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Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie
Maybe now the parents of my peds patients will stop this nonsense and start vaccinating their kids again! I had a kid in clinic last year with rubella! (The mom was afraid of autism, so she refused MMRs.)
The original article linking vaccines and autism in the Lancet has been rescinded by all but one of the authors; all admit that their methods were faulty. The current theory is that since children receive vaccines around the age that autism tends to develop, and they also see their pediatrician then, they are more likely to be diagnosed at that time.
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My SIL is about to hemmed up because of her illogical conclusion...
The fact is the "research" and the publication in the Lancet was very poorly vetted. The power of the number of patients was not even to say any statistical analysis--not even a Student's t-test!!! What? 12 children? Out of how many get vaccinated for the year? With what follow up? And let's not even get into human subjects division of IRB's to say there is a test!!! And even if it was some "outbreak" of some sort, it the interrogation of the data do not even fall under the simple differentials of autism...
Turns out there was ONLY ONE patient who had mental health issues overall, unrelated to autism!!! The other children, had zero symptoms of autism... Post hoc!!!
Gross scientific misconduct is what happened here...
Hence why I am out of this field these days... Just crazy...
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