Immunizations are SAFE. Reports to the contrary are FAKE.

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I hate fake science.  No, I am not talking about “political science” or the like- but reports that purport to employ scientific principles or methods that are just plain fake.  For years, I have been dealing with patients, parents, and individuals who claim that childhood immunizations create havoc in children- especially when they assert it leads to the autism rates that seem to be exploding among our youth.  As recently as a month ago,  a series of fraudulent reports were spreading like wildfire on Facebook.

The facts are clear now- the “scientific publication” these charlatans employ to scare the public is an absolute FRAUD. The data involved in the 1998 Wakefield et. al. paper were totally doctored (pun intended).  The report itself has been recently renounced by 10 of its 13 authors.  The Lancet recanted (retracted) the publication) last year.  [This is not something that happens in science.]  It’s time to put such malarkey where it belongs- in the trash bin.

You see, it turns out that five of the 12 children that had been claimed to have suffered as a result of the MMR injection already displayed developmental disabilities.  The other seven cases were also involved in record alteration.  Brian Deer reported these results in the British Medical Journal.  (Wakefield has been stripped of his right to practice medicine in Britain last May; he currently resides in the US.)

The problem with this sort of ruse is that children have been put at risk unnecessarily.  The incidence of measles has surged worldwide (having almost been eradicated); epidemics of this disease have occurred as recently as 2008.

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9 thoughts on “Immunizations are SAFE. Reports to the contrary are FAKE.”

  1. Kimberlee Cabreros Thanks for your comment. I have not checked it against Safari- just IE and Firefox. I will do so later this week and get back to you. Thanks for your comment. Thanks, RAAckerman

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