The Italian court that linked MMR with autism used Wakefield's BS from the Lancet as its "proof" [View all]
That's right, the Judge accepted as "overwhelming evidence" the thoroughly discredited and rescinded Wakefield paper as proof of the link between autism and the MMR vaccine.
Obviously, the Scientific Board of Vaccination schedules is not taking this lying down and wrote a very strong response to both the judge and the Ministry of Health, which is expected to appeal the decision.
Original Italian article found below:
http://www.agi.it/cronaca/notizie/201204101355-cro-rt10101-salute_sconcerto_per_legame_vaccino_trivalente_mpr_e_autismo
Google Translate highlights (so ignore the grammar and strange words)
The Scientific Board of the Vaccine Schedule for Life, which brings together figures of high standing of Hygiene and Health 'Public, General Medicine, Pediatrics, the territorial hospital and university-company headed by' Scientific and Medical Associations - Societa 'Italian of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Health 'Public (SItI); Italian Federation of General Practitioners (FIMMG); Italian Federation Doctors Paediatricians (FIMP); Company' Italian of Pediatrics (SIP), expressed "strong dismay at the recent judgment of the Court The Rimini returns to associate vaccine Measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), Kanner's Syndrome, better known as Autism. " The medical journal Lancet, says a note of Federations, has officially withdrawn the study on possible links between autism and MMR trivalent vaccine. The article, published in 1998 and written by British doctor Andrew Wakefield, and 'was due to a long scientific dispute lasted almost 12 years.
Wakefield claimed that the vaccine was due to intestinal infections, in turn linked to Kanner's syndrome. His claims were discredited by the scientific world, and were at the base of one of the most 'major litigation in the history of medicine. Unfortunately, the note continues, the false thesis proposals led to a strong decrease in the number of vaccinations in the United States, Britain and other parts of Europe, with the result, in many cases disastrous, a sudden increase in cases of measles and its complications, including several cases of encephalitis and death.
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The board "recommends that those who are 'called to judge - Commissions under Law 210/92 included - take the most rigorous scientific and especially sustainability' of claims, judgments and assessments based on acquisitions universally recognized. It is also unusual that the judgment can ignore the motives and actions of the community 'in both national and international, inter alia, has the right and duty to protect all workers for the sole purpose to practice the profession with the necessary medical and legal guarantees. Unfortunately, decisions like the one just issued are likely to have only one result in loss of confidence in a key preventive tool for the health of children and the entire population, with subsequent re-emergence of serious and sometimes fatal diseases such as measles, leading however, the parents of children with a serious illness such as autism the false belief that he had found the reason of so many sufferings.
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Finally, "the Board expects that the Ministry of Health as a defendant in the case which challenged the decision at first instance, wants to propose at the Appeal Court of Bologna. In this regard, the Board members are willing to assist the Attorney State by providing advice and literature that serves to reiterate the lex artis and in particular the inability 'to configure the specific immunization with prior causal value in causing autism. "
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So, in conclusion, the entire court case is based on discredited bullshit and has almost no chance at all of surviving an appeal.
I really thought we saw the end of the Wakefield/Lancet bullshit. Guess not.
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