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Conflicts of Interest Seem to Outweigh Our Children's Interest
- From NAA
By National Autism Association - Think Autism. Think Cure.
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Incorrect and misleading
I can think of two studies and one report off the top of my head right now which are not epidemiological which refute (and kills) the MMR hypothesis:
Bustin, from Cedillo:
"What I immediately observed was that they had forgotten to do the RT step....If you detect a target that is apparently measles virus in the absence of an RT step by definition it can't be measles virus because it has to be DNA. It's a very simple concept. At least it is to me. It's not to everyone else...[b]ecause measles virus doesn't exist as a DNA molecule in nature, they cannot be detecting measles virus."
Two clinical studies are Afzal ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=16555271&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2 .PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum) and D'Souza ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17015560&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2 .PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum)
- Kev Leitch
August 9, 2008 12:33AM
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