Like virtually any other medical breakthrough, technical or scientific history, vaccines have always had detractors.
In recent years these were based much of his anti-vaccine in a study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield published in The Lancet -Wakefield suggesting that he dared not say categorically that there was "a relationship between the administration of MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) and the development of autism in children who had been given.
Fortunately, although very late, up to early last year, The Lancet announced the withdrawal of the study in question, originally published in 1998, it had found several items that were incorrect.
And shortly after the General Medical Council United Kingdom withdrew its license after finding that Wakefield acted unethically, especially subjecting children who had been part of the study probably unnecessary testing without parental permission.
But what had happened, although he knew that no other study had replicated the results of Wakefield, is a journalist Brian Deer research published in 2009 and pulled to the ground throughout the study and showed that it was a fraud and which, among other things Wakefield had altered the patient data to make them fit with the results I wanted.
Specifically, only one of 12 children who participated in the study-a figure too low to start, was diagnosed with autism, rather than the nine who said Wakefield.
other hand, of the 12 children involved, five already had been diagnosed with developmental problems before starting the study, while Wakefield said that all were healthy.
addition, these children were selected from families associated with vaccinia groups, and funding for the study came from a lawyer which aimed to sue the pharmaceutical manufacturers of the vaccine.
The magnificent work of Deer, which can be read in The MMR-autism fraud - our story so far , has gone back to the light these days because the BMJ (British Medical Journal) has just started publishing a series articles written about by Deer, the first of which can be read in How The Case Against the MMR vaccine WAS fixed.
seems indisputable that Wakefield acted in bad faith, also burned by past failures when trying to prove his theories more or less equally crazy, but this case also sheds light on the relatively easy it is to sink a case study at a prestigious publication as The Lancet, thanks to the confidentiality of patient information. In fact, Deer led him neither more nor less than five years get all the pieces of this story.
What is amazing after all this is that Wakefield is still practicing as a doctor without much problem in the United States.
But the worst is no doubt that his fraudulent research has contributed to a decline in the number of vaccinations, and that kills .
(I saw the link to the articles of BMJ Amazings , but researching the subject I found the link to the article Deer original Magonia. Photo: flu shot (cc ) peapodsquadmom). C & P
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