lancet and was also on the board of GlaxoSmithKline. Additionally... Paul Offit is an industry spokes person for Merck, that was too long to fit into the chart, so I used the more pejorative, "lap dog". And there is word out this afternoon that another Elsevier journal may be trying to bury the Hep B monkey study that Wakefield worked on, although no word from the journal on this yet. Look at the energy flow in this thing... Props to Dr. Wakefield and his compadres for not backing down under this insane amount of industrial pressure. I mean just look at this billion dollar medical/pharma/media/(arms sales?) unprincipled conglomco machine! Eliot Ness wasn't even up against this big of a beast when he took on the mob. And I have not even included any of the public health infrastructure, or the GMC in this flow chart."

►February 12, 2010 - Sally Beck On HuffPo: Lancet, Richard Horton and Waffling - Age of Autism

* ►February 12, 2010 - Sally Beck: Richard Horton Waffles on Lancet's Wakefield Retraction - The Huffington Post

* ►February 12, 2010 - My First Point of Inquiry Show Is Up–Paul Offit on the Costs of Vaccine Denialism - The Intersection via Discover Magazine - "You can listen here, and I also strongly encourage you to subscribe via iTunes from the same page."

* ►February 12, 2010 - Paul Offit - The Costs of Vaccine Denialism (includes link to MP3) - Point of Inquiry - "Recently, there was another nail in the coffin for vaccine skeptics. The British medical journal The Lancet took the dramatic step of retracting a 1998 paper that lies at the root of modern vaccine denialism.  Authored by a doctor named Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues, it was heavily touted as having uncovered a new cause of autism—the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine, or, the MMR vaccine."

* ►February 12, 2010 - South Africa: Measles Outbreak Spreading - IRIN via allAfrica.com - "The cause of a measles outbreak sweeping South Africa has not as yet been determined, but initial suspicions point to religious objections and unfounded fears that immunizations against the disease increase the risk of autism in children. ...She said The Lancet's decision to retract the Wakefield article was unlikely to sway perceptions either way."

* ►February 12, 2010 - Another Study Refutes Vaccination-Autism Link - Whether measles shot was alone or in combination didn't matter, researchers say - HealthDay via U.S. News & World Report - "In the new study, Polish researchers compared 96 children with autism with 192 children who did not have the disorder, looking for any relationship between measles vaccination and autism. ... The study appears online and will be published in the May print issue of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal."

* ►February 12, 2010 - The Bicker With Wakefield: The Real Reasons Why "Lancet" Was Right to Retract - Child Myths via Psychology Today

* ►February 11, 2010 - A Belated Victory For Vaccine Advocates - ADVANCE for Physician Assistants

* ►February 11, 2010 - Vaccines, autism and The Lancet's retraction - Canadian Medical Association Journal editor Paul Hébert joined us for an online discussion about a British medical journal's retraction of a controversial study linking a vaccine to autism - The Globe and Mail

►February 11, 2010 - Love Your Kids: Have Them Shot - GeekDad Blog via Wired - "The study that sparked twelve years of debate about the dangers of vaccines? It’s bunk."

►February 11, 2010 - Medicos fear measles timebomb - Brisbane Times

* ►February 11, 2010 - Safety, immunogenicity and immediate pain of intramuscular versus subcutaneous administration of a measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine to children aged 11-21 months. - journal article (European Journal of Pediatrics)

* ►February 11, 2010 - gB/MF59 Vaccine in Preventing Cytomegalovirus Infection in Healthy Adolescent Females - Sponsor: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) www.clinicaltrials.gov

►February 11, 2010 - Fulminant myocarditis implicated in cases of pediatric influenza A (H1N1) - Novel influenza A (H1N1) may be more commonly associated with severe forms of myocarditis than previously encountered influenza strains, physicians at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego warned after identifying the first known cases associated with the H1N1 strain in pediatric patients. - Pediatric Supersite

* ►February 11, 2010 - Mumps outbreak totals top 1,500 in New York, New Jersey - A mumps outbreak that began last summer at a summer camp in New York has now affected more than 1,520 people in New York and New Jersey, and may be on the rise, according to a CDC report issued today. - Pediatric Supersite

►February 4, 2010 - Measle vaccine-autism link 'wrong' - A Controversial medical paper which linked the measles vaccine with autism - sparking a worldwide backlash towards immunisation - has been withdrawn. - Daily Telegraph via Herald Sun, Australia

Posted February 12, 2010

* ►February 12, 2010 - Challenge to raise confidence in MMR vaccine - This is Hull and East Riding, UK - "Dr Wendy Richardson, the city's director of public health, says although the uptake of the MMR vaccine is 90 per cent, she is hoping even more children will have the vaccine. It comes after the General Medical Council (GMC) branded Dr Andrew Wakefield 'irresponsible' and 'dishonest' for conducting unnecessary invasive tests of children."

* ►February 11, 2010 - Lancet Disavowal of Autism Vaccine Connection May Lead to More Immunizations - Voice of America

►February 11, 2010 - Dispelling The Vaccine and Autism Myth - WFAA.com - "Bottom line, get your child vaccinated, read good science and pray that more vaccines are developed to prevent disease. It is a matter of life and death."

* ►February 10, 2010 - Journal Retracts Controversial Study Linking MMR Vaccine, Autism - The Lancet's Decision Could Ease Parental Resistance to Vaccination - AAFP News Now

►February 10, 2010 - Why You Should Ignore Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy's Autism Delusions - BNET Pharma Blog - "When Andrew Wakefield’s bogus autism-vaccine study was retracted by The Lancet, after Wakefield himself was the subject of a professional misconduct hearing, two people rushed to his defense: actors Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy."

►February 9, 2010 - Benefits of vaccines should not be in doubt - San Antonio Express-News

►February 9, 2010 - How the false MMR vaccine-autism connection was perpetuated - Sanford University School of Medicine Scope

* ►February 9, 2010 - Healthy Living: Journal retracts autism,vaccine link study - A British medical journal announced Tuesday that it is changing course and retracting a well-known study that linked autism to the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. (includes video) - News10Now.com

►February 3, 2010 - The Shame of the Lancet's Shoddy Autism Study Retraction - BNET Pharma Blog

Posted February 11, 2010
 
* ►February 11, 2010 - No Parent Ever Complained to GMC: Public Statement from Lancet Families Supports The MMR3 (Dr. Wakefield, Prof. Murch, Prof. Walker-Smith.) - Age of Autism

* ►February 11, 2010 - The Wakefield Saga: 2004 All Over Again By Anne Dachel - Age of Autism

* ►February 11, 2010 - Well, well, well: Wakefield a witch-hunt? - The Lancet retracts study connecting vaccines to autism - VUE Weekly

* ►February 11, 2010 - Connie Howard of Vue Weekly: Well, well, well: Wakefield a Witch-Hunt? - Age of Autism

* ►February 11, 2010 - 14 monkeys - Left Brain/Right Brain

* ►February 11, 2010 - The Truth About 9 Anti-Vaccine Studies - Now that the infamous 1998 Lancet study implicating vaccines for causing autism has been retracted, does the anti-vaccination movement have any scientific legs left to stand on? Here, we investigate the scientific merit of some of the other lightning-rod studies from over the last decade that anti-vaccination advocates say back up their claims. - Popular Mechanics

* ►February 10, 2010 - UK “Faked” National Autism Data To Declare MMR Vaccine “Safe” - Child Health Safety

* ►February 10, 2010 - This Might Hurt: A Dose of Politics - The Texas Tribune - "[Editor's note: An earlier version of this story mischaracterized the status of Dr. Wakefield's review by British medical authorities. The GMC will meet again in April to continue its investigation of his practices.]"

* ►February 10, 2010 - Dishonest autism study wreaks far-reaching damage - TheNewsTribune.com Blog

* ►February 10, 2010 - Flawed study linking vaccines to autism retracted (includes video) - KSTP.com

* ►February 10, 2010 - Retraction should allay fears about vaccine causing autism - Kingsport Times-News Online - "Like any medicine, vaccinations can cause mild reactions, but such injections are by far the most effective way to keep children healthy."

* ►February 9, 2010 - Soliman: Clinging to falsehoods, misinformation - NorthJersey.com

* ►February 8, 2010 - Scandals: Political Science and YOU! By Sandy Gottstein - Vaccination News - "We must stop allowing the so-called experts now touted as the sole divining rods to the truth to escape detection and examination.  Conflict of interest questions that only target those who take unpopular or unaccepted positions are wrong, plain and simple.  They neither advance science nor the truth."

►February 6, 2010 - Hippocrates would puke: Doctor hoaxed parents into denying kids vaccine - New York Daily News

* ►February 5, 2010 - Anti-Vaccination Groups Dealt Blow as Lancet Study is Retracted - A 1998 study in The Lancet medical journal that largely launched the dangerous anti-vaccination movement has been officially retracted. Here are the details on the ethical and scientific missteps that eventually lead to the editors pulling this study. - Popular Mechanics

* ►February 3, 2010 - Flawed autism study retracted - Toronto Star via Parentcentral.ca - "'This sends a very strong signal this research is not to be believed,' said Paul Hébert, editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal."

Posted February 10, 2010

* ►February 10, 2010 - Rapid Responses to: Why did the Lancet take so long? - John Stone The unexplained puzzle of the GMC verdict (and reponses to Peter Flegg) - journal article (BMJ)

* ►February 10, 2010 - J. B. Handley: Show Me The Monkeys! By J.B. Handley - Age of Autism

* ►February 10, 2010 - The End of Science History By Martin Walker - Age of Autism

►February 10, 2010 - Autism Retraction - "Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia, Non-specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children" - Education Week

►February 10, 2010 - Debunking study linking vaccinations to autism should help save lives - Royal Oak Daily Tribune

* ►February 10, 2010 - Stolen: Beware the vaccine fearmongers - Summit Daily News

* ►February 10, 2010 - This Might Hurt: A Dose of Politics - The Texas Tribune - "But Wakefield will soon return to Texas, where he oversees a treatment facility for children on the autism spectrum. The Austin-based facility, called Thoughtful House, still states on its website that “research into a possible connection” between autism and the Measles-Mumps-Ruebella vaccine is “ongoing.” And the vocal minority fighting mandated vaccines for fear of their health implications continues its cries against the immunization culture in America — despite the opinions of medical professionals. Immunization advocates hope this will be their year: They'll try once again to expand the state’s vaccination database, and the HPV vaccine, which caused a political mess for Gov. Rick Perry in 2006, will soon come back up for debate. Just as hopeful, however, are the predominantly well-educated, middle-class parents who are pushing for a further examination of the long-term effects of vaccines. Scorned by most doctors, they are organized and driven, and their significant political clout may force lawmakers to takes sides in the tussle between personal freedom and public health."

►February 10, 2010 - Faulty research - Medical journal retracts article that prompted fears of a link between childhood vaccines and autism - The Free Lance-Star via http://fredericksburg.com

* ►February 10, 2010 - Autism and snake oil - Medical Ethics Blog via Healthzone.ca - "For me, one of the most interesting things about the retraction last week by the Lancet of its discredited 1998 study linking vaccines and autism was the consensus that those who have believed the study will continue to have faith in it, despite the retraction."

* ►February 9, 2010 - The dangers of false certainty - We all -- physicians and patients -- must face up to our unavoidable ignorance on medical issues, and still try to make wise decisions - Ottawa Citizen - "Despite the retraction, the damage caused by the article may not have been stemmed. It's been reported that Canadians in the anti-vaccination movement are not convinced by the evidence that there is no proof that vaccines are associated with autism, as the article had wrongly claimed there was. Rather, they want proof that vaccines are not associated with autism and they say there is no such evidence."

* ►February 3, 2010 - How a zealot’s word led us astray on autism - Opinion: Tiny, flawed vaccine study a case study in biased medicine By Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. (includes video) - MSNBC

* ►January 26, 2010 - On Second Looking into the Case of Dr. Andrew J. Wakefield by William Long, MDiv, PhD, JD - AutismOne.org

Posted February 9, 2010

* ►February 9, 2010 - A study linking vaccines to autism is discredited, but a local activist remains a believer - The Capital Times via Madison.com - "'If I had a choice of taking my daughter to any doctor in the world right now, my first choice would be Dr. Andrew Wakefield,' says Madison's Mike Wagnitz, whose 12-year-old daughter, Josie, has autism. Wagnitz, a chemist who specializes in metals analysis, believes that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that still is used in some vaccines, poisoned his daughter and led to her affliction."

►February 9, 2010 - North Kent: Parents assured over safety of MMR vaccine - This is Local London

* ►February 9, 2010 - NORTH KENT: Parents assured over safety of MMR vaccine - News Shopper, UK - " This followed the announcement the paper’s main author, Dr Andrew Wakefield, was ruled by the General Medical Council to have broken research rules. The director of health improvement at NHS West Kent, Dr Declan O’Neill, said: “It is hoped this will bring to an end the saga of anxiety and misinformation triggered by this unethical action."

* ►February 9, 2010 - The allure of snake oil for parents of autistic children - Why desperate people cling to junk science - The Toronto Star - "Dr. Evdokia Anagnostou, a child neurologist at Bloorview Kids Rehab, says parents who have become passionate activists on behalf of their kids with autism should not be too quickly dismissed. "They have managed to bring a relatively uncommon disorder into the forefront," says Anagnostou, who leads a clinical research program in autism at Bloorview. "Money has been allocated to research because of activism, awareness campaigns have been launched because of activism. It has been a huge advantage to the autism community to have parents who are activists." Holden says such families need hope to get them through the struggles of their daily lives, and science so far can offer little in the way of a direct cause-and-effect for autism – as the Wakefield study seemed to. ... Such willingness to believe junk science stems from an overall low scientific literacy, says University of Toronto astronomer and science education expert John Percy. The Internet, he says, feeds people with all sorts of questionable facts and theories but does little to help them put it all together in a rational way. 'The shallowest learning is simply knowing facts,' he says, drawing on writings by the late education theorist Benjamin Bloom. 'The highest is being able to evaluate those facts.'"

* ►February 9, 2010 - The autism/diet connection - The Checkup via Washington Post - "Last week the British medical journal The Lancet formally, and finally, retracted a study it had published in 1998 that loosely linked the measles/mumps/rubella vaccine to the development of autism .  The science behind that study was found to be shoddy, and the researcher has been accused of ethical breaches. Moreover, it planted a fear of vaccination in parents in both Great Britain and the United States. That fear is unlikely to be erased by the retraction of the study."

►February 9, 2010 - Wakefield's research: from The Lancet to Medical Veritas? - Left Brain/Right Brain

►February 9, 2010 - Research on vaccines, autism link takes a hit - Jackson Clarion-Ledger

►February 9, 2010 - Vaccination vindication - opinion - McClatchy-Tribune News Service via Modesto Bee

►February 9, 2010 - Why the refutenik MPs are wrong - Our Pedant column on a topical example of how mixing up the verbs to deny, rebut and refute can be misleading - The Times, UK

* ►February 8, 2010 - Lancet vs. Wakefield - Anthrax Vaccine -- Posts by Meryl Nass, M.D. - "I love the Lancet. I have my own subscription, and it isn't cheap. However, the Lancet took a cheap shot last week, when it retracted a paper on autism by Wakefield et al. immediately following a ruling by the UK's General Medical Counsel."

* ►February 8, 2010 - Measles vaccine can cause encephalopathy 8-9 days post injection/ DHHS - Anthrax Vaccine -- Posts by Meryl Nass, M.D. - "I was hoping to avoid joining the Andrew Wakefield/Lancet fray, but so many inaccurate statements have been published in the last few days that I had to jump in. There is clearcut evidence for a syndrome of brain injury (and sometimes death) occurring after measles vaccine (and not after rubella or mumps vaccines). Who discovered it? DHHS physicians charged with responding to vaccine injury claims for the federal government. Here is the abstract, published in the journal Pediatrics in 1998.  I'd also like to point out that many children with autism have chronic diarrhea and other gastrointestinal problems, and there can be no question that these features are part of the autism syndrome. Some children are born with neurological impairment; some develop it later; but a surprising and statistically significant number developed it 8-9 days after getting their first measles vaccine, and no amount of hand-waving can erase this fact."

* ►February 8, 2010 - Retracting a Medical Journal’s Autism Study - Well Blog via The New York Times

* ►February 8, 2010 - Teresa Binstock Response to Retracting a Medical Journal’s Autism Study - Well Blog via The New York Times - "The original findings of enterocolitis in many but not all autistic children has been replicated several times (eg, 1-3). Furthermore, a month after Wakefield et al was published in The Lancet (Feb 1998), the journal Pediatrics published a study reporting that among various vaccines related to mumps, measles, and rubella, the MMR was by far the most likely to induce neurologic damage or even death. The abstract of that study is available free online and merits perusal (4). The speculation of an autism-MMR connection as offered by Wakefield et al 1998 was not as far afield as The Lancet editor would have us believe."

* ►February 8, 2010 - Dr. Meryl Nass Response to to Retracting a Medical Journal’s Autism Study - Well Blog via The New York Times - "Why is Lancet retracting the paper now? The editors list two reasons: the children were not 'consecutively referred' and the studies weren’t approved by the local ethics committee. I am astonished it took 12 years for Lancet to discover the lack of IRB approval. Sounds fishy. Lancet is upset the children were not 'consecutively referred'? Isn’t that reaching a bit? JAMA recently published a paper claiming that 10% of papers in Lancet and similar journals are written by ghost authors. Shouldn’t those papers be retracted? Isn’t faked authorship more important to root out than lack of consecutive referral, whatever that means?"

* ►February 8, 2010 - The autism-vaccines myth: The impact of the media - Presenting controversy as two equal views is usually sloppy reporting. - The Radical Behaviorist via Psychology Today

* ►February 8, 2010 - Medical journal retracts article on autism--MMR link - Houston Chronicle

* ►February 8, 2010 - Will the False Vaccine-Autism Link Finally Be Broken? - DailyFinance

* ►February 8, 2010 - Remaining open to scrutiny keeps science credible - The StarPhoenix - "By failing to vigorously defend rigorous standards for research, then taking so long to admit to the error -- and then doing so only when it was clear that another report was about to be published that would be highly embarrassing -- the Lancet hurt science. Its actions only serve the interests of pseudoscientists, conspiracy theorists and Internet bloggers, who are dedicated to proving everything from the idea smoking isn't harmful to denying climate change and insisting the Earth is only 6,000 years old."

►February 8, 2010 - Debunking vaccine link to autism - letter - Centraljersey.com - "This retraction, and the discrediting of the lead author, validates what we at Eden Autism Services have long believed: vaccines do not cause autism."

►February 8, 2010 - Study disputes link between vaccines and autism - Wisconsin vaccination rates for measles, mumps and rubella are higher than the national average, despite long-standing worries over whether such shots were safe - Superior Telegram

►February 8, 2010 - A study repudiated - There is no scientific evidence that vaccinations cause autism. In fact, vaccinations save lives. - editorial - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Posted February 8, 2010

* ►February 8, 2010 - The Conflicting Views of Dr. Ben Goldacre and the Wakefield Affair - Ben Goldacre The conflicting views of Dr Ben Goldacre and the Wakefield affair: dumbing the public down. By John Stone - Age of Autism

* ►February 8, 2010 - Rapid Responses to: Why did the Lancet take so long? - journal article (BMJ)

* ►February 8, 2010 - There's still no cure for bogus science - letters - New York Post - "As the proud grandfather of a lovable, 10-year-old, nonverbal boy who was diagnosed with autism, I can assure [Dr. Elizabeth] Whelan that connecting my grandson's autism and his intestinal problems was no 'bizarre assumption.' The widespread rumors of a vaccine-autism link will prevail because, after decades of opportunity to do so, the scientific community cannot explain why one in every 110 children is being diagnosed with autism, and why thousands of them will require treatment for gastrointestinal problems."

* ►February 8, 2010 - What do vaccine sceptics have in common with climate change deniers? - Croakey the Crikey health blog - "The life and death of the MMR-autism theory has been less about the science than about the man himself and deeper divides. Wakefield’s fall from grace has been particularly dramatic. He was masterful at casting himself as the brave whistleblower, willing to put his career as a doctor on the line in the name of ‘truth’. He was urged on by parents who found a champion for their deeply held views and an anti-vaccine lobby always seeking opportunities to advance their cause."

►February 8, 2010 - Best. Conspiracy. Theory. Ever. - Respectful Insolence via ScienceBlogs

►February 8, 2010 - Remaining open to scrutiny keeps science credible - StarPhoenix - "The British medical journal Lancet's belated but welcome admission last week that it had been wrong to publish a badly flawed study on autism came too late for countless thousands who suffered needlessly from diseases that could have gone the way of smallpox."

►February 8, 2010 - U.K. journal retracts vaccine-autism link - AP via The Durango Herald

►February 8, 2010 - We might err, but science is self-correcting - If claims about climate change need to be debunked, you can rely on scientists to do it. Scepticism is what we are all about - The Times, UK

* ►February 7, 2010 - Scientist: Autism Paper Had Catastrophic Effects - transcript (includes audio) - NPR - "The prestigious British medical journal Lancet took a rare step this week: It retracted a 1998 paper that sparked a firestorm about potential links between vaccines and autism. That paper has been a bane to Dr. Paul Offit, co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine and chief of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. Offit tells host Guy Raz why he thinks the paper was a disaster for parents seeking answers about autism."

* ►February 7, 2010 - A reality check on autism and vaccines - editorial - San Francisco Chronicle - "Many worried and angry parents of an autistic child believe that vaccines may cause the disease. But it's pure myth - disproved by numerous studies and now a final slap from a British journal disowning a report that started the dangerous nonsense. Will these parents accept reality - and allow their children to receive shots against a dozen or more illnesses? And will fringe groups that play to fears of autism give up their indefensible claims?"

* ►February 7, 2010 - Kozlowski: Following emotions can be dangerous - The Pitt News - "This whole situation causes problems. Whether or not the charges of the Council are valid, trust in peer-reviewed journals is now less than absolute. With this comes the possible danger that somebody who says something unpopular or aberrant will be regarded as less credible, regardless of what the data suggests. Occasionally, the people who are right get laughed at — much like the way that those who suggested that a bacterium caused stomach ulcers were ridiculed before they won the Nobel Prize for their work. There is also the problem of tighter regulation of peer-review. If The Lancet and other major scientific publications turn away controversial publications, there is a possibility that voices might not be heard, causing us to lose out on important developments."

►February 7, 2010 - Lancet Retraction Sparks Continuing Controversy - Foodconsumer.org

►February 7, 2010 - Medical Update: UK Journal Retracts Flawed Vaccine Study - Israel National News

* ►February 6, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys; A statement by Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey - NaturalNews.com - "When it comes to vaccines, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey get it. They see how the pharma industry is engineering a campaign to silence Dr. Andrew Wakefield in order to suppress the publication of startling new evidence linking vaccines to severe neurological damage. At great risk to their professional careers, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey have found the courage to dare to tell the truth about vaccines and autism. Despite the vicious attacks by the pro-vaccine zealots who will stop at nothing to destroy anyone who challenges conventional vaccine mythology, McCarthy and Carrey have issued a powerful, inspired statement that reveals the truth behind the Big Pharma smear campaign that is intent on destroying the reputation of Dr. Andrew Wakefield before he can publish the final results of this important new study."

* ►February 6, 2010 - Autism Findings Retracted - The New American - "Actress Holly Robinson Peete remembers, 'When my son was two-and-a-half, he was just recovering from an ear infection and had been on antibiotics, therefore his immune system was suppressed. He had already missed several appointments for his vaccination so his pediatrician wanted to catch him up on all of them in the same day. Althrough I asked if he’d consider waiting or breaking up the cocktail, which contains three viruses, he laughed me out of the office and belittled me. I firmly believe that it took my son to a place of no return and his body could not handle it. He had a violent reaction with convulsions and then he stopped talking and slipped into a silence. He no longer said, 'Hi, Mommy,' he no longer responded to his name and he no longer made eye contact.”

* ►February 4, 2010 - Junk science kills - Who'll apologize to dead kids? - New York Post - "Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan is president of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH.org)."

►February 3, 2010 - Vaccine 'autistic link' KO'd - Study 'fatally flawed' - New York Post

Posted February 7, 2010

►February 7, 2010 - Lord William Rees-Mogg on Sound Money, Economics and Reform - Right Side News - "Pre-Internet the suspicions of these parents would not have been broadcast beyond their immediate peer-group via blurry faxes and Xerox copies, etc. But today thanks to modern electronic communication, if a thing seems truthful and enough people feel strongly about it, then it will be written about regardless of mainstream media gatekeepers. This increasingly terrifies the elite, in our opinion. Wakefield's crucifixion - an inaccurate one at that - will likely have no impact on the debate over vaccines and autism except to further polarize the debate."

►February 7, 2010 - Autism and Vaccination Relation Research Weighed Down - TopNews

►February 7, 2010 - Consequences of a faulty study - editorial - TheChronicleHerald.ca

* ►February 7, 2010 - Author of Children With Starving Brains Supports Dr. Andrew Wakefield in Letter & Petition - Age of Autism - "Below is the letter attached to a petition from Dr. Jaquelyn McCandless, known to many in the biomedical world as a Grandparent/Physician Warrior."

* ►February 7, 2010 - The Duty To Censor Wakefield - Letter to Neurotoxicology - David N. Brown via Left Brain/Right Brain

►February 7, 2010 - Letter to Jim Moody: Halt libels against GMC witness! - Left Brain/Right Brain

* ►February 7, 2010 - Lancet's Retraction of Wakefield Paper Like Gasoline on a Fire - Autism Blog via http://autism.about.com - "McCarthy and Carrey make it clear that they will be actively promoting their perspective in the weeks and months to come.  In fact, the biomedically-oriented Autism One conference planned for May, where Jenny and Jim will be keynote speakers, will also feature Dr. Andrew Wakefield. Look for much more information to come about this conference and its outcomes.  Already, its promotional material is headlined 'The World Changes in May.'  Promises are made of surprise announcements.  And this rather ominous statement is included on the conference website's front page:  Together we will redefine autism as a biomedical condition that can be treated and prevented. The past has been unkind to autism. The future is ours. We'll see you in Chicago."

* ►February 7, 2010 - Autism retract sparks furor among docs, advocates - Boston Herald - “I am absolutely certain that environmental factors are 100 percent responsible for the rise in the autism rate. Mercury and vaccines are among the primary suspects,” said Cambridge resident Mark Blaxill, director of SafeMinds, a leading nonprofit founded to investigate and publicize claims that mercury in medical products poses risks to kids. “Andy is a fine man and a terrific scientist,” said Blaxill, whose daughter has autism. “This is nothing more than a very well organized and systematic effort to intimidate and suppress the science.”

* ►February 6, 2010 - Dr. Andrew Wakefield and the Distasteful Practice of the Ignorant “Pile On” - Louise Kuo Habakus via www.lifehealthchoices.com

* ►February 6, 2010 - Fiona Phillips: Your Shout - MMR vaccine - Mirror.co.uk - "Hundreds of you contacted me following last week’s article on MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield. Here are just three typical responses... What is it with MMR? By comparison, look what’s happening with the Hepatitis B vaccine. Many medical workers were strongly urged to have this vaccine and have been left damaged and unable to work. No less than 150 MPs are backing a compensation scheme for them! All drugs have side-effects, so why do “they” claim MMR is absolutely safe?"

►February 6, 2010 - Putting Wakefield in a Larger Context - Mike the Mad Biologist via ScienceBlogs - "Category: F...ing Morons • Vaccination"

►February 6, 2010 - Doctor is accused of manipulating studies saying that vaccinations can lead to autism - Examiner.com

►February 6, 2010 - In a nutshell: Recanting well and good, but damage already done - Winnipeg Free Press

►February 6, 2010 - Before Miami Super Bowl weekend event, Jenny McCarthy & Jim Carrey share statement on autism doctor - Examiner.com

►February 6, 2010 - The Terrorists Of Health Part II: Wake-Up Call To The Jihadists - Like some modern-day snake oil salesman. - Overcoming Pain Blog via Psychology Today - "It was certainly satisfying to see the censure of Dr. Andrew Wakefield last month by the British General Medical Council. This man and his colleagues were one more example of the great harm the Terrorists of Health can visit upon the public. Whereas the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Jihadists hurt innocent patients with their selling of ineffective supplements and their advocating of costly lab analyses that have no basis in science (but both of which enhance the income of those who provide such things), the impact of a Dr. Wakefield is much more deadly."

* ►February 5, 2010 - Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy Jump Back Into Vaccination Debate - E! Online

* ►February 5, 2010 - Woe Is AHRQ - The American Spectator - "This week the British medical journal Lancet  officially retracted an already discredited article it published by Andrew Wakefield which falsely claimed vaccines caused autism. ...  At the same time, President Obama increased the budget of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) -- charged with developing information about what are the best and most cost-effective medical treatments -- by $640 million, including money for anti-vaccine groups who regard Wakefield as a hero and push studies examining the effectiveness of treatments and diets based on Wakefield's study for reversing or curing autism."

►February 5, 2010 - Vaccines and autism - Retraction should put an end to fears of a link - editorial - Durango Herald

►February 5, 2010 - Study linking autism to MMR vaccine retracted - Myfoxal.com

►February 5, 2010 - Let's check in with the skeptics! (They're way more fun than the credulous) - Booster Shots Blog via Los Angeles Times - "This week's topics include energy healing, antidepressants and Andrew Wakefield."

►February 5, 2010 - Is this as close as Private Eye ever gets to a mea culpa? - Greenslade Blog via The Guardian, UK - "Not one but three letters in Private Eye this week take the fortnightly magazine to task over its coverage of Dr Andrew Wakefield and the MMR vaccine."

►February 5, 2010 - Autism and vaccines: Bogus study hurts research - Star-Ledger Editorial Board via NJ.com

* ►February 4, 2010 - Journal Retracts Study Backing Vaccine-Autism Link - This week, the British medical journal the Lancet formally retracted a 1998 study that helped set off the debate over the safety of vaccines and whether they may be connected to later diagnoses of autism in children. - PBS NewsHour

►February 4, 2010 - Questioning Wakefield Lancet-Vaccine Retraction - The Daily Bell

►February 4, 2010 - Vaccines and Autism? A House of Cards Tumbles Down - Jeff Toney via NJ.com

►February 4, 2010 - Study linking Autism and MMR vaccine retracted - Examiner.com

►February 4, 2010 - Study Retracted Linking Autism to Vaccines - CNN transcript via Bioscience Technology

►February 4, 2010 - TX Pediatrician: Goodbye MMR Vaccine Study (2010) Dr. Ari Brown - Basil & Spice

* ►February 3, 2010 - Vaccine-Autism Link Broken - The Atlantic Wire

►February 3, 2010 - Autism Vaccines - video - http://localnewscomesfirst.com

►February 3, 2010 - Study Linking Measles Vaccine & Autism Discredited - Poynter Online

*►February 2, 2010 - Retraction Of Some Research Doesn’t Deter Parent Who Believes In Link Between Vaccine And Autism (includes video) - WSAV.com - "The topic of vaccines and autism is always controversial and the retraction on Tuesday of Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s study will likely do little to calm it.  Kim Spencer is the parent of an autistic child who also works in a local pediatrician’s office.  She doesn’t mince words when she talks about what she believes was the cause of her son’s autism.  She lays the blame on a vaccine he was given at the age of two…and nothing that’s happened regarding Dr. Wakefield’s work is going to change her mind."

* ►February 2, 2010 - Lancet Retracts Autism, MMR Vaccine Study - video - WISN via YouTube

►January 30, 2010 - Anti-Vaccine Doctor "Acted Unethically" - Daily Kos

* ►Issue 34, 2010 - Polly's Piece - Discredited Defamation: The Fallacious Case against Dr. Andrew Wakefield by Polly Tommey (pdf) - The Autism File

* ►Issue 34, 2010 - Gastrointestinal pathology in Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Venezuelan Experience by Lenny G. González, MD - The Autism File

* ►Issue 34, 2010 - The Devil's in the Detail by Andrew J. Wakefield, FRCS FRCPath (pdf) - The Autism File

* ►Issue 33, 2010 - That Paper by Andrew J. Wakefield, FRCS FRCPath (pdf) - The Autism File

* ►Issue 31, 2010 - On Second Looking into the Case of Dr. Andrew J. Wakefield by William Long, MDiv, PhD, JD (pdf) - The Autism File

Posted February 6, 2010

* ►February 6, 2010 - Jim Carrey & Jenny McCarthy Get Serious on Autism, Scientific Censorship and Monkeys - Entertainment Tonight Local 15

* ►February 6, 2010 - Parents with autistic kids must have a voice over MMR vaccine - Mirror.co.uk - "On Wednesday I was on Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show where I had the displeasure of being shouted down by journalist Cristina Odone who said that the MMR vaccine is indisputably safe for all toddlers and that parents of children with autism are 'hysterical'. Another typical response from the bullying might of the pro-vaccine army. It is simply irresponsible to assert that MMR suits all children and that anyone who disagrees is a hysterical parent. Some children have an allergic reaction to peanuts. Most don’t. Does that mean you feed peanuts to all children?"

* ►February 5, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys - A statement from Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey - Dr. Andrew Wakefield is being discredited to prevent an historic study from being published that for the first time looks at vaccinated versus unvaccinated primates and compares health outcomes, with potentially devastating consequences for vaccine makers and public health officials. - Generation Rescue

* ►February 5, 2010 - A Statement from Jenny McCarthy & Jim Carrey: Andrew Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys - Age of Autism - "Dr. Wakefield is the co-author, along with eight other distinguished scientists from institutions like the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Washington, of a set of studies that explore the topic of vaccinated versus unvaccinated neurological outcomes using monkeys. The first phase of this monkey study was published three months ago in the prestigious medical journal Neurotoxicology, and focused on the first two weeks of life when the vaccinated monkeys received a single vaccine for Hepatitis B, mimicking the U.S. vaccine schedule. The results, which you can read for yourself HERE, were disturbing. Vaccinated monkeys, unlike their unvaccinated peers, suffered the loss of many reflexes that are critical for survival. Dr. Wakefield and his scientific colleagues are on the brink of publishing their entire study, which followed the monkeys through the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule over a multi-year period. It is our understanding that the difference in outcome for the vaccinated monkeys versus the unvaccinated controls is both stark and devastating."

* ►February 5, 2010 - Jenny: Autism Study Retraction 'Censorship' - This week, the medical journal Lancet fully retracted the 1998 study linking the MMR vaccine to autism, citing "incorrect" elements of research. Now, the anti-vaccine movement's most famous poster parents, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey, are calling the retraction an act of censorship. - Momlogic.com

* ►February 5, 2010 - The Lancet retraction of vaccine autism paper condemned as Big Pharma conspiracy to discredit Dr. Wakefield - NaturalNews.com - "To ensure the profitability of that future, Big Pharma needed to destroy Dr. Wakefield's credibility. So they paraded a long list of pro-vaccine doctors and drug pushers in front of the media to accomplish essentially the same thing that was accomplished against Fleischmann and Pons in 1989 -- the obliteration of their credibility in order to suppress the truth."

* ►February 5, 2010 - Twelve Years Later, the Truth about Vaccines and Autism Posted by Albert Fuchs, M.D.  - The Jewish Journal of greater L.A

* ►February 5, 2010 - Michael Wagnitz: Questions retraction of autism-vaccine link - letter - Wisconsin State Journal - "In the Wednesday news brief "Journal retracts study on autism-vaccine link," it said the 'parents who fervently believe that their children's mental problems are a result of vaccination' will not be swayed despite a 'wealth of scientific studies that have not found any link between vaccination and autism'. Since when is statistical manipulation (think: tobacco science) done by the manufacturers, promoters and administrators of a product (vaccines) referred to as 'scientific studies?' They can revoke, condemn, retract, de-license or do whatever they want to do to this researcher and his work. The bottom line is that almost every gastrointestinal examination that's been done on any autistic child (in obvious pain) has shown severe damage to the GI tract. This condition is medically treatable and after treatment the child's well-being dramatically improves. The lesson here: If medical professionals try to help an autistic child injured by vaccines, they will be destroyed."

►February 5, 2010 - Journal's delayed autism mea culpa can't repair the damage it has caused - Vancouver Sun

►February 5, 2010 - Autism study retraction opens conversation (includes audio) - Wisconsin Radio Network

►February 5, 2010 - Lessons of the MMR retraction - Health Blog via Financial Times

►February 5, 2010 - "Building bridges" to the leaders of the anti-vaccine movement? - Respectful Insolence via ScienceBlogs

►February 5, 2010 - Denying vaccines, evolution, and … dialog? - Thoughts from Kansas via ScienceBlogs

►February 5, 2010 - Be guided by science: Study linking vaccines, autism is debunked - Palm Beach Post

►February 5, 2010 - A Welcome Retraction- editorial (requires registration) - The New York Times - "What is indisputable is that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. We hope that The Lancet’s belated retraction will finally lay this damaging myth about autism and vaccines to rest."

►February 5, 2010 - Britain's Health Still Suffers From Anti-Vaccine Panic - AOL News

* ►February 5, 2010 - Rapid Responses to: MMR and other controversies - 'The Next MMR' and the present one - how not to restore trust John Stone - journal article (BMJ) 

* ►February 4, 2010 -  The autism-vaccine lie that won't die - The media trumpeted an irresponsible study, ensuring that its nasty legacy thrives By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. - Salon

* ►February 4, 2010 - Report linking autism to vaccine retracted - Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - "[Dr. Edna] DeVries said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention remains the best source for vaccine information. 'It is going to take a lot to repair the bad information or misperception that is out there,' she said."

►February 4, 2010 - MMR Vaccine Study: A Lesson for Us All - Child Health 411 via WebMD

* ►February 4, 2010 - Why you should care about vaccines and autism - North by Northwestern

* ►February 3, 2010 - Will the Vaccine-Autism Saga Finally End? - Not likely. You can retract a scientific paper, but not a mass movement. - science progress - "... I believe we need some real attempts at bridge-building between medical institutions—which, let’s admit it, can often seem remote and haughty—and the leaders of the anti-vaccination movement. We need to get people in a room and try to get them to agree about something—anything. We need to encourage moderation, and break down a polarized situation in which the anti-vaccine crowd essentially rejects modern medical research based on the equivalent of conspiracy theory thinking, even as mainstream doctors just shake their heads at these advocates’ scientific cluelessness. Vaccine skepticism is turning into one of the largest and most threatening anti-science movements of modern times. Watching it grow, we should be very, very worried—and should not assume for a moment that the voice of scientific reason, in the form of new studies or the debunking of old, misleading ones, will make it go away."

* ►February 2, 2010 - Scandals: The GMC Scores a Victory! “Religion” 1, Science 0! - Sandy Gottstein via Vaccinationnews.com

* ►October 2009 - Title: Delayed Acquisition of Neonatal Reflexes in newborn Primates receiving A Thimerosal-containing Hepatitis B Vaccine: influence of gestational age and Birth weight (pdf) - journal article (NeuroToxicology)

►Complete Coverage: The autism-vaccine debate (requires subscription) - Newsday

Posted February 5, 2010

►February 5, 2010 - Vaccination-autism link retracted - AFP via Sydney Morning Herald

* ►February 5, 2010 - The damage of the anti-vaccination movement - Childhood diseases once mostly eradicated are making a comeback. And children are dying. by Michael Fumento - Los Angeles Times

* ►February 4, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield & Ignaz Semmelweis: MMR concerns for the UK's GMC - Teresa Binstock, Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy via Generation Rescue

►February 4, 2010 - There Should Be a Vaccination for Stupidity - So The Lancet, a British medical journal named after a really sharp object, retracted a horrible study linking the measles vaccine to autism. - FOX News

* ►February 4, 2010 - Years later, trying to break a faulty vaccine connection - Health Matters Blog via MarketWatch

* ►February 4, 2010 - A hoax exposed - The Ottawa Citizen - "Websites are still buzzing with dangers to your child's health, but those of us who are parents have a responsibility to look past a crooked study of 12 children and make the choice based on evidence."

* ►February 4, 2010 - Autism parents haunted by question: Why? - CNN

* ►February 4, 2010 - Baby Blog - Vaccines, Doctors and your Child's Health - KSPR News - "But then, there's Ruth Dunigan, who swears her son David developed Autism after getting his DTP vaccine.  I've heard from other parents with similar stories.  Being a parent, you can't just discount these mothers and their instincts.  I believe a mother knows, she knows if something changed her child."

* ►February 4, 2010 - A blow to vaccine `link' - editorial - Toronto Star

* ►February 4, 2010 - What are the effects of the retracted autism study? by Dr. Jon Hallberg - audio - Minnesota Public Radio

* ►February 4, 2010 - TX Pediatrician: Goodbye MMR Vaccine Study (2010) Ari Brown, M.D. - Basil & Spice - "I can't tell you how many hours I have spent explaining this ongoing saga to families who hear bits and pieces of this study and the aftermath of it. And, then more time having to encourage them to protect their kids from very real, very serious infectious diseases. Time to close this ugly chapter of poor medical research that gets published and irresponsible journalists who bought into it. Goodbye MMR study."

* ►February 4, 2010 - Local reaction to "thrown out" autism study (includes video) - 12 News Today via AZcentral.com - "2 News spoke to with Dr. Raun Melmed from SARRC, or Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center in Phoenix this morning about the new information. 'We absolutely can not say vaccines are definitively linked to autism,' says Melmed, 'now there might be some sub-groups of small children who might be impacted and if you think that's the case its definitely worthwhile to discuss with your doctor.' But Melmed also knows Wakefield and defends the man for wanting to help children (because that, he feels, is his true motivation)."

* ►February 4, 2010 - One Less Study Links Vaccines to Autism - Technorati - "No parent who receives the diagnosis of autism for their child forgets that day. For us, it was February 2, 2004. Our son was almost five at the time. The military child psychologist gave us advice the same day. First, she suggested we take some time to digest the diagnosis and read some of the materials and resources she recommended. Second, she recommended we become familiar with the standards for scientific research and peer review. And finally, she encouraged us to stay away from the Internet and parent support groups until we had a firm understanding of autism. She expressed her concern about misinformation, bad scientific research and emotional responses to autism found on the Internet and in parenting groups. We took her advice."

* ►February 4, 2010 - Retraction won't end vaccine-autism debate - The few who link MMR shots to disorder are unlikely to be swayed - Columbus Dispatch - "The study had nothing to do with Drew McDaniel's concern about a connection between the vaccine and autism, nor is the retraction going to change her mind, the Heath mother said yesterday. McDaniel's daughter Ava, 4, first showed signs of autism when she was a toddler, after her MMR vaccine, McDaniel said. Because of that, 2-year-old Ella won't get the MMR vaccine in the near future, McDaniel said."

* ►February 4, 2010 - A turning point in the vaccine safety debate? - MinnPost.com - "I spoke on Wednesday with Patsy Stinchfield, a nurse practitioner and director of infectious disease and immunology at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. A passionate advocate for childhood immunizations, she was relieved by the council’s ruling. 'I think it’s a wonderful decision,' she said. 'I hope that we can mark that day as a turning point in the vaccine safety conversation.'"

* ►February 4, 2010 - MMR and other controversies - journal article (BMJ)

* ►February 4, 2010 - Number of cases of autism is up - Abilene Reporter News - "Parents of autistic children in the Big Country have their own thoughts. To Marla Nunez, mother of Nick Nunez, 6, vaccinations possibly played a role in her child’s diagnosis. Nick Nunez was developing normally, his mother said. But just before his second birthday, he stopped speaking simple phrases that had once been his norm. A loss of eye contact, another sign of autism, followed. After a battery of tests, her son was diagnosed, Nunez says. She believes Nick’s condition may be linked to vaccination, possibly for MMR."

* ►February 3, 2010 - The Lancet Slammed by Medical Veritas Editors: Vaccine Science Poisoned by Special Interests in PharmaMedia - press release - Dr. Leonard Horowitz, Tetrahedron, LLC via www.healthyworldmessage.com - "The editors of Medical Veritas journal have condemned The Lancet's retraction of the controversial study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, charging editor Richard Horton with pandering to special interests in a conspiracy to defraud the public about the risks of vaccinations."

* ►February 3, 2010 - Lancet Retracts Study Tying Vaccine to Autism - Wall Street Journal - "'Certainly the retraction of this paper doesn't mean that MMR doesn't cause autism and it's all a farce,' said Wendy Fournier, president of the National Autism Association. It is 'possible' that the MMR vaccine causes autism, she said, but 'the science is not there in terms of the mechanism.' The concern is that measles virus has been found in children's intestines after vaccination, said Ms. Fournier."

►February 3, 2010 - Retracted Study Still Has Effect - PortageOnline.com

►February 3, 2010 - Avera Medical Minute: New Study on Childhood Vaccinations & Autism Live 2/3/10 (includes video) - KSFY.com

* ►February 2, 2010 - Study Linking Vaccine, Autism Discredited - CDC: Vaccines 'Very Safe And Effective And They Save Lives' (includes video) - TheDenverChannel.com - "'Unfortunately vaccines have become a sacred cow to where you can't even raise a question without being a target,' said Theresa Wrangham, president of SafeMinds.org, a nonprofit advocacy group 'founded to investigate and raise awareness of the risks to infants and children of exposure to mercury from medical products, including thimerosal in vaccines,' according to the group's Web site. 'We simply want more research," Wrangham said, suggesting the criticism of the study's researcher, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, was 'political.'"

* ►February 2, 2010 - True Believers - Why there's no dispelling the myth that vaccines cause autism By Arthur Allen - Slate - "On Tuesday, the medical journal the Lancet retracted a 1998 paper that linked the MMR vaccine to autism. The controversial paper was challenged and debunked by the scientific community, but it nevertheless sparked a panic among many parents. In 2007, Arthur Allen explained why scientists are unlikely to convince the parents of autistic children that vaccines are not to blame. The original article is reprinted below."

►February 2, 2010 - Study Linking Autism to Vaccine Retracted - Retraction Follows U.K. Finding of 'Dishonest, Irresponsible' Study Methods - WebMD

* ►February 2, 2010 - The Lancet retracts 1998 study linking autism to MMR vaccine - author Paul Offit, MD - Pediatric Supersite - "One of the most remarkable things about this turn of events is that the retraction has received more attention than any of the science that took place between the initial article and now."

* ►July 5, 2009 - Sunday Times’ Discredited – Wakefield’s Autism Research Verified - Child Health Safety

Posted February 4, 2010

* ►February 4, 2010 - Olmsted on Autism: Enjoy It While It Lasts By Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism

* ►February 4, 2010 - Autism link with MMR jab 'a possibility' - The Northern Echo, UK - " A north-east researcher who has long suspected a link between the MMR triple vaccine and autism has said he still thinks there is 'a possibility' that his team will find evidence of a connection. Paul Shattock, scientific consultant to the Espa Autism Research Unit, in Sunderland, has spent the past decade analysing thousands of urine samples from people with autism. He believes that the prime suspect for the steady increase in autism cases in the UK is exposure to organophosphates contained in modern pesticides."

►February 4, 2010 - Herald News: Journal debunks vaccine's link to autism - NorthJersey.com

* ►February 4, 2010 - General Medical Council Urges 'Abhorrent Sexual Deviant' Doctor To Carry On Working - The One Click Group

Comment:  I guess “abhorrent sexual deviant” behavior is not “‘callous disregard’ for the suffering of children”(1,2).  Interesting standards the GMC has, to say the least.

* ►February 4, 2010 - Lancet Retracts Wakefield Et Al Paper After GMC Dishonesty Findings - Financial Times via The One Click Group

* ►February 4, 2010 - Vaccine link to autism dismissed - New Zealand Herald - "Helen Petousis-Harris, the director of research at Auckland University's Immunisation Advisory Centre, said the 'groundless controversy' had led to many preventable cases of disease internationally and in New Zealand. New Zealand still has a relatively low uptake of the MMR vaccine with only around 70 per cent of children receiving it at the recommended age."

►February 4, 2010 - Now-debunked vaccine movement has caused immeasurable harm - The Daily Caller

* ►February 4, 2010 - Debate over autism study - Local expert says don’t dismiss conclusions in spite of retraction - Marietta Times - "Still, Ginger O'Connor, director of early childhood and therapy for the Washington County Board of Developmental Disabilities, said people should 'be careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water.' O'Connor, considered an expert in autism in both the region and the state, agrees that the integrity of the study was compromised, but "that doesn't mean the results are wrong.' Rather than use that study as a benchmark though, reasearch into the subject needs to continue, she said."

* ►February 3, 2010 - Watch CNN Video on Vaccine Autism Debate with Kim Stagliano - video - Age of Autism

* ►February 3, 2010 - Watch the Fox News Video on Vaccine Autism Debate with Mark Blaxill - video - Age of Autism

* ►February 3, 2010 - Autism-vaccine fears remain * CNN talks with the mom of three autistic kids and a prominent doctor about the Lancet's study retraction. - video - [includes Kim Stagliano, Elizabeth Cohen, Dr. William Schaffner] - CNN

* ►February 3, 2010 - Autism vaccine study flawed  updated - CNN's Alina Cho explains why a medical journal has retracted a landmark study on autism and vaccines. - video - CNN

* ►February 3, 2010 - Time to regroup on autism By Alison Singer, Special to CNN (includes links to 3 videos) - CNN

* ►February 3, 2010 - Flawed Study, But Vaccine-Autism Debate Continues (includes video) - WCCO.com - "The fact that the debate has raged for more than decade and the fact that some parents remain convinced that vaccines contributed to their child's condition suggests this debate will not fade away. A.J. Paron-Wildes' son, Devon, 14, has autism. She believes his MMR vaccine at age 15 months caused it. 'It was night and day. The day before he had his MMR vaccination he could speak. He could point. He could say upstairs, downstairs,' said Paron-Wildes. "After he had the vaccine -- the very next day -- he had lost language.'"

* ►February 3, 2010 - Study that linked autism and vaccinations retracted - Prestigious journal says the report that vaccines could cause autism was the result of a ‘collective failure' - The Globe and Mail - "While many members of the medical community hope the retraction could help end the debate over vaccines and autism and quell the growing anti-vaccination movement, Dr. Wakefield's work seems destined to live on. The Autism Canada Foundation said The Lancet's retraction is a 'tangential issue' in the larger picture of determining what role environmental elements, such as vaccines, could play in the development of symptoms. 'From Autism Canada's stance, no stone should be left unturned in understanding this disorder, which is affecting more children, youths and adults yearly,' executive director Laurie Mawlam wrote in an e-mail."

* ►February 3, 2010 - Legal, Moral Issues in Autism-Vaccination Link Retraction - The foundation for personal injury and medical malpractice lawsuits has to do with the infliction and nature of harm. What might occur in the courts in light of the Lancet Journal's retraction on the link between autism and vaccinations? - Digital Journal - "So what happens when someone makes a blunder like this? In many cases they can be sued. Personal injury according to legal experts, occurs when someone does something that causes another person provable harm. Folks like Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey have been outspoken against vaccinations, even going on Larry King Live to tell people how risky vaccinations are and how they might cause autism. In the wake of this retraction will there be legal cases that result from parents suing people who have continued to denounce vaccines even as new research was presented that disputed Wakefield's original finding. The answer is unknown right now, but the potential for lawsuits remains, especially from parents whose children have been injured, as it has occurred for other medical problems when people have shown either culpability in an individual's development of a condition or negligent in responding to it well. The Omnibus Court threw out cases where parents had claimed vaccines had caused their children's autism . What might happen now the original study has been disproved?"

* ►February 3, 2010 - Weston doctor responds to autism study retraction (includes 3 videos) - WAOW.com - "Dr. Larry Gordon said, 'It's important to know that there have been multiple stories since that article was published in addition to being published have never shown a connection between the vaccine and autism.  In fact, it showed there was no connection, but people didn't want to believe it.'"

* ►February 3, 2010 - Autism: Reaction to the Lancet Retraction (includes video) - 11Alive.com WXIA Atlanta

* ►February 3, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield responds to article about journal retraction of autism study report - Booster Shots Blog via Los Angeles Times

* ►February 3, 2010 - Tamarac Mom Not Ready To Discard Autism Study (includes video) - CBS 4 - "Michelle [Rose] says his symptoms emerged a few weeks after he received the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine at 8-months-old: 'Immediately he wouldn't make eye contact; he lost his verbal skills that were emerging, and he was just in his own world by himself.'"

►February 3, 2010 - Don't Believe What You're Hearing About the Safety of the MMR and Recklessness of Dr. Wakefiled - Raising Healthy Kids Naturally

►February 3, 2010 - MMR Vaccine: Who’s to Blame? - video - CBS via The Autism News

►February 3, 2010 - Vaccines Still Don't Cause Autism - Gawker

►February 3, 2010 - More Good News on the Vaccination Front - The Science Business Blog via Forbes - "Wakefield's disgrace will do little to stop the hardcore believers in the failed vaccine-autism hypothesis, but while the denialists at Age of Autism, Huffington Post, and other outlets whine to each other about the evils of vaccines, real scientists are helping real people."

►February 3, 2010 - Despite retraction, some LI parents believe in vaccine-autism link (requires subscription) - Newsday

►February 3, 2010 - Jeremy discusses unclaimed benefits, the MMR vaccine, stalkers and taxi drivers. - audio 6 days left to listen - Jeremy Vine Show via BBC Radio 2

►February 3, 2010 - The Lancet retracts study linking vaccine to autism - Winnipeg Free Press

* ►February 3, 2010 - Vaccine Scare Shows How Emotions Can Trump Facts - Shots - NPR's Health Blog - "So we turned to David Ropeik, a risk consultant and author of How Risky Is It Really? Why Our Fears Don't Always Match The Facts , for some insight.  Ropeik says that the Wakefield episode is a prime example of our potential to misjudge a situation based on false perceptions of risk. In emotional circumstances, where we lack an understanding and control of the situation, our emotional instincts to react may overwhelm our more logical side, he says."

►February 2, 2010 - Controversial Autism Study Retracted by Medical Journal - HealthDay via Palm Beach Post

* ►February 2, 2010 - Parents React to Autism Study Retraction (includes video) - MyFox Houston - "Michelle Guppy's son Brandon, 16, wasn't born autistic. Instead, the Cypress mother says something triggered Brandon's autism after his first birthday. 'He lost the eye contact. He lost social skills of wanting to be around people. The head banging started,' said Guppy."

* ►February 2, 2010 - Iowans React To Retracted Child Vaccine Study - Controversial Study Linking Vaccines To autism Retracted - KCCI Des Moines - "Danielle Sharpe’s son, Spencer, was diagnosed with autism at the age of 3. She wonders what role, if any, vaccines might have played. Danielle Sharpe said, 'I don't know that it caused my son's autism, but I have friends who are confident that their child was vaccinated and starting later that day or the next day it all started going downhill.'"

* ►February 2, 2010 - British Medical Journal Retracts Study Linking Vaccines and Autism - Tonic - "Although Forbes criticizes the Lancet for its 'incomprehensible' retraction not written in layman's terms, Lancet editor Richard Horton seemed quite unambiguous about their position when interviewed by The Guardian this week.  'It was utterly clear, without any ambiguity at all, that the statements in the paper were utterly false,' Horton said in reference to the General Medical Council's finding. "I feel I was deceived.'"

* ►February 2, 2010 - Lancet retracts 'utterly false' MMR paper - After medical council ruling last week that MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield was dishonest, journal finally quashes paper - The Guardian, UK - "[Andrew] Wakefield 'was dishonest', said [Richard] Horton. 'He deceived the journal.' The Lancet had done what it could to establish that the research was valid, by having it peer-reviewed. But there is a limit, he said, to what peer-review can ascertain. 'Peer review is the best system we have got for checking accuracy and acceptability of work, but unless we went into the lab or examined every case record, we can't ever finally rule out some element of misconduct. The entire system depends upon trust. Most of the time we think it works well, but there will be a few instances – and when they happen they are huge instances – where the whole thing falls apart.' When journals have suspicions of fraud or misconduct, they have to refer them to the institution employing the scientists. 'We rely on the processes within institutions to investigate allegations of fraud, and if they are found to be wanting, that is extremely disappointing,' he said."

►February 2, 2010 - Scientists Retract Study on Positive Autism - Vaccine Link - Many people believe autism is caused by vaccines. They cite a scientific study as evidence. The group that originally published the story now retracts it. But has the damage already been done? - Digital Journal

* ►Autism awareness (includes videos) - CNN iReport

Posted February 3, 2010

* ►February 3, 2010 - The Lancet's Vaccine Retraction - A medical journal's role in the autism scare. - The Wall Street Journal - "Evidence of vaccine safety continued to build, but the Lancet stuck to its story through 2004, when it was revealed that Dr. Wakefield had been paid to conduct his study on children who were clients of a lawyer ginning up a lawsuit. Even then the journal offered only a partial retraction, saying it had been correct to "raise new ideas."

* ►February 3, 2010 - Local Mother Speaks out About Autism and the MMR Vaccine (includes video) - At least 1 in 110 children have autism, and while several factors could be to blame, one local mother is outraged about the ground-breaking article being retracted. - WBKO.com

►February 3, 2010 - Is this the end of vaccine-autism debate? - Picture of Health Blog via Baltimore Sun

* ►February 3, 2010 - Jay Gordon, MD: The Lancet Retracts Dr. Andrew Wakefield's Article On The Autism/Vaccine Connection - The Huffington Post

* ►February 3, 2010 - Doc: Blame Med Journal for Measles Deaths - After Lancet Retracts Study Linking Autism to MMR Vaccine, Big Vaccine Backer Says Lancet, Others Should Be Held Accountable - CBS News - "On 'The Early Show' Wednesday, [Dr. Paul] Offit says he hopes Lancet's reversal ends the debate, once-and-for-all. 'It's certainly a long time in coming,' he remarked to co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez. 'The (original) paper obviously was critically flawed. It should have never been published. Science done since then has clearly shown that MMR vaccine didn't cause autism.'"

* ►February 3, 2010 - MMR Vaccine: Who's to Blame? - Dr. Paul Offit, author of "Autism's False Prophets," spoke to Maggie Rodriguez about the retraction of the study linking the MMR vaccine to childhood autism and the science between the reversal. - video - CBS News

* ►February 3, 2010 - Vaccine Link to Autism Retracted - A respected British medical journal, The Lancet, retracted a study that the childhood vaccine MMR triggers autism. Richard Roth reports on the controversy debated for more than a decade. - video - CBS News

* ►February 3, 2010 - MMR autism scare research is withdrawn - Mirror.co.uk - "Adam Finn, Professor of Paediatrics at Bristol University, said: 'This is not before time. I hope the country can now draw a line under this particular health scare and move onto new opportunities for vaccination.'"

* ►February 3, 2010 - Vaccine Study Retracted, and Causes of Autism Remain Elusive - On Parenting Blog via U.S. News & World Report

* ►February 3, 2010 - Medical journal retracts controversial autism article - Researcher had linked disorder to childhood vaccines - Baltimore Sun - "'This is welcome. It's overdue; this paper should never have been published,' said Dr. Neal Halsey, director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who added that it is highly unusual for a prominent medical journal to retract an article."

►February 3, 2010 - With the facts against them Dr. Wakefield's supporters appeal to emotion - Left Brain/Right Brain

►February 2, 2010 - Who Is Andrew Wakefield? - Autism Blog via http://autism.about.com

►February 2, 2010 - Lancet retracts study linking vaccine to autism (requires subscription) - Newsday

►February 2, 2010 - Faith in bad science: Retraction of game-changing vaccine study unlikely to change behavior - editorial - Boulder Daily Camera

* ►February 2, 2010 - The Lancet Retraction - By Michelle Fay Cortez - Age of Autism

* ►February 2, 2010 - Kim Stagliano: The Censorship of Autism Treatment - The Huffington Post - "There is joy all over the Internet, back slapping and "Isn't it grand!" that Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues have been brought down so publicly. At the same time, autism is chewing through our country at breakneck speed. 1 in 250 became 1 in 166 which increased to 1 in 150 and is now 1 in 110 with no signs of abating. Schools and families are bearing the brunt of the battle today. Tomorrow, as the children become young adults and "age out" of school, you, the average Huffington Post reader, will be partially responsible for them via your taxes. The finger pointing in Connecticut, where I live, has already begun. A recent newspaper article began with, "Why is the district being punished for having too many white autistic kids?""

* ►February 2, 2010 - Kim Stagliano on The GMC Hearing: "The Censorship of Autism Treatment" By Kim Stagliano - Age of Autism

* ►February 2, 2010 - Medical journal retracts flawed autism study - Controversial paper published in 1998 linked MMR shots to disorder (includes video) - AP via MSNBC

* ►February 2, 2010 - Medical journal retracts study linking autism to vaccine (includes video) - CNN

* ►February 2, 2010 - Autism-vaccine study retracted - CBC - "Meanwhile, fallout from the publication of the study continues. 'It was out there for a very long time. So it's good The Lancet has retracted it. It helps in a small way. But the truth of the matter is the damage has been done,' in terms of changes in belief and perception, said Dr. Allison McGeer, an infectious diseases expert at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. The retraction is important, but the time it has taken to get to this point dulls its impact, said Dr. Evdokia Anagnostou, a clinician scientist at Bloorview Research Institute in Toronto. 'There is room to study the link between the immune system and autism,' she added. 'Still, I don't think we have clarified that issue, and I would hope that the money goes towards that route and not again on the MMR hypothesis.'"

* ►February 2, 2010 - Medical journal retracts autism paper 12 years on - The Lancet medical journal formally retracted a paper on Tuesday that caused a 12-year international battle over links between the three-in-one childhood MMR vaccine and autism. - Reuters

* ►February 2, 2010 - Lancet retracts study linking vaccine to autism (includes video) - CTV Toronto

* ►February 2, 2010 - Report linking autism to vaccines is retracted by medical journal - The Lancet issues a retraction on the 12-year-old paper by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, which had said the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine causes autism. The report led to a sharp drop in vaccination rates. - Los Angeles Times

* ►February 2, 2010 - The False Prophets of Autism - Motherlode Blog via The New York Times

* ►February 2, 2010 - Study Linking Autism to Vaccine Retracted - British Medical Journal Bows to Pressure to Pull Flawed 1998 Paper from Record (includes video) - CBS News - "Paul Offit, a pediatrician and vaccine expert at the University of Pennsylvania who has long advocated for the value of vaccines, told CBS News' Amy Burkholder that the study 'should never have been published' and that the retraction is 'too little too late.'"

* ►February 2, 2010 - Journal Retracts 1998 Paper Linking Autism to Vaccines (requires registration) - The New York Times - "Jim Moody, a director of SafeMinds, a parents’ group that advances the notion the vaccines cause autism, said the retraction would strengthen Dr. Wakefield’s credibility with many parents. 'Attacking scientists and attacking doctors is dangerous,' he said. 'This is about suppressing research, and it will fuel the controversy by bringing it all up again.'"

* ►February 2, 2010 - David Kirby: The Lancet Retraction Changes Nothing - Age of Autism

* ►February 2, 2010 - The Lancet Retraction Changes Nothing - David Kirby - The Huffington Post - "So what might those factors include? Well, it turns out that the IACC has unanimously recommend research to determine if certain sub-populations are more susceptible to environmental exposures such as "immune challenges related to naturally occurring infections, vaccines or underlying immune problems." Nobody seriously thinks that the retraction of The Lancet article, and the international flogging of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, will do anything to make this debate go away. And they are right."

* ►February 2, 2010 - Shares of Vaccine Makers up on Lancet Retraction - FOXBusiness - "Shares of Merck, the largest producer of the MMR vaccine, hovered up 2% in morning trading. Vaccine producers as a whole were in the green Tuesday, with Sanofi Aventis (SNY: 37.56, 0.5, 1.35%), Novartis AG (NVS: 54.73, 0.7, 1.3%), Glaxo Smith-Kline PLC (GSK: 39.52, 0.63, 1.62%) and Abbott Labs (ABT: 54.45, 1.09, 2.04%) all in positive territory. A spokesman for Merck did not immediately return a call for comment."

* ►February 2, 2010 - The Lancet's Incomprehensible Autism Retraction - Forbes - "The Lancet's retraction needs to be clear enough to play a role in that kind of debate, so that anyone coming upon the retraction can understand the import of the paper and that the reasons for the retraction represent specific complaints about the validity and ethics of the 1998 paper. If parents are going to keep hearing negative things about vaccines, Pfizer, Merck, and GlaxoSmithKline are to keep developing new inoculations, then it is important that such statements be at least comprehensible to laypeople."

* ►February 2, 2010 - GMC Wakefield Verdict Reflections on investigating Wakefield - What will become of the man at the centre of the longest running case to be heard by a GMC fitness to practise panel? - Brian Deer -  journal article (BMJ)

►February 2, 2010 - Lancet retracts Wakefield’s MMR paper - journal article (BMJ)

* ►February 2, 2010 - GMC Wakefield Verdict Why did the Lancet take so long? - journal article (BMJ)

* ►February 2, 2010 - MMR vaccine and autism - Health professionals must enter the public arena if future debacles are to be prevented - journal article (BMJ)

►February 2, 2010 - Medical journal retracts autism paper - The Lancet retracts 12-year-old paper linking vaccine and autism - Need to know via Macleans.ca

►February 2, 2010 - Hoosiers React To Debunked Autism Vaccine Link (includes video) - www.theindychannel.com

►February 2, 2010 - How to: get a head start in health and science journalism - Journalism.co.uk - "The media coverage of the MMR vaccine story demonstrates how ignorance on the behalf of journalists can lead to serious consequences. The reported findings of research by Andrew Wakefield linking the MMR vaccine to autism made front page news."

►February 2, 2010 - Has Time Rewritten Every Line? - The American Spectator

* ►February 1, 2010 - On the matter of the Lancet retraction - Hilary's Desk via Beyond Conformity - "The Lancet has retracted the 1998 paper (1). Now, all the pillorying and slandering of Andrew Wakefield will start in earnest. The question is, "How does Richard Horton manage to go to sleep each night?". And here's why."

* ►Fall 2004 - An Investigation of the Association Between MMR Vaccination and Autism in Denmark (full text) (pdf) - journal article (Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons) via www.medicalveritas.com

Comment from the author: “This paper shows a statistically significant increase in autism associated with the start of MMR vaccination in Denmark prior to the change in classification (from  ICD-8 to ICD-10) and prior to change in enrollments.

Other epidemiological studies that showed no association between MMR vaccination and autism have been found flawed both methodologically and statistically.  In fact, the Madsden et al. study, highly touted as the most comprehensive study in existence, when corrected for biases, actually showed a temporal association.”

* ►Complaint regarding the UK's General Medical Council (GMC) judgment (28 January 2010) - The Petition Site - "Target: General Medical Council (GMC) in United Kingdom (UK) Sponsored by:  Jaquelyn McCandless, M.D. Dr. Andrew J. Wakefield's findings of gastrointestinal pathologies in a subgroup of children with autism are very important. His persecution by the GMC is akin to the persecution of Semmelweis."

Posted February 2, 2010

* ►February 2, 2010 - Retraction—Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children - journal article (The Lancet)

* ►February 2, 2010 - Lancet Retracts Study Tying Child Vaccine to Autism - Bloomberg

* ►February 2, 2010 - Lancet accepts MMR study 'false' - The medical journal which originally published the discredited research linking autism and MMR has now issued a full retraction of the paper. - BBC - "In 2004, editors argued they had been right to publish it as the journal was there to 'raise new ideas'"

►February 2, 2010 - Lancet Retracts MMR Jab Link To Autism - Medical journal The Lancet has retracted its 1998 study linking autism with the MMR vaccination. - Sky News

* ►February 2, 2010 - Rise in mumps blamed on low MMR take-up - Health chiefs today warned teenagers and students to ensure they are fully vaccinated against mumps after a sharp rise in cases in the capital. - London Evening Standard via This is London - "Scares over the safety of the vaccine triggered by Dr Andrew Wakefield in 1998 led to many parents not fully vaccinating their children."

►February 2, 2010 - Autism and MMR research doctor 'irresponsible' - Craegmoor News

* ►February 2, 2010 - Rapid Responses to: Wakefield was dishonest and irresponsible over MMR research, says GMC - Re: The bewildering farrago at the GMC John Stone - journal article (BMJ)

* ►February 1, 2010 - Rapid Responses published: Wakefield was dishonest and irresponsible over MMR research, says GMC - The bewildering farrago at the GMC - journal article (BMJ)

* ►February 1, 2010 - Dr Andrew Wakefield and the MMR Scare – Evan on C4 News (includes video) - Dr Evan Harris MP WordPress

* ►February 1, 2010 - Doctor Who Started Vaccine, Autism Debate in Ethics Row - Doctor's Critics and Parent Supporters Say Ethics Debate Is Irrelevant to Science - ABC News - "[Rebecca] Estepp, Talk About Curing Autism's manager of strategic planning, agreed with [SafeMinds President Theresa] Wrangham in that the charges against Wakefield may lead doctors away from researching vaccines, or gastrointestinal problems in children.  'What comes down at the end of the day is that Dr. Wakefield continued his research,' said Estepp. 'The things that he has found and the different treatment models that have come about from those findings are the things I've seen improve my son.' Indeed, Wakefield left England since the original 1998 article and has since set up an alternative research and treatment organization called Thoughtful House in Austin, Texas. Estepp correctly noted that it wasn't a complaint from a parent of the 12 children, but an investigation by U.K journalist Brian Deer that opened up questions into Wakefield's actions. "In my eyes Dr. Wakefield's work was the foundation of my son getting better," said Estepp. 'The thing that I'm worried about as a parent with a child of autism… is if you are a scientist and you stumble upon something controversial, we now know that scientists can see that their careers or their livelihoods are at stake,' she added."

* ►February 1, 2010 - GPs urge people to get protected - Lakeland Today, UK - "Dr Peter Weaving, one of NHS Cumbria's lead GPs, said: 'Take-up rates for the MMR vaccine have gradually recovered since Dr Wakefield first made his claims but there are still a lot of people in the county who aren't protected from a number of common infections who could be.'"

►February 1, 2010 - Vaccine-Autism Doctor Guilty of 'Dishonesty and Misleading Conduct' - Discovery News

* ►February 1, 2010 - Vaccines, Autism, Bad Research and the Damage Wrought by Andrew Wakefield - Care2.com

* ►January 29, 2010 - The MMR battle is, sadly, not over - The British system has not been as effective as the American one - The Times, UK

►January 29, 2010 - Did Andrew Wakefield plan to develop “vaccine alternatives”? - Left Brain/Right Brain

Posted February 1, 2010

►February 1, 2010 - The martyrdom of St. Andy - Respectful Insolence via ScienceBlogs

* ►January 31, 2010 - Gastrointestinal pathologies in autism: Did Mayo's Ibrahim and colleagues err? - Teresa Binstock, Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy via Generation Rescue

* ►January 31, 2010 - MPS Press Statement - Professor John Walker Smith, GMC Findings Of Fact - Medical Protection Society via The One Click Group - "Professor John Walker-Smith ... said: 'I have dedicated my career to the care of children and my first concern has always been to do the best for them. I have always and will continue to contest any allegation of wrongdoing. I obviously am disappointed by some of the findings of the GMC but I am pleased to note that the panel has not found that I was dishonest. I will be considering the GMC’s findings in detail and will be making submissions at the resumed hearing in April. The prolonged investigation and hearing has been difficult for everyone involved in this case and I hope that the conclusion is now in sight.'"

* ►January 31, 2010 - The Skeptics report on Wakefield findings - Croakey the Crikey health Blog - "Anti-vaccination proponents ignore the extremely serious irregularities in the way he achieved his results, preferring to concentrate on their belief that those results support their case. That those same findings are also likely to be wrong – Wakefield only studied 12 children while other subsequent studies have looked at many thousands of subjects and have not replicated and have indeed challenge his findings – seems to go unnoticed by the anti-vaxers. But acknowledgement of facts that contradict their views has never been a strength of that movement.”

►January 31, 2010 - Dishonest, discredited, and absent: Wakefield is thoughtless at home - Psychology Today

►January 31, 2010 - Oh Deer… - Left Brain/Right Brain

►January 31, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield – What happens next? - Left Brain/Right Brain

►January 28, 2010 - Press statement - Professor John Walker-Smith via Medical Protection Society

Posted January 2010

* ►January 31, 2010 - Eye Witness Report from the UK GMC Wakefield, Walker-Smith, Murch Hearing By Martin Walker - Age of Autism

* ►January 31, 2010 - I Will Press On Vows Shamed MMR Doctor - The doctor accused of professional ­misconduct over his work suggesting a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism has vowed to “redouble” his research on vaccine safety and the “plight of sick children”. - Express.co.uk - "'I have never been against vaccines. I am pro-vaccines and recommend taking them, but they have to make sure they are safe and that may mean splitting them into single components.' ... Dr Richard Halvorsen, author of The Truth About Vaccines, said: 'The judgment given to Dr Wakefield seemed harsh and I suspect there was a political necessity to come down hard on Dr Wakefield to stifle debate about the MMR vaccine.'  Dr Wakefield’s former patients remain loyal to him. As he arrived to give evidence last week he was greeted by several dozen supporters holding placards declaring he was the victim of a 'witch hunt'. Isabella Thomas, whose two sons were under the care of Dr Wakefield and his team at the Royal Free Hospital in London a decade ago, is furious. Mrs Thomas, whose sons, now 15 and 17, developed autism and bowel disease after being given the MMR vaccine, told the Sunday Express: 'Dr Wakefield was part of a team of doctors that looked after our children really well. Now children like mine will be blacklisted and doctors will be afraid to treat them.'"

* ►January 31, 2010 - ‘Callous, unethical and dishonest’: Dr Andrew Wakefield by Brian Deer - The Sunday Times, UK

* ►January 31, 2010 - Establishment betrayed its agenda with MMR vaccine - Scotland on Sunday - "Last week's condemnation of Dr Andrew Wakefield, the physician whose research suggested a link between the MMR vaccine and autism in children, by the General Medical Council was the climax of 12 years of medical controversy. A GMC panel that investigated his case denounced Wakefield as having brought the medical profession 'into disrepute'.  In fact, the controversy over MMR was about a lot more than Andrew Wakefield, the triple vaccine or autism. It was a battle in a wider war; and when it is put in the context of that broader conflict it assumes a larger significance. The original paper, published in 1998 by 13 doctors in the Lancet, did not claim in downright terms a link between MMR and autism. Nor were Wakefield and his associates entirely alone in their unease: an EU-funded meta review conducted in 2004 concluded that a connection between MMR and autism was 'unlikely', but conceded: 'The design and reporting of safety outcomes in MMR vaccine studies… are largely inadequate.' Despite establishment bluster, there was no certainty that the alarm was unfounded. A decade earlier, in 1988, despite American and Canadian concern that a form of MMR vaccine containing the Urabe mumps strain caused meningitis, the NHS introduced mass vaccinations. Only in the early 1990s, when these fears were realised, did it discontinue the vaccine and replace it with one containing the Jeryl Lynn mumps strain instead."

* ►January 30, 2010 - Attorney Jim Moody Describes False Testimony at GMC Hearing: Video Here - Age of Autism

* ►January 30, 2010 - Vaccines: Doctor Judges & Juries Hanging Their Own By Barbara Loe Fisher - Age of Autism

* ►January 30, 2010 - MMR: taking a shot in the dark - Most parents are as ignorant as I am on the measles triple vaccine, says Jemima Lewis - The Telegraph, UK

* ►January 30, 2010 - Shipley family believes fits were triggered by measles jab - Bradford Telegraph Argus - "Tragic mum Tracy Swatton could have died from a fatal fit brought on by a ‘one-in-20 million’ reaction to a jab she had when she was four, her family believe. The 37-year-old was found on the bedroom floor by her husband Tom when he came home from work. Her sudden death has left her family distraught. Her mum, Jean Green, of Briggate, Shipley, said her 'happy go lucky daughter' had been blighted by epilepsy ever since she had a measles jab."

* ►January 30, 2010 - Peter Hitchens: The great and the good support mercy killing - that's why I'm so worried - Daily Mail, UK - "Wakefield’s only crime was to put patients first - The Establishment spite against Andrew Wakefield is extraordinary. You would think that he had killed at least 150 patients, and tortured several more, to judge from the righteous condemnation issued against him. I’ve been back to his original Lancet article and am struck by how modest and cautious it is – and also by the weight it rightly gives to the sincere fears of parents. Some of those parents still harbour reasonable fears about the MMR jab, and I urge any pro-MMR fanatic to spend an afternoon with the fantastically stoical Heather Edwards and her terribly damaged son Josh and see if they stay as certain as they are now."

* ►January 30, 2010 - MMR doc’s just guilty of caring By Fiona Phillips - column - The Mirror, UK

* ►January 30, 2010 - Kids' MMR jab gets mum's support - The Star, UK

►January 30, 2010 - GMC rules against MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield - Healthcare Republic - "East London GP and staunch MMR supporter Dr Mike Fitzpatrick, whose 17-year-old son has autism, said ‘I'm entirely sympathetic to the findings of the GMC verdict but it should have been made 10 years ago."

►January 30, 2010 - Parents in the MMR case - letters - The Telegraph, UK

* ►January 29, 2010 - Naked Intimidation: The Wakefield Inquisition is Only the Tip of the Autism Censorship Iceberg By Mark F. Blaxill - Age of Autism - "  “That’s baseless conspiracy-mongering”, some might counter, contending that any anecdote I might dig up is simply the normal process of scientific quality control. “Welcome to the real world”, I respond, because this is something entirely new and disturbing. The deep and profound censorship occurring around autism science reaches depths that few casual observers can imagine. I have proof."

* ►January 29, 2010 - Vaccines: Doctor Judges & Juries Hanging Their Own by Barbara Loe Fisher (includes video) - NVIC.org - "Today, I join millions of parents of vaccine injured children around the world, and thank Drs. Andrew Wakefield, Simon Murch and John Walker-Smith for having the intellectual honesty, conscience and courage to stand up for truth and freedom in science. You are honored and loved by many for what you have done to try to help ease the suffering of the growing numbers of vaccine injured children and prevent more children from joining their ranks."

* ►January 29, 2010 - GMC brands Dr Andrew Wakefield 'dishonest, irresponsible and callous' - As the GMC announce their findings that Dr Andrew Wakefield "failed in his duties", he talks to Cassandra Jardine. - The Telegraph, UK - "Behind his cool manner, and soft voice, lies rage. He believes he has been the victim of a media campaign. 'Repeat after me: 'Wakefield discredited, Wakefield discredited,’ if you say it often enough it will stick.' But why? 'There was a huge political will to prosecute. Don’t you dare challenge vaccination, was the message. The motive was not always financial. It was a belief system. I am, of course, deeply concerned with public health, but not with the structure of Public Health. I’m interested in the individual who comes in and sits down at the table and says: 'This is what happened to me or my child.’ That’s why I came into medicine."

* ►January 29, 2010 - Mums ejected from the GMC Dr Wakefield Witch-hunt Trial Speak out - Ali Janice and Elaine are ejected from the GMC .upset at how THIER children and the care THEY received was described . and the terrible conflicts of interest at the GMC why was this NOT shown on the TV , BBC ITV and SKY - YouTube 

* ►January 29, 2010 - False Testimony Denies Dr Wakefield a Fair Hearing at MMR GMC Witchhunt - video - YouTube

* ►January 29, 2010 - Mum ejected from the GMC Dr Wakefield Witch-hunt talks openly about the GMC Judges - video - YouTube

* ►January 29, 2010 - Damning verdict on MMR doctor: Anger as GMC attacks 'callous disregard' for sick children - Daily Mail, UK - "'Not one parent ever complained. He was the only doctor who ever listened to us' Andrew Wakefield and his team at the Royal Free Hospital studied 12 children aged three to ten. All had intestinal disorders and nine were diagnosed with autism. In eight cases the symptoms emerged soon after the child received the MMR jab. The study became a key aspect of the allegations at the GMC - even though none of the 'Lancet families' complained. The children were not identified during the GMC hearing but some of their parents have agreed to tell their stories to the Daily Mail."

* ►January 29, 2010 - Vaccine is safe, say experts after £1m hearings - Parents were last night urged to give their children the MMR vaccine after safety fears over the jab proved “unfounded”. - Herald Scotland - "Supporters of Dr Andrew Wakefield hit out at what they said was 'disgraceful' treatment of the man at the centre of the MMR jab controversy. About 30 people – many waving placards – gathered outside the hearing. Sarah and Chris Fisher, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, were among those backing the disgraced doctor. In January 2006, their 18-month-old son George died – 10 days after being given the MMR jab. Speaking outside the GMC, Mr Fisher, 44, a plumber, said: 'He was a healthy boy and there’s no other explanation.' He criticised the GMC ruling and said: 'We’re getting rid of a brilliant doctor. I think it’s disgraceful.' Dr Wakefield’s supporters also included retired teacher Grace Filby, 57, of Reigate, Surrey, and Wendy Sutterthwaite, 60, a former NHS nurse from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. Ms Filby branded the ruling 'disgraceful' and added: 'He is doing pioneering work and putting other doctors to shame.' Ms Sutterthwaite said: 'These doctors are pioneers – very brave, very intelligent with a high level of integrity. The Government should be ashamed.'"

* ►January 29, 2010 - Wakefield's move to Texas brings wealthy backers - The London Times - "The US charity said after the General Medical Council released its findings: “The work of Thoughtful House on behalf of children with developmental disorders and their families goes on. We are dedicated to the recovery of these children. “Our focus continues to be to provide the best possible treatment for these children, and to conduct medical research in order to ensure continuing improvements in the quality of treatment available. “Thoughtful House supports a safety-first vaccination policy and upholds the right of parents to choose what’s best for their children.”

* ►January 29, 2010 - Wakefield was dishonest and irresponsible over MMR research, says GMC - journal article (BMJ)

* ►January 29, 2010 - Appeal to parents over MMR jab after autism claims discredited - Yorkshire Post, UK -  "Teacher Grace Filby, 57, said the rulings were "disgraceful" and added: "He is doing pioneering work and putting the rest of the doctors to shame." Wendy Sutterthwaite, 60, a former NHS nurse, said: "These doctors are pioneers – very brave, very intelligent with a high level of integrity. The Government should be ashamed."

* ►January 29, 2010 - Doc Who Tied Vaccine To Autism Was ‘Unethical” - Pharmalot

* ►January 29, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - Doctor who sparked one of the biggest public health controversies in British medical history has defended his views on the MMR vaccine vigorously and has said his only concern is the welfare of children. - The Telegraph, UK

* ►January 29, 2010 - Medical council slams doctor who linked vaccine to autism -transcript (includes audio) - The World Today via www.abc.net.au - "LINDY KERIN: A lobby group for parents, the Australian Vaccination Network has criticised the ruling. The national president Meryl Dorey says Dr Wakefield and his team of researchers have been treated unfairly. MERYL DOREY: These are three incredibly ethical, dedicated doctors who have actually put their careers and possibly their freedom on the line because they believe so strongly in what they have found."

* ►January 29, 2010 - British doctor rebuked over research linking vaccine and autism - Britain's medical regulator finds that Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who now practices in Texas, conducted his now-discredited research on the MMR shot in an unethical and irresponsible manner. - Los Angeles Times

* ►January 29, 2010 - The media needs to take more responsibility following MMR scare doctor hearings, says PR expert - PRWeek - "Insignia Communications founder Jonathan Hemus said: ‘The media needs to take greater responsibility when writing stories of this kind. It has a real and direct effect on people's lives. A high standard of care needs to be shown by the media.' He also added that PR professionals involved in the communication of a story need to be careful. He said: ‘This story shows the ability to create mass panic and cause harm to the health of children. Anyone who puts news out there must be very responsible and needs to understand that what they say has the potential to create mass panic."

* ►January 29, 2010 - I was there when Wakefield dropped his bombshell By Jeremy Laurance - The Independent, UK

* ►January 29, 2010 - Fall of Andrew Wakefield, ‘dishonest’ doctor who started MMR scare - The Times, UK - "The hearing sat for 148 days over a two-and-a-half year period, at a cost to the GMC, funded by doctors, of more than £1 million. It is the longest running medical misconduct case in the Council’s 147 year history. Before yesterday’s hearing, 12 organisations, including the Medical Research Council, the British Medical Association and Faculty of Public Health, released a joint statement reaffirming their confidence in the jab. 'The undersigned believe that the MMR triple vaccine protects the health of children,” they said. “A large body of scientific evidence shows no link between the vaccine and autism.'"

* ►January 29, 2010 - How MMR saga shaped science’s rules of engagement with the media - The Times, UK

* ►January 29, 2010 - Wakefield’s Inquisition: Abuse of the legal system and media by anti-vaccine doctor - Left Brain/Right Brain

►January 29, 2010 - The MMR jab: One mother's experience - Shropshire Star

►January 29, 2010 - A Sad Day for the Future of Children - Autism Collaboration via Age of Autism

►January 29, 2010 - Generation Rescue Supports Dr. Andrew Wakefield - Age of Autism

►January 29, 2010 - Thoughtful House Responds to General Medical Council Findings - Age of Autism

* ►January 29, 2010 - SafeMinds Supports Dr. Andrew Wakefield - Safeminds GMC Rules Against Wakefield et al, Yet Medical Establishmen Agrees  Further Study of GI Disease in Children with Autism Is Top Priority - Age of Autism

* ►January 29, 2010 - Panel slams autism doc as unethical - video - Today Show via MSNBC

* ►January 29, 2010 - Panel Calls Anti-Vax Doc Unethical, Supporters Don't Care (includes video) - ParentDish

►January 29, 2010 - Damning verdict on doctor who linked MMR and autism - New Scientist

►January 29, 2010 - Doctor Behind MMR-Autism Scare Ruled Unethical - TIME Magazine

►January 29, 2010 - Doctor who linked MMR vaccine to autism: 'dishonest and unethical' - Experts hope to rebuild parents' trust in MMR vaccination - MadeForMums

►January 29, 2010 - Woodford GRN: MMR controversy doctor was 'irresponsible' - Redbridge News, Guardian Series

►January 29, 2010 - Dispatch: Conflicts of Interest, Rotavirus, Gates, Wakefield, and Argentine Pork - American Council on Science and Health

►January 29, 2010 - Brit M.D. who tied MMR vaccine to autism acted "dishonestly and irresponsibly" By Michael Fumento - Fumento.com

* ►January 28, 2010 - Official Finding of Facts from UK General Medical Council Available at Age of Autism - Age of Autism

* ►January 28, 2010 - FITNESS TO PRACTISE PANEL HEARING 28 January 2010 - On 16 July 2007 a Fitness to Practise Panel considered the case of: A. Dr Andrew Jeremy WAKEFIELD GMC reference number: 2733564 B. Professor John Angus WALKER-SMITH - GMC reference number: 1700583 C. Professor Simon Harry MURCH - GMC reference number: 2540201 (pdf) - General Medical Council via Age of Autism/Rescue Post

* ►January 28, 2010 - A Short Form FAQ About the Wakefield GMC Case - Age of Autism

►January 28, 2010 - Dr. Andrew Wakefield Responds to GMC Hearing on BBC Television - Age of Autism

►January 28, 2010 - Talk About Curing Autism Summarizes the UK GMC Findings - Click HERE to read the full report from TACA. - Age of Autism

* ►January 28, 2010 - Dr. Wakefield’s GMC Findings - Delivered Today in London - TACA Talk About Curing Autism

* ►January 28, 2010 - Statement on UK General Medical Council - Thoughtful House - "Thoughtful House is naturally disappointed by today’s report from the UK General Medical Council. A careful examination of the full record of the Council’s inquiry will show that the charges made against Drs. Wakefield, Murch, and Walker-Smith are unfounded and unfair. We invite anyone to review the record, and to draw their own conclusions."

* ►January 28, 2010 - Parents of Children with Autism Call Decision in Wakefield Trial a Threat to Medical Integrity - GMC Findings Uphold Status Quo, Discourage Physicians from Listening to Parents’ Concerns - press release - National Autism Association

* ►January 28, 2010 - A Statement from Generation Rescue in Support of Dr. Andrew Wakefield - Generation Rescue

* ►January 28, 2010 - Statement from member organizations of the Autism Collaboration - A Sad Day for the Future of Children - Members of the Autism Collaboration via Teri Arranga's Blog via AutismOne

* ►January 28, 2010 - A Threat to Justice Everywhere - Wade Rankin's Blog via AutismOne

* ►January 28, 2010 - Expert view: The media are equally guilty over the MMR vaccine scare - Andrew Wakefield was at the centre of a media storm about the MMR vaccine and is now being blamed by journalists as if he were the only one at fault by Ben Goldacre - The Guardian, UK

* ►January 28, 2010 - British medical panel slams doctor who leads Austin autism center - Salud Blog via Austin American-Statesman

* ►January 28, 2010 - UK Medical Panel Rules Against Doctor Over Vaccine - UK medical panel says doctor who sparked vaccine scare failed in his duties - AP via ABC News

* ►January 28, 2010 - Wakefield’s conduct profoundly and deeply damaging to public health says Lamb - "The critical thing now is to re-build public confidence and finally lay to rest the suggestion that children’s health is at risk from this vaccine," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary. - Liberal Democrats

►January 28, 2010 - MMR Row Doctor Hits Back At Conduct Claims - Mix 96

* ►January 28, 2010 - MMR Row Doctor Hits Back At Conduct Claims (includes video) - Sky News

* ►January 28, 2010 - Dr Andrew Wakefield 'unethical' in MMR link to autism study - video - The Telegraph, UK

* ►January 28, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield found 'irresponsible' by GMC over MMR vaccine scare - Doctor's research triggered a furore and was direct cause of slump in take-up of MMR, which has led to outbreaks of measles in some parts of the country - The Guardian, UK - "Dr Shona Hilton, of the Medical Research Council, said the scare had a huge impact on parents, undermining their trust in MMR vaccination. 'Thankfully confidence is returning and the uptake of MMR vaccine is increasing,' she said. 'We need to continue rebuilding trust with parents that MMR vaccination is safe and ensure that those parents caring for children with autism do not blame themselves.'"

* ►January 28, 2010 - MMR timeline - The events that led to the GMC ruling against MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield - The Guardian, UK

►January 28, 2010 - U.K. Panel Finds MMR Vaccine Study Leader Acted 'Dishonestly And Irresponsibly' - The Science Business Blog via Forbes

* ►January 28, 2010 - What's happened to measles immunisation - and how do we compare to the rest of the world? - Andrew Wakefield's hearing at the General Medical Council has reignited the issue of MMR vaccination and measles in the UK. What effect has it had on measles vaccinations - and how do we compare to other countries? • Get the data - The Guardian, UK

* ►January 28, 2010 - MMR scare doctor denies wrongdoing - video - BBC

►January 28, 2010 - MMR scare doctor found in breach of duty - Financial Times

►January 28, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield “Acted Unethically” - NeuroLogica Blog

►January 28, 2010 - Doctor who linked vaccination to autism 'unethical' - AFP via Yahoo!

►January 28, 2010 - Wakefield's Research Termed "Dishonest and Irresponsible" - Autism Blog via http://autism.about.com

* ►January 28, 2010 - MMR scare doctor 'acted unethically', panel finds - The doctor who first suggested a link between MMR vaccinations and autism acted unethically, the official medical regulator has found. (includes video) - BBC News

* ►January 28, 2010 - BREAKING: MMR-row doctor failed in his duties - Yorkshire Evening Post, UK - "The doctor at the centre of the MMR controversy "failed in his duties as a responsible consultant" and went against the interests of children in his care, a disciplinary panel ruled today. Dr Andrew Wakefield also acted dishonestly and was misleading and irresponsible in the way he described research which was later published in The Lancet medical journal, the General Medical Council (GMC) said."

* ►January 28, 2010 - MMR row doctor 'abused position of trust' - The Independent, UK - "Panel chairman Dr Surendra Kumar was heckled by distraught parents who support Dr Wakefield as he delivered the verdicts. One woman shouted: "These doctors have not failed our children. You are outrageous." She called the panel of experts "b*******" and accused the GMC of being a "kangaroo court". Another shouted: "This is a set-up."

* ►January 28, 2010 - Andrew Wakefield - doctor who linked MMR to autism - is damned by General Medical Council - The Scotsman

* ►January 28, 2010 - Medical Council Says Wakefield "Failed in His Duties," Was Dishonest. - Age of Autism

* ►January 28, 2010 - Doctors Wakefield, Walker-Smith & Murch lose at GMC hearing - Autism Today Online - "Far too many reputations of powerful politicians and doctors were on the line regarding this decision and these fine researchers have been the scapegoats. While those in the mainstream news media and the medical community in England and abroad have continually told the public that the 1998 study released in the British medical journal, The Lancet, has been “discredited” this is not the case and further supports the supporters of the researchers that corruption is rampant throughout society regarding vaccines. Studies from Dr. Tim Buie, (Harvard), Dr. Krigsman (NY), Dr. Elizebeth Mumper, and Dr Michael Hart  have replicated successfully, the findings of what is known to many as “the Wakefield papers”. Just one day before the GMC ruling, a new research paper has been released that once again, clearly illustrates that this Lancet research was factual and pertinent to the gastrointestinal issues that many autistic children have faced directly after their MMR vaccination."

* ►January 28, 2010 - Wakefield's Science Proven Valid Again In New Study That Replicates Findings - Age of Autism - "Read the full study, Clinical presentation and Histologic Findings at Ileocolonoscopy in Children with Autistic spectrum Disorder and Chronic Gastrointestinal symptoms at Autism Insights . View a .pdf HERE."

* ►January 28, 2010 - Doctor at centre of MMR row faces being struck off after GMC rules autism research was 'misleading' - Daily Mail, UK - "Speaking to the Mail on Sunday at the weekend, Dr Wakefield said he feared the GMC's decision today would be politically-motivated. 'If there's any justice, we should be cleared,' he said. 'However, there's the political backlash to consider. I fear the GMC will want to make an example of us. 'The issue was not about me, but about how to crush dissent. I scare the establishment because I care and I am diligent. 'I think they're terrified because they've not done adequate safety studies. I've been treated in the standard way in which people who raise these kinds of questions are treated. 'It's extremely challenging, but if I fail to stand up to the bullies, the price to be paid is enormous.'"

* ►January 28, 2010 - False Testimony Denies Lancet Doctors a Fair Hearing - Age of Autism - "A First Amended Complaint on behalf of 21 US and UK autism and vaccine safety advocacy organizations against Drs. Horton, Salisbury, Zuckerman, Pegg, and Rutter alleging, inter alia, that they gave false statements and testimony as prosecution witnesses in the proceeding brought by the General Medical Council (GMC) has been filed today.  The false testimony on the two core issues (alleged conflicts of interest and unethical research) has irrevocably corrupted the proceeding against Drs. Wakefield, Walker-Smith, and Murch, and deprived them of a fair hearing."

* ►January 28, 2010 - Organizations File First Amended Complaint at UK General Medical Council - Age of Autism

* ►January 28, 2010 - Q&A: the Wakefield MMR scare - The Times, UK

* ►January 28, 2010 - MMR doctor 'failed to act in interests of children' - General Medical Council finds Dr Andrew Wakefield, who linked MMR with autism, failed in duties as responsible consultant - The Guardian, UK

* ►January 28, 2010 - From the Lancet to the GMC: how Dr Andrew Wakefield fell from grace - Sarah Boseley charts the downfall of the consultant whose report led to a drop in MMR uptake and divided medical opinion - The Guardian, UK - "Opinion is divided in the medical establishment on the wisdom of pursuing Wakefield – and particularly his colleagues who played a lesser role in the drama – at the GMC. Some say there was a clear case to answer and that the GMC had no other option but others believe that no good can come of it."

►January 28, 2010 - MMR scare doctor 'failed in his duties' - Inthenews.co.uk

►January 28, 2010 - 'MMR doctor' to hear GMC decision - Press Association via Southern Daily Echo, UK

* ►January 28, 2010 - Wakefield and autism: the story that will not go away - It is the story that just rumbles on and on. Twelve years have passed since the Lancet medical journal published research linking autism with the MMR vaccine. - BBC

* ►January 28, 2010 - MMR scare doctor to be given verdict on research - The doctor who first suggested the link between MMR vaccinations and autism is to hear whether he is guilty of unethical research practices. - BBC News

* ►January 27, 2010 - Live from the UK: AutismOneRadio Covers the General Medical Council Hearing Decision - Age of Autism - "Join Curt and Kim Linderman reporting with Polly Tommey of The Autism File and others in the U.K. following the verdict on the hearings involving Drs. Wakefield, Murch, and Walker-Smith. ... Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time"

* ►January 27, 2010 - GMC Findings Of Fact On Dr Andrew Wakefield Et Al To Be Announced Tomorrow - The One Click Group

* ►January 27, 2010 - GMC Rally - Dr Wakefield, Murch and Walker-Smith Finding On Facts - GMC Fitness to Practice Hearing on Dr Wakefield, Professors Murch and Walker-Smith - Conclusion to finding of facts: GMC, London 28 January, 2 pm - The One Click Group - "Please be there to support the doctors. Current expectations are that the decision will be announced at 2 pm on the 28th Jan, but do refer to the CryShame website (www.cryshame.co.uk) where news will be posted of any possible changes."

* ►January 27, 2010 - The General Medical Council vs. Wakefield, Walker-Smith, and Murch - Age of Autism

* ►January 27, 2010 - Dr. Andrew Wakefield: "That Paper" - Age of Autism

* ►January 27, 2010 - From The Roman to The Wakefield Inquisition - Age of Autism

* ►January 26, 2010 - "That Paper" by Andrew Wakefield, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCPath - The Autism File via AutismOne

* ►January 26, 2010 - The Devil's in the Detail by Andrew Wakefield, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCPath - The Autism File via AutismOne

* ►January 25, 2010 - The Scandalous History of MMR in the UK By John Stone - Age of Autism - "The updated ChildHealthSafety documentary account tracing events back to a hidden deal between the UK government and the manufacturers in 1988 involving a product already banned in Canada, and the astonishing array of conflicts among Andrew Wakefield’s persecutors, all the way to the present General Medical Council hearing in London can be found here (HERE)."

►January 13, 2009 - Secret British MMR Vaccine Files Forced Open By Legal Action - Child Health Safety - "[Later Updates in Green including January 2010]"

►CRYSHAME parents who support Dr Wakefield, Murch and Walker-Smith - Facebook

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