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Study finds 'no evidence of MMR jab link to autism'



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Published Date: 18 March 2008
By Jane Kirby
A NEW study has found no evidence to support the theory that the MMR vaccination damages the intestine and in turn causes autism.
Researchers examined the so-called "leaky gut" theory, which suggests that vaccines such as MMR can damage the wall of the intestine.

This creates digestive problems which lead to the production of peptides, which can damage the brain and possibly cause autism, according to the theory.

The latest study, from researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital and Edinburgh University, found that children with autism do not produce higher levels of peptides, which are detectable in their urine.

Researchers examined 65 boys aged five to 11 with autism and 158 boys aged four to 11 without autism, who were acting as controls.

The experts found "no significant differences" between the two groups when it came to their levels of peptides.

They said their findings back up earlier studies and claimed theirs was the first to compare properly children with autism with a control group.

The study was published in the journal Archives of Diseases in Childhood.





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  • Last Updated: 17 March 2008 11:03 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: MMR vaccine , Autism
 
1

Guga II,

Rockall 18/03/2008 06:09:28
They would say that, wouldn't they? So why are they still peddling jabs with mercury in them?
2

max mcdowell,

New York City 18/03/2008 07:28:28
A major environmental trigger for autism has already been identified. Michael Waldman's research (2006)[1] has proven that autism is strongly correlated with early childhood exposure to television. Such exposure, like autism, has risen dramatically in recent years.

This research does not prove TV causes autism, but it does prove that there is a link between the two, a link which we cannot afford to ignore.

In scientific terms, Waldman's research is highly convincing. Nevertheless is has been ignored or dismissed. Our culture is so enamored of television and the computer that it resists the accumulating evidence that early over-exposure leads to behavioral problems in children. Parents of autistic children dread feeling blamed and so resist the possibility that their use of television, DVDs, or computer games may inadvertently have triggered autism.

Both the public and many researchers have been misled by the evidence that autism is correlated with genetic factors (Time, 2006)[2]. In fact the genetic evidence shows that genetic factors may predispose an infant to autism, but that genetic factors alone do not cause autism. For example, when one genetically identical twin is autistic, the other is usually not autistic.

Research on autism is often flawed by mechanistic assumptions about the brain. It is now well-established - but not widely understood, even amongst biologists and medical professionals - that biological structures are not mechanisms but dynamic systems. Mechanisms miss-function when a component is faulty - hence people expect a faulty gene to cause autism. Dynamic systems organize themselves with extensive input from the environment. These issues are explained more fully in an on-line article in Dynamical Psychology (2004)[3].

Meanwhile, Waldman's results continue to be highly convincing. They deserve to be taken very seriously indeed.

(My own scientific experience was as a molecular biologist at Duke University, M.I.T., and the M.R.
3

max mcdowell,

New York City 18/03/2008 07:36:13
(the last few lines of my previous comment, with three refernces)

(My own scientific experience was as a molecular biologist at Duke University, M.I.T., and the M.R.C. Laboratories in Cambridge, England.)

Sincerely,
Maxson J. McDowell PhD, LMSW, LP

(1) www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/wald...
(2) www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,15486...
(3) www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2004/Autism04.htm
4

ebbi,

spain 18/03/2008 09:17:19
ummmmm now i wonder who carried out that study?because as far as i know there are hundreds of scientists out there who are more than happy to provide dodgy favourable studies for good financial reward and the pharmaceutical companies have mastered the art of bribery. connection of autism with mmr is well established and proven and if it wasn't because of the influence of the powerful pharmaceutical companies they would have paid billions in compensation.
5

Horrible Cankers at the Cyber Shebeen,

18/03/2008 10:20:32
2...You have not really explained the TV connection...obviously autism has been around prior to the advent of TV...so what would have been the trigger for autism prior to this?
6

John Stone,

N.London 18/03/2008 12:49:47
It is rather misleading to say that a study finds no evidence of an autism MMR link when it was not testing for it, and challenges a different hypothesis. Of course, we do not know presently how representative the sample was - whether it included any cases with history of adverse reaction to MMR, or gut problems - because it has not been made available.

It remains the case that for a sub-group of children with gut related symptoms the diet has proved helpful, and in some cases essential. As with the previous ArchDisChild study the selection of children could sink any significant association if there was one:

http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/adc.2007.122937v1

Either way the MMR hypothesis does not hinge on the the leaky gut theory.

The television hypothesis looks flimsy. Bad viewing habits long pre-date the autism explosion.
7

Horrible Cankers at the Cyber Shebeen,

18/03/2008 17:29:27
6....But do they?....as a child in the seventies, loads of other 'special' kids were sent to 'special' schools because they had been diagnosed 'mentally handicapped'...I am willing to bet a lot of these kids that had been written off as MH were/are actually autistic..plenty of adults are now being diagnosed with autism...the powers that be having decreed them mentally ill or mentally handicapped.....
8

John Stone,

N.London 18/03/2008 23:01:54
Horrible Cankers

You may be willing to bet that, but what about the evidence?

Both in Scotland (and in Haringey where I live) there was a something like 7 fold increase in autism diagnosis between the birth cohorts of 1987 and 1992. In 1999 there was a local audit of SEN and there were (from memory) 109 ASD children of whom only 8 were at secondary education. The very same services that identified the younger ones were on your basis (and the official one) missing about 80 young people in secondary education who would be distressed, unable to cope and disruptive - yet this never happened. This situation was exactly paralled in Scotland where the numbers of ASD children grew from from 820 in 1998 to 3,484 in 2005. Numerous studies have failed to identify any change in diagnostic culture, and it happened while the Government were trying to screw the lid down on Special Educational Needs.



9

Charles Linskaill,

Edinburgh 18/03/2008 23:12:52
You got to ask don't you,?

How much do they get paid to 'spin yarn' like this!,?

They must be 'blue in the face', by now!

Just for the 'record' WE STILL DONT BELIEVE YOU!

The "Researchers" haven't the knowledge or advanced enough, to find the link between MMR and Autism yet,
But 'mark my words' they WILL!

Lets face it! in the year 1850, if you talked 'mobile phones'

You would be classed as 'Nuts' and 'burnt a the stake'

It IS exactly the same as this, but the few that know better,
'KNOW THE TRUTH'!
10

John Stone,

N. London 18/03/2008 23:50:06
Charles

The evidence is being assembled right now as the British establishment prepares to burn Andrew Wakefield:

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/03/the-short-good.html
11

Charles Linskaill,

Edinburgh 19/03/2008 00:01:26
John @#10,

That's the Best comment ever, plus your info web page,

Excellent Absolutely Excellent!!

'CHEERS'

CL.
12

John Stone,

N.London 19/03/2008 00:37:40
Charles

My pleasure.

 

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