Re: Letter to NY Post published

[Guest guest]

Surprisingly..the NY Post published my letter in response to:

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Junk science kills

Who'll apologize to dead kids?

By ELIZABETH M. WHELAN

Last Updated: 9:51 AM, February 4, 2010

Posted: 12:47 AM, February 4, 2010

The media gave big headlines to this week's stories on a prestigious British medical publication's retraction of an article that had claimed to show a causal link between standard childhood vaccinations (measles, mumps and rubella) and autism.

Yet the coverage of the Lancet affair didn't truly convey the outrageousness of the original publication or the gravity of its consequences -- consequences long festering, since the paper was published not last week but 12 years ago.

Many of us in the scientific community recognized the "study" as junk when it appeared in 1998. Even before we learned of then-unknown ethical failings by its lead author, we knew the study was based on a tiny population of only 12 children. More, it relied on a novel methodology that assumed some bizarre, previously unheard of, association between children's autism and their manifestation of intestinal problems.

cont'd........

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There's still no cure for bogus science

Whelan says she knew the article claiming to show a link between standard childhood vaccinations and autism was "junk," because "it relied upon a novel methodology that assumed some bizarre, previously unheard of, association between children's autism and their manifestation of intestinal problems."

As the proud grandfather of a lovable, 10-year-old, nonverbal boy who was diagnosed with autism, I can assure Whelan that connecting my grandson's autism and his intestinal problems was no "bizarre assumption."

The widespread rumors of a vaccine-autism link will prevail because, after decades of opportunity to do so, the scientific community cannot explain why one in every 110 children is being diagnosed with autism, and why thousands of them will require treatment for gastrointestinal problems.

Bob Moffitt

Sloatsburg

[Guest guest]

Way to go Bob.

>

> Surprisingly..the NY Post published my letter in response to:

> ----------------------------------------------------------

> Junk science kills

>

> Who'll apologize to dead kids?

> By ELIZABETH M. WHELAN

> Last Updated: 9:51 AM, February 4, 2010

> Posted: 12:47 AM, February 4, 2010

>

> The media gave big headlines to this week's stories on a prestigious

> British medical publication's retraction of an article that had claimed to

show

> a causal link between standard childhood vaccinations (measles, mumps and

> rubella) and autism.

> Yet the coverage of the Lancet affair didn't truly convey the

> outrageousness of the original publication or the gravity of its consequences

--

> consequences long festering, since the paper was published not last week but

12

> years ago.

> Many of us in the scientific community recognized the " study " as junk when

> it appeared in 1998. Even before we learned of then-unknown ethical

> failings by its lead author, we knew the study was based on a tiny population

of

> only 12 children. More, it relied on a novel methodology that assumed some

> bizarre, previously unheard of, association between children's autism and

> their manifestation of intestinal problems.

> cont'd........

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> _http://tinyurl.com/yzzoh6l_ (http://tinyurl.com/yzzoh6l)

>

> There's still no cure for bogus science

>

>

> Whelan says she knew the article claiming to show a link between standard

> childhood vaccinations and autism was " junk, " because " it relied upon a

> novel methodology that assumed some bizarre, previously unheard of,

association

> between children's autism and their manifestation of intestinal problems. "

>

> As the proud grandfather of a lovable, 10-year-old, nonverbal boy who was

> diagnosed with autism, I can assure Whelan that connecting my grandson's

> autism and his intestinal problems was no " bizarre assumption. "

> The widespread rumors of a vaccine-autism link will prevail because, after

> decades of opportunity to do so, the scientific community cannot explain

> why one in every 110 children is being diagnosed with autism, and why

> thousands of them will require treatment for gastrointestinal problems.

> Bob Moffitt

> Sloatsburg

>

[Guest guest]

good work Bob

Sheri

At 04:59 AM 2/8/2010, you wrote:

Surprisingly..the NY Post

published my letter in response to:

----------------------------------------------------------

Junk science kills

Who'll apologize to dead

kids?

By ELIZABETH M. WHELAN

Last Updated: 9:51 AM, February 4, 2010

Posted: 12:47 AM, February 4, 2010

The media gave big headlines to this week's stories on a

prestigious British medical publication's retraction of an article that

had claimed to show a causal link between standard childhood vaccinations

(measles, mumps and rubella) and autism.

Yet the coverage of the Lancet affair didn't truly convey the

outrageousness of the original publication or the gravity of its

consequences -- consequences long festering, since the paper was

published not last week but 12 years ago.

Many of us in the scientific community recognized the

" study " as junk when it appeared in 1998. Even before we

learned of then-unknown ethical failings by its lead author, we knew the

study was based on a tiny population of only 12 children. More, it relied

on a novel methodology that assumed some bizarre, previously unheard of,

association between children's autism and their manifestation of

intestinal problems.

cont'd........

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

http://tinyurl.com/yzzoh6l

There's still no cure for bogus science

Whelan says she knew the article claiming to show a link between

standard childhood vaccinations and autism was " junk, " because

" it relied upon a novel methodology that assumed some bizarre,

previously unheard of, association between children's autism and their

manifestation of intestinal problems. "

As the proud grandfather of a lovable, 10-year-old, nonverbal boy

who was diagnosed with autism, I can assure Whelan that connecting my

grandson's autism and his intestinal problems was no " bizarre

assumption. "

The widespread rumors of a vaccine-autism link will prevail

because, after decades of opportunity to do so, the scientific community

cannot explain why one in every 110 children is being diagnosed with

autism, and why thousands of them will require treatment for

gastrointestinal problems.

Bob Moffitt

Sloatsburg