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New Research Supports the Theory that Vaccines Cause Autism
- From Dr Hirani
By Dr. Karima Hirani - MD MPH
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No Dr. Hirani!
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 It has not been peer-reviewed.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.
- Ds Advocate July 24, 2008 1:45PM
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Innaccurate
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is unpublished.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 It has not been peer reviewed.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 In your opinion Doctor, which of this papers unpublished findings correlate with the DSM (IV) for autism?
- Kev Leitch
August 8, 2008 2:34AM
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