New Research Supports the Theory that Vaccines Cause Autism
Recently, groundbreaking research provides even more science supporting the theory that vaccines can and do cause autism. Using infant macaque monkeys, University of Pittsburgh’s Dr. Laura Hewitson, Ph.D., described how vaccinated animals when compared to unvaccinated animals, showed significant neurodevelopmental deficits and “significant associations between specific aberrant social and non-social behaviors, isotope binding and vaccine exposure. The vaccinated animals exhibited progressively severe chronic active inflammation whereas unexposed animals did not and the researchers found many significant differences in the GI tissue gene expression profiles between vaccinated and unvaccinated animals. Gastrointestinal issues are a common symptom of children with regressive autism.
This study was unveiled at the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) weekend of may 17th, 2008. This research underscores the critical need for studies into vaccine safety and the immune and mitochondrial dysfunction of autistic children.
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This study which is:
1) Conducted by someone who is part of the Omnibus Autism proceedings and
2) married to someone who works at Thoughtful House
is unpublished. It formed part of a poster presentation at IMFAR. It has not been peer reviewed. Further, the findings it presented as being associated with autism were bizarre. In your opinion Doctor, which of this papers unpublished findings correlate with the DSM (IV) for autism?
This was a poster presented at the AACR meeting (a vaccine-basing get-together). It has not been peer-reviewed. It has not been published. Until it has been, it is nothing more than a claim. It is NOT a bonafide study to reference as evidence.
Be sure to note too that the lead researcher Laura Hewiston is a mother of an autistic child and she and her husband are listed as litigants in the Autism Omnibus proceedings.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=100
As someone who represents herself as a doctor, and one who has suggested conflicts of interest in some of her other posts, it would have been wise for you to do a little homework before posting commentary on this topic the way you have.