Educating yourself DOES NOT mean reading all the websites that support your position. You need to read EVERYTHING you can find. And by that I mean facts Before the introduction of a measles vaccine in 1963, hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. contracted the disease annually. Thousands were permanently disabled and between 400 and 500 people died. But since 1963, reported cases fell to less than a thousand a year. Things started changing in 1998 when a British physician published a study in “The Lancet” medical journal that falsely asserted a connection between autism and the combined measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. An investigation into the work revealed the research was unethical and rife with conflicts of interest. The article was filled with false and fraudulent data, and the health care risks described have been completely discredited. In 2010, THE PAPER WAS FULLY RETRACTED from “The Lancet,” a remarkable event in the world of peer-reviewed journals. But the damage was done. Vaccination rates in the UK plummeted and reported cases of measles soared. In the U.S., new measles cases have tripled as of 2013, with reported outbreaks in eight American communities. The recent outbreak in New York City has sickened at least a dozen people.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:08:48 +0000
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