You didn't see that headline in the mainstream media, did you? Of course not. However, the accusation - made by a reporter, not a doctor - discrediting Dr. Andrew Wakefield's studies on autistm made headlines everywhere, and the public was deliberately deluded into believing that any connection between autism and vaccines was a hoax.
Today,an article in http://tvnewslies.org shows that autism advocacy organizations as well as parent groups are urging both scientists and journalists to do more thorough research into vaccines and autism. They believe that the "...libelous accusations are based on the flimsiest possible construct."
Most recent CDC statistics show that autism is now diagnosed in one out of every 110 children in the U.S. We cannot simply accept a single report by one British freelance journalist, Brian Deer, as the final word on a condition that plagues one per cent of the children in this country. Still, the corporate media in the US have allowed it to become the final word, and have left the nation with the unchallenged conclusion that Dr. Wakefield falsified his research for some nefarious reasons.
That is as outrageous as it is dangerous. None of the news stories referred to any of the peer review papers both supporting and/or replicating Dr. Wakefield's studies. What they did was leave the public with the conclusion that there was no doubt that Dr. Andrew Wakefield perpetrated a deliberate fraud and that his research regarding autism should be summarily dismissed as worthless.
Please read the full article and share it with others. This is a most serious and increasingly pervasive disorder that must be examined with an open mind by medical experts, not reporters who make unfounded accusations.
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