Vol , Issue Date of Publication: October 16, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2014.055

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Commentary – Controversies surrounding mercury in vaccines: autism denial as impediment to universal immunisation

Ritika Chhawchharia
Jacob M Puliyel
Abstract:
In 2004, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) published a paper showing that there is no link between the age at which a child is vaccinated with MMR and the vaccinated children's risk of a subsequent diagnosis of autism. One of the authors, William Thompson, has now revealed that statistically significant information was deliberately omitted from the paper. Thompson first told Dr S Hooker, a researcher on autism, about the manipulation of the data. Hooker analysed the raw data from the CDC study afresh. He confirmed that the risk of autism among African American children vaccinated before the age of 2 years was 340% that of those vaccinated later.


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