MMR vaccine vs. Autism?

Question

so far i have found information saying 'MMR vaccine does not cause autism', but where can i find information saying 'MMR VACCINE does cause autism'...or where can i get information about where this theory came from?

Answer 1

the guys name is Andrew Wakefield and there is a whole page about such things here:http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category... The page shows why these theories  were untrue and widely disproved and such!

Answer 2

I think it initially came from the metals(mercury) that USED to be used in vaccines - but isn't anymore.  Now the theory is that the vaccine itself caused something.  However they have tested this repeatedly and it has never been proved. Also some parents say that the first symptoms started appearing around the time their child received the vaccine.

Answer 3

The whole theory came from one scientists research, that had been published with little peer review, i can not for the life of me remember that man's name, but if you find that, then you will get pretty much all the data he got. Although, he has since been WIDELY discredited in the field, so there is no REAL arguments against the MMR, people just keep stuck to that person's theory with little regard to the while truth.

edit: It something Wakefield!

edit: That's the one eric! thank you!

Answer 4

Even though there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism and plenty of evidence against it, there will continue to be parents who will be against vaccinations because they believe what they want regardless of the evidence.

Answer 5

The hypothesis (idea) came from a man who was being paid to prove that the measles part of the MMR caused autism.  With a sample of 12 patients, most of them alreready part of a law against the vaccinemankers, he ran some jtests forthe measles virus ...the first lab found none. So he went to another lab and they gave him the results he was looking for.

Andrew Wakefield, a Canadian trained surgeon, was was lead author on a 1998 study which reported bowel symptoms and the presence of measles virus in a selected sample of twelve vaccinated children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and other disabilities.  Although it was not mentioned in the study Wakefield called a press conference at which he announced, rather to the surprise of his co-authors,  that the cause of autism was possibly MMR

and individual vaccines rather than MMR should be given.  

The inevitable furore caused a significant drop in MMR uptake. Subsequently it was revealed that Wakefield was being paid large sums by solicitors for parents in the process of suing the manufacturers of MMR vaccine and the children concerned were children of some of those parents.  He had also patented a "safer" single measles virus vaccine a short time before the report was published.

10 of the reports 13 authors subsequently withdrew their names from the study and the Lancet, which had published the study, withdrew it when they became aware of the conflict of interest.

Later it was proven that actually no measles virus had been detected during the study so its conclusions were unjustified.  The samples used for  tests carried out by Dr O'Leary in Dublin were contaminated in his laboratory (which has since closed) and  this contamination mislead the researchers.

In his study Wakefield also suppressed evidence from Dr. Stephen Bustin, probably the worlds leading expert on work of the type carried out at O'Learys commercial laboratory, which showed an absence of measles virus in gut samples he analysed for Wakefield.  Only after Bustins negative findings did Wakefield use O'Leary (who was also carrying out work for the same solicitors paying Wakefield).

Interestingly, the strain of measles Wakefield found is NOT the same as the strain used in vaccines ...it was alabcontaminant.