On Fri, 7 May 2010 18:25:07 +0100, "john" wrote:

Wakefield's Lancet Paper Vindicated - [Yet Again]

It has not yet been vindicated once, never mind "yet again". Nor is it
ever going to be because it was founded upon dishonesty.

New independent research presented at the 2010 Pediatric Academic Societies
Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada confirms unequivocally the findings of
Dr Andrew Wakefield's 1998 Lancet paper of an association between autism and
serious gastrointestinal disease in children.

The presence of GI symptoms in autistic children is not new and was
not discovered by .Wakefield.

What he falsely reported was the presence of measles virus in their
gut when there was none.

This is not the first time Wakefield's research has been confirmed

Well it would be if it did - but it didn't.

Additionally, one of the witnesses in the GMC proceedings against Dr
Wakefield writing to the British Medical Journal confirmed the validity of
the histopathology on which the paper was based

She did not, you should read before misquoting.

So will Dr Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet now "unretract" The Lancet
paper?

Why? The paper was based upon a dishonest representation of the
choice of participants. It was based upon a false report of measles
virus in the children when there was none. It neglected to point out
the link between Wakefield and the MMR litigants. It was dishonest.

It belongs where it is in the dustbin.