Good News about Vaccinations
(The picture is of my son’s leg after getting his vaccinations)
Andrew Wakefield kicked off the anti vaccination movement with his paper published in 1998 that claimed to show a link between Autism and vaccines. His findings have been proven false over and over again. It was also found that he most likely faked his data.
Last week the UK’s General Medical Council found that Andrew Wakefield acted “dishonestly and irresponsibly” when doing his research. And now The Lancet (who published the paper) has issued a full retraction.
This is very good news and I hope that this will help put parents concerns about vaccinating their children to rest.
In other news, Bill Gates has committed $10 Billion (yes Billion!) to develop and deliver vaccines to children in the developing world. “We must make this the decade of vaccines,” said Bill Gates. “Vaccines already save and improve millions of lives in developing countries. Innovation will make it possible to save more children than ever before.”
I get a daily email from the American Council on Science and Health called “Health Facts and Fears”. In that news letter Dr Gilbert Ross is quoted as saying of Bill Gates, “We must give credit to him for taking a very effective, targeted, lifesaving approach to charitable giving as opposed to activists, who prefer to wage irrational attacks on substances that have no nexus with human health.”
I’m a Mac girl but this makes me want to buy a PC!
Weekend Links – Parenting from Scratch Said,
February 6, 2010 @ 8:02 am
[...] not a vaccination-activist, but we are having Sadie vaccinated, and I thought this post was [...]
Jodi Said,
February 6, 2010 @ 7:29 pm
Despite the retraction of Wakefield’s study and all the evidence come to light about his research, Jenny McCarthy still believes in him and his findings. She calls the study retraction censorship:
http://www.generationrescue.org/wakefield_statement2.html
It’s a rebuttal that is as full of holes as Wakefield’s data.