mmr

Well this ought to be interesting:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19163717 The organisation still claims though: http://www.babyjabs.co.uk/mmr.htm

Via JackofKent on Twitter who does comment it's not been verified as yet: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/01/legal_thuggery_antivaccine_edition_andre.php?utm_source=selectfeed&utm_medium=rss I hope it's true; the anti-vaccine crowd have caused so much mischief. Let's see him try to...

Hello All, Well not 16 actually, more like 21. It seems that I was unfortunate enough to be a child at a time that the link between vaccinations and autism was being heavily publicised by the British press. My mother denied me the MMR jab (In fact I haven't had any Jabs as far as I know...

This just in from Orac at Respectful Insolence: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/06/andrew_wakefield_exactly_where_he_belong.php So should this thread be elsewhere? Humor? Paranormal? Conspiracy?

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23837469-callous-doctor-who-claimed-mmr-jab-causes-child-autism-is-struck-off.do About time too.

Following recent announcements that Wakers is looking for a new position that will entail him using his skills to help children, I have pleasure in revealing his new job. [courtesy of a link from someone called Jennifer Phillips over at orac] Too good not to share.

Read more: http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/?p=3684#ixzz0YvkzzXU9

I have an antivaxxer on my FB page who insists that herd immunity is a myth, because vaccines wear off over time and people aren't protected by their vaccine induced antibodies after several years. He mentioned the MMR vaccine in particular. Could I get some information about herd immunity? Is...

I see that measles is on the rise yet again in the UK (and probably elsewhere) and that deaths are predicted and this is due to ... low vaccination rates. Can anyone explain why it makes more sense to listen to someone like Jenny McCarthy (who is, admittedly, quite yummy eye-candy, but is not...

I've never watched this show before but it was about a mother with 3 boys, one autistic (the oldest) and the other two had not been vaccinated. One of the boys caught measles and the doctor vaccinated the other boy in direct opposition to the mother. It made antivaxers look selfish, ignorant...

More here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5683671.ece

Well it seems to have taken just under 2 months to go from this story, to this one and this one. In case people start to blame immigration* for the lack of take up of the vaccinations, the borough of Kensington and Chelsea has a take up of the MMR of 39%. 39%! Do we really have to wait until...

Andrew Wakefield, the discredited researcher whose discredited theory that MMR caused autism, left the UK some time ago to set up shop in the US, where he set up Thoughtful House, a centre for children with autism. It appears that he is trying to relaunch his clinical career by establishing...

I see a fair amount of woo relating to vaccination on teh interweb, but I have seldom seen malignant stupidity displayed at the incandescent temperature of this particular antivax blog rant. It dates from last year, but is just so ridiculous that I just had to share for you to either laugh at or...

Not that this will change the minds of the rabid anti-vaxers, but it might help rid the lingering doubt in the general public. Interestingly this study was authored by one of the mercury militia - Mandy Hornig. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003140...

From the UK Guardian's Comment is Free section. Antivax nutjob gets his come-uppance in the comments. Enjoy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0946228920080410?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0 More fun facts about vaccines. The article make the good point that many countries don't vaccinate, so while people are completely silly to avoid vaccination, statistically they are a small part of...

For ages the antivaxers have been bemoaning the preponderance of epidemiological studies on autism, and wondering why more studies are not done on autistic kids. Well Wakefield tried, but produced a crock of **** for results. Now some docs in London have studied autistics and controls, and...

Well, not really. ;) But one could interpret the results of the latest study that failed to find a link between MMR vaccination and autism as demonstrating vaccination is protective: For those who can't access it, here is the abstract. A prediction: The study is bound to be dismissed by...

These issues keep coming up, in all kinds of threads. Mercury was blamed for causing autism, but that doesn't seem to be a direct cause, because even with mercury banned from being injected into kids, (except Flu vaccines), autism is still rising in industrialized nations. Then too, there is...

....is the front page headline in today's graniund.. subheadline Experts 'concerned' by dramatic rise Questions over triple jab for children http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2121521,00.html I predict a new MMR storm is about to break..... Anyone with any access to the raw data...

There's been a lot of good blog posts about autism, MMR and Holford going up in the past day or so. Links are below - happy reading! http://breathspakids.blogspot.com/2007/06/patrick-holford-and-dr-andrew.html Patrick Holford and Dr Andrew Wakefield's Discredited Findings: Part 1...

So says a new study of mothers' attitudes, as reported by the BBC "And the proportion of parents believing MMR is a greater risk than infection with measles, mumps or rubella fell from 24% in 2002 to 14% in 2006. 'Hard-core rejecters' of the vaccine only account for 6% of mothers, the figures...

You may recall our old friend, Dr Andrew Wakefield and his research team who seem to have spent years fruitlessly trying to find something to back up their 1998 claims about measles vaccination and autism. In 2002, his team published a study (full text here if you can access it) apparently...

A survey of 27749 children in Quebec. Autism increased even after thiomersal had been removed from vaccines. Autism increased even when MMR uptake rates decreased. Abstract Yet, I think a negative perception will still persist? How many more studies will it take to convince the public? Why...

Hot on the heels of last weeks revelations that we are heading for a record number of measles cases this year, the Mail on Sunday/Daily Mail has got its knickers in a twist again about the vaccine. First a column in the Mail on Sunday yesterday by Peter Hitchens, and also a story about 2...

Anyone got any more detail on this? I'm guessing misleading reporting, as seems to be usual with vaccine stuff, but I await the experts! US scientists back autism link to MMR

Ben Goldacre spreads the word. http://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?sid=103115

The answer was a resounding "No" Did anyone else see this? A pretty comprehensive programme which covered the issue from Wakefield's first paper up to soon-to-be published studies which looked for correlations between autism and traces of measles virus. The Danish study, the Japanese...