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Report Linking Vaccine to Autism 'Fraudulent'

Evidence published beach p90x a decade ago, giving birth to the belief of a connection between vaccines and autism, has been deemed outright "fraudulent," according to an editorial published Wednesday in the British Medical Journal.

 Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a former British surgeon, published research that seemed to establish a link between vaccines and autism. But authors of the editorial confirmed previous suggestions coach outlet that Wakefield skewed patients' medical records to support his hypothesis that the combination measles mumps rubella (MMR) vaccine was causing autism and irritable bowel disease. "Clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging vaccine scare," the authors wrote in the editorial.

According to the editorial, Wakefield stood moncler jacket to gain financially from his purported findings because of his involvement in a lawsuit against manufacturers of the MMR vaccine. Wakefield's representatives would not offer an on-the-record comment today.

 The editorial may not be enough to dissuade many people who believe in Wakefield's claims, no matter how compelling the scientific evidence, according to Dr. Paul Offit, chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. "It's unfair for the BMJ to call him a fraud, because as a fraud you gucci bag have to have mal intent," said Offit. "But if you give Wakefield a lie detector test and ask him if he thinks MMR causes autism, he'd say yes. And he would probably pass, because he holds to it as one holds to a religious belief." Science Lost in Personal Stories The hypothesis was first introduced in 1998 in a study by Wakefield. His paper, published in The Lancet, tied autism and bowel disease to the measles vaccine.

It has since been roundly discredited. Critics said Wakefield's chanel bag paper used fabricated data to find a link between the MMR vaccine and the onset of what he described as "behavioral symptoms." And although the paper was retracted from the journal in February 2010, the belief remains among some doctors and many parents of children with autism. Colleen McGrath, 42, of San Diego, Cali, heard Wakefield speak at a local autism conference in July 2010 and said she knew she was doing the right thing by selectively choosing which vaccines would be best for her two children. WATB0505