{"id":194623,"date":"2008-09-04T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/04\/lets-be-clear-on-this-there-is-no-autism-vaccine-link-just-scientists-on-one-side-and-liars-on-the-other\/"},"modified":"2008-09-04T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T04:11:00","slug":"lets-be-clear-on-this-there-is-no-autism-vaccine-link-just-scientists-on-one-side-and-liars-on-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/04\/lets-be-clear-on-this-there-is-no-autism-vaccine-link-just-scientists-on-one-side-and-liars-on-the-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Be Clear on This: There is No Autism-Vaccine Link, Just Scientists On One Side and Liars On the Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the truth and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> reporter Shankar Vedantam manages to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/03\/AR2008090303396.html?hpid=topnews\">ignore the fact that there is no correlation between vaccines and conditions on the autism spectrum<\/a>.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The author mentions that the new study contradicts a 1998 study by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Wakefield\">Andrew Wakefield<\/a>, but ignores the fact that he was accused of, &#8220;suppressing and falsifying data&#8221;, that his co-authors of this study have disavowed his reasearch, and at this time is under investigation for serious professional and financial misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>He faces removal of his medical license as a result.<\/p>\n<p>If there is any justice in the world, he will end up in to jail too.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">There is some dispute as to whether Aspergers is mild Autism, or a different condition on the Autism spectrum, a distinction which I would generally expect a reporter to miss.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the truth and Washington Post reporter Shankar Vedantam manages to ignore the fact that there is no correlation between vaccines and conditions on the autism spectrum.* The author mentions that the new study contradicts a 1998 study by Andrew Wakefield, but ignores the fact that he was accused of, &#8220;suppressing and falsifying data&#8221;, that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}