Posted in reply to the post by Gene:
This study has been completly discredited by the scientific community and has no value. The man has been proven to be a liar. check out what Wiki has to say about it. I believe that anyone of intelligence who checks the data will come to the same conclusion.
Did you check the data??
Did you even have a look at this article whose main authors are from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and was accepted for publication by the peer reviewed journal NeuroToxicology?
This is not the paper the Wikipedia entry on Wakefield talks about. The reference is: Hewitson L, et al. Delayed acquisition of neonatal reflexes in newborn primates receiving a thimerosal-containing Hepatitis B vaccine: Influence of gestational age and birth weight, Neurotoxicology (2009), doi:10.1016/ j.neuro.2009.09.008
More completely:
Delayed acquisition of neonatal reflexes in newborn primates receiving a thimerosal-containing Hepatitis B vaccine: Influence of gestational age and birth weight.
Laura Hewitson a,c,*, Lisa A. Houser a, Carol Stott c, Gene Sackett b, Jaime L. Tomko a, David Atwood d, Lisa Blue d, E. Railey White d, Andrew J. Wakefield c
a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
b Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States
c Thoughtful House Center for Children, Austin, TX 78746, United States
d Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, United States
I think this issue is interesting to follow and am agnostic about the durability of the results of this particular article. Just dismissing this for reason that a co-author was implicated in a retraction does not do. Just dismissing it because of some idea about small sample size without reading the analysis that shows that there is statistical significance for the difference, as Sylph does, will not do either.
As I wrote before I have a copy of the prepublication from NeuroToxicology if someone is interested. Just let me know.