The Vaccine “Loophole” and Other Myths

By Ammoland

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- In 1998, a group of physicians published a small case study involving just 12 patients in the respected medical journal Lancet, claiming that their results indicated a link between the mumps-measles-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.

The story received wide publicity in the media and spawned a tidal wave of public concern, as well as multiple large follow-up studies—none of which supported their conclusion.

In the years since publication, Lancet and all of the authors have retracted the 1998 study in its entirety. It has been convincingly demonstrated that the results were not simply incorrect, but were fabricated, a deliberate fraud perpetrated for financial gain—the lead author had received funding from lawyers representing parents suing vaccine manufacturers.

The retractions, however, received very little media attention.

Despite the authors and their report being thoroughly discredited, with subsequent reams of peer reviewed data thoroughly refuting any link, the myth of “vaccine induced autism” persists.

Of course there are complications associated with vaccines, but fortunately these are rare, and do not include autism. But heartbroken and desperate parents are all …Read the Rest

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