Well well well.....

[Shutpa]

"One Doctor’s Career was Destroyed for Telling the Truth"
You are misinformed. That is not the reason he was struck off.

No John, I am not misinformed. I posted that link because it appeared to support G's thread but at the time of posting I could not have expressed an opinion having a lack of any real knowledge of the case. After as little as an hour of intensive reading after posting the reply to mikeey's post, I now cannot but agree with his opinion on Wakefield. I do not, however, support his apparent view that those who raise threads or even reply to them, should have a certain amount of expertise on the topic raised. Part of the fun of the forum, is not only read and/or perhaps post, completely uneducated opinions.

Check out a real journalistic investigation

I have and it only took an hour or so to be convinced of W's wrongdoings. I look forward to reading more on the subject and am grateful to gasbanni for raising the thread.

 

[JohnD]

This is the third time gasb has brought out his Wakefield hobby-horse, so far this year.

Nice to see you have not run out of gratitude yet.

 

[Shutpa]

This is the third time gasb has brought out his Wakefield hobby-horse, so far this year.

Nice to see you have not run out of gratitude yet.

And it's the second time this week that I have been caught out thinking that a members thread or post was original! I am grateful John, that you have pointed out that W was G's hobby-horse. Silly old me

 

[wobs]

Wakefield is still a fraud. As has been covered here more than once.

Vaccines work, and are safe. There have been so many studies into MMR, so there's hardly a lack of evidence out there.

But in case anyone doubted they worked, I'll just post this again:
https://www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/faqs-about-vaccines#risks
And a handy chart:

 

[JohnD]

Where did you hear that the human body has difficulty coping with more than one weak infection at a time?

How many new viruses do you think a child encounters every day, just from licking their fingers and being sneezed on?

hmmm

"'Is it really safe for babies and children to have several vaccines at once?'
Parents may worry that a child’s immune system will not be able to cope with several vaccines at once. In fact, even a tiny baby’s immune system can cope easily. Starting from birth, babies come into contact with millions of germs every day. It is estimated that the human body contains enough white blood cells to cope with thousands of vaccines at any one time. If a child was given 11 vaccines at once, it would only use about a thousandth of the immune system. It is not a good idea to delay vaccinations to ‘spread the load’, because it leaves the child unprotected against serious diseases for longer. See our page on Combination and Multiple Vaccinations.


Vaccines also challenge the immune system less than a disease does. This is because they use only part of the bacteria or virus that causes the disease, or a weakened form of the bacteria or virus. This is enough to make the body produce antibodies, but not enough to cause illness."

http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/faqs-about-vaccines#risks

 

[wobs]

https://www.autismspeaks.org/scienc...k-large-study-vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated-kids

In the largest-ever study of its kind, researchers again found that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine did not increase risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This proved true even among children already considered at high risk for the disorder.

In all, the researchers analyzed the health records of 95,727 children, including more than 15,000 children unvaccinated at age 2 and more than 8,000 still unvaccinated at age 5. Nearly 2,000 of these children were considered at risk for autism because they were born into families that already had a child with the disorder.