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Originally Posted by weirdwolf  Whilst I am very sorry that your son has a disability the immunization link to autism has been disproved by numerous studies. |
I'm sorry but I think that statement is just as much "bad science" as the daily Mail article that Paul kicked this thread off with. No study has ever "disproved" a link between MMR and autism. Numerous studies have failed to find a link but that is emphatically NOT the same as disproving a link.
There is much talk of Andrew Wakefield's research being discredited but has it really? I remember reading that he had not been completely open about who was funding his research but I have never seen, in any media, anyone suggesting that he faked evidence or that his methodology was flawed. Of course this could just be another example of the media having a field day with the original scare story and not bothering with the "it was all a panic over nothing, weren't we silly to get you all worked up" story. I don't know.
What I do know is that if my boys (both of whom had the MMR, fortunately without any serious side effects) were born today they'd get the measles vaccine - privately if necessary - but they wouldn't get the MMR.
Dave P.