with spying. local media outlet s said she entered from armenia without a visa and hid spy equipment on her teeth. elizabeth edwards has left everything to her children. her will makes no mention of her husband. months after withdrawing from the race he admitting infidelity. for years, doctors, researchers and parents have been searching for a cause of autism. one physician, dr. andrew wakefield, and his supporters told fast to the link to vaccinations. wakefield shot back at his accusers. according to this new report, not only did you do a study that was scientifically and ethically flawed but it was an elaborate
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started the discussion about vaccines and autism, there s been a lot of other movements since then among people who really believe in this connection. i asked him specifically about his research yesterday. take a listen to that. since 1998, you have obviously been dealing with this. but these charges, that are a big deal in the world of science that you paid patients, that you did not randomize them, meaning, you selected patients you thought would be better for your study, and now, the most damning evidence of all, that perhaps these numbers, the dates were all fabricated to sort of make a case. did you have some sort of preconceived notion of a link between the vaccine mmr and autism before you conducted this study? absolutely not. dr. gupta, i urge you, read my book. i ll send you a copy. take the book and read it. understand the truth. you will understand it. many people don t. the parents understand it. they get it because they ve lived it.
it wasn t a mistake. the accusation is that he actually committed fraud and was trying to pull one over on people. did you believe there was ever did you ever think that there was a link? for a long time we haven t known and we still don t know what the cause is. there is probably a lot of different causes for autism. what we are trying to find out is what are some of those causes so you have to look at the science over time. if the science led to immuizations, then we would have followed down the path. it s not that it s necessarily out. it s that this study that this doctor did. this was never the gold standard for doctors. doctors knew from the very beginning, respectable experts it took on its own life. a friend of mine said this morning it made us already psycho parents more psycho.
not true. they had symptoms or not until months later and things like that he drilled down. i remember talking to you about this year. wakefield s report retracted by the british medical journal last year. what s different now? what happened last year is it was basically retracted because they said this is shoddy science. you didn t pak the participants well. some of them bade. not randomized. supposed to pick people at random and picked particular children for the study he thought might fit the purposes of the study. that was essentially why the lance retracted it. this is a step further. not just shoddy science but saying intentional misrepresentation and falsification of data, very serious charge in science. the link between autism and vaccines, is it dead now? well, i think that, you know, wakefield s papers discredited for sometime and retracted last year. i think a lot of people will say, look, while this may have