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[Volimar]

In case your facebook feeds weren't full of this shit already.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/27/health/irpt-cdc-autism-vaccine-study/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

(CNN) -- A study published earlier this month on an alleged link between vaccines and autism has been removed from the public domain pending further investigation, according to Translational Neurodegeneration. In an online statement, the scientific journal said the paper had been removed "because of serious concerns about the validity of its conclusions."

CNN first became aware of the study when an iReport was posted about its publication and the controversy surrounding it.

Brian Hooker, author of the study and a biochemical engineer, found African-American boys who were given the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, known as MMR, before age 24 months were more likely to be diagnosed with autism. To reach this conclusion, Hooker said he analyzed the same set of data that was the basis for a 2004 study done by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2004, scientists at the CDC's National Immunization Program published their study in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers compared 624 children with autism, age 3 to 10, with 1,824 developmentally healthy children. Most of the children, according to the study, were vaccinated between 12 and 17 months of age in accordance with vaccination recommendations.

The CDC study authors found no link between the age children were given their first MMR vaccination and autism diagnoses. Nor did they find a statistically significant increased risk for a particular racial group.

More at the link.


The nuts are gonna go even more rabid with the removal of the study. CONSPIRACY!

Btw, here's a good link to read up on the current controversy.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astr...spiracy_theory_sweeping_the_social_media.html

 

[benjipwns]

I see your so-called "peer review" and "scientific method" and debunk it:

this is beyond the pale. Is Dr. Hooker safe? This is just unbelievable! The CDC is out of control.

Nothing would make my day more than if another whistleblower grew a pair and stepped forward. (I can dream, can't I?) In this case, there is safely in numbers. The CDC\Big Pharma thugs could make one person "go away" via a mysterious car wreck or sudden "suicide", but no one is going to believe it if it happens to two or more in quick succession.

Yea the public can't handle the truth!! So many people doing the devils work for him. How many times have you heard "there are studies that prove there is no link to vaccines & autism? Hitler- Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, & eventually they will believe it.

 

[Popstar]

So the original study found no link between autism diagnoses and the vaccine. But breaking out african-american boys shows a link that must have been balanced out by the rest of the population in the study... OMG

MMR Vaccine Protects Against Autism in European-American children!

 

[benjipwns]

I bet they showed a higher incidence of cystic fibrosis and sickle cell too.