Quote Originally Posted by Kris View Post

So, I am sorry, but I do COMPUTE. Yes, people are well within their rights to make choices about their own bodies. But, those choices often come off the back of poor studies (of TWELVE people in Dr Wakefield's damaging paper).

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The problem with the Wakefield study wasn't that it was underpowered, having only twelve subjects, it wasn't that the methodology was poor (although some of the investigations that he undertook were appaling abuses and he was rightfully struck off), the problem was that he just plain made up the results.

This paper, although proven to be false, has resulted in mass morbidity and mortality worldwide and still does because someone made up their research and had it published in a leading journal.

It has since been shown in numerous studies that there is NO proven link between MMR vaccine and autism.

Now if we're talking about mercury in vaccinations very few vaccines have thimerosal (not mercury) in it and most, including MMR, have never had it in them. Plus, again, there is no link between thimerosal and autism. If you're worried about thimerosal just ask if the vaccine contains it, the chances are it doesn't, and if it does the chances are there is an alternative.