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Safety studies of medicines are typically conducted in monkeys prior to use in humans, yet such basic research on the current childhood vaccination regimen has never before been done.
Originally posted by JibbyJedi
Safety studies of medicines are typically conducted in monkeys prior to use in humans, yet such basic research on the current childhood vaccination regimen has never before been done.
www.safeminds.org...
Excuse me... ummmm.... yeah.
Alrighty then.
Sooooo.... yeah, I guess I can't really top that statement.
Thanks for calling those of us nutters who don't trust the gov't propaganda about vaccines.
Originally posted by FurvusRexCaeli
reply to post by rory212
I guess we shouldn't vaccinate infant monkeys. Autism rates in humans, however, are conclusively not correlated with vaccination.
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
Ok so I have found a little more out about this study. This is not recent. It comes from 2008 and is apparently actually the work of Andrew Wakefield. For those who don't know Wakefield he was a major advocate of the autism-vaccine link and published a paper in 1998 supporting the claim. Since that time Wakefield's research has been found to be primarily made-up. In February 2008 he had his medical license revoked and in 2010 30 different charges related to his work were proven among which included a dozen charges related to the abuse of developmentally challenged children. Shortly before his license was revoked he submitted a paper to the journal NeuroToxicology but the paper was not published after he was exposed. This paper was then pretty much broken up into three different papers which his proteges attempted to have published. This paper is one of them. In fact if you check out the abstract it even has a special thanks section for Wakeman. I'll see if I can turn up a peer-reviewed rebuttal to this paper but in the mean time here is a response from Scienceblogs.
Too much vaccine/autism monkey business for me to be involved in--but apparently not Laura Hewitson
In the program for the conference, the 7th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), there are three separate presentations listed that report results from the overall research program. The first, an oral presentation entitled "Pediatric Vaccines Influence Primate Behavior, and Amygdala Growth and Opioid Ligand Binding" (the "amygdala abstract") was led by Dr. Hewitson and lists 12 co-authors, including five of her colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh and Dr. Wakefield. Other authors are chemists, pathologists and psychologists from the universities of Kentucky, California-Irvine, and Washington. www.whale.to...
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by frazzle
As I said in my other post these findings, along with two other presented papers, originally came from a paper submitted to NeuroToxicology that had Wakeman as the lead researcher. When Wakeman had his license revoked the paper was rejected. The findings of the paper were then split up into three separate papers that Wakeman's proteges attempted to have published. This is one of them. In a means to help the paper be published Wakeman was removed as an author and simply relegated to a special thanks.
Originally posted by strangedays
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by frazzle
As I said in my other post these findings, along with two other presented papers, originally came from a paper submitted to NeuroToxicology that had Wakeman as the lead researcher. When Wakeman had his license revoked the paper was rejected. The findings of the paper were then split up into three separate papers that Wakeman's proteges attempted to have published. This is one of them. In a means to help the paper be published Wakeman was removed as an author and simply relegated to a special thanks.
Not being rude but I think you are talking about Anrew Wakefield. Just fyi.