Case closed
I’ve been off-line for awhile, attending to some other issues in life. However, it’s time for a celebration about the anti-vaccination crowd, including Jenny McCarthy. The US Vaccine Court has ruled that there is no scientific evidence linking vaccinations to autism. To quote ruling:
Petitioners' theory of vaccine-related causation is scientifically unsupportable. In the absence of a sound medical theory causally connecting William's received vaccines to his autistic condition, the undersigned cannot find the proposed sequence of cause and effect to be logical or temporally appropriate. Having failed to satisfy their burden of proof under the articulated legal standard, petitioners cannot prevail on their claim of vaccine-related causation.
The peer-reviewed, unbiased science has always shown that there is no causal link between vaccines and autism. And I’m glad that a Federal court has agreed.
And one more key item that should close this issue forever. Dr. Andrew Wakefield, whose discredited and disowned article linking MMR vaccinations to an increase in Autism, has been sanctioned by the UK’s General Medical Council.
The GMC found that Wakefield had flouted the rules in pursuit of his theory – and profit. At the centre of the case against him is the ethical conduct of the trial which resulted in the Lancet paper. The panel found he had subjected 11 children to invasive tests such as lumbar punctures and colonoscopies that they did not need, without ethical approval.
So, the case is closed. Well, maybe not. I’ll let others debunk their pseudoscience, I just want to celebrate.
By Michael W Simpson
Petitioners' theory of vaccine-related causation is scientifically unsupportable. In the absence of a sound medical theory causally connecting William's received vaccines to his autistic condition, the undersigned cannot find the proposed sequence of cause and effect to be logical or temporally appropriate. Having failed to satisfy their burden of proof under the articulated legal standard, petitioners cannot prevail on their claim of vaccine-related causation.
The peer-reviewed, unbiased science has always shown that there is no causal link between vaccines and autism. And I’m glad that a Federal court has agreed.
And one more key item that should close this issue forever. Dr. Andrew Wakefield, whose discredited and disowned article linking MMR vaccinations to an increase in Autism, has been sanctioned by the UK’s General Medical Council.
The GMC found that Wakefield had flouted the rules in pursuit of his theory – and profit. At the centre of the case against him is the ethical conduct of the trial which resulted in the Lancet paper. The panel found he had subjected 11 children to invasive tests such as lumbar punctures and colonoscopies that they did not need, without ethical approval.
So, the case is closed. Well, maybe not. I’ll let others debunk their pseudoscience, I just want to celebrate.
By Michael W Simpson