Wakefield's Lancet Paper Vindicated - [Yet Again]

Wakefield's Lancet Paper Vindicated - [Yet Again]

http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.c...%A0vindicated/

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 new study was conducted by the Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network
and covered data from 15 treatment and research centers in the United States
and Canada. Of 1185 children aged 2 to18 years with an autistic condition
45% were reported to have GI symptoms. Abdominal pain was most common (59%)
followed by constipation (51%), diarrhea (43%), other (40%), nausea (31%)
and bloating (26%). Reports of GI symptoms increased with age. Sleep
problems occurred in 70% of children with than those without GI symptoms
(30%). The problems affected all children regardless of gender, ethnic
background or intelligence.

This is not the first time Wakefield's research has been confirmed by
independent researchers around the world. Read a previous article and see
the list of papers replicating Wakefield's Lancet paper research: Sunday
Times' Discredited - Wakefield's Autism Research Verified

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 and illustrated how Sunday
Times journalist Brian Deer had misrepresented her evidence. Dr Susan E
Davies, Consultant Histopathologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
stated in the British Medical Journal regarding a BMJ article by Brian Deer
that "There is some misrepresentation .. and lack of understanding of the
process in studies involving histopathology." and that there were
significant findings "While a clinical gastroenterologist might consider
caecal active inflammation with incipient crypt abscess formation to be
normal in children (1), this is a significant finding to be recorded by
pathologists": "Caution in assessing histopathological opinions." BMJ Rapid
Responses 30 April 2010.

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