Joanna wrote in the article (not later comments)
"He found measles virus in the guts of 75 of the children with bowel disease and only in five of the healthy children".
No. Wakefield's team didn't find measles virus. The techniques Wakefield's team used was fatally flawed in two dimensions: in PCR analysis, they used a primer that wasn't specific for measles, AND they had contamination in the lab.
See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1954854/?tool=pubmed and http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/4/1664.full.pdf+html
Joanna went on to write "It was already widely known that wild measles virus can cause colitis so theoretically a live virus vaccine like MMR could do the same. (3 and 4)"
Citation 3 is a news report about Wakefield's 2002 study Citation 4 is a link to Wakefield's 2002 study. The study was analyzed and found methodologically fatally flawed in the two papers above. So no, it wasn't "widely known", except in Wakefield's heated imagination.
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Joanna wrote in the article (not later comments)
"He found measles virus in the guts of 75 of the children with bowel disease and only in five of the healthy children".
No. Wakefield's team didn't find measles virus. The techniques Wakefield's team used was fatally flawed in two dimensions: in PCR analysis, they used a primer that wasn't specific for measles, AND they had contamination in the lab.
See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1954854/?tool=pubmed and http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/4/1664.full.pdf+html
Joanna went on to write "It was already widely known that wild measles virus can cause colitis so theoretically a live virus vaccine like MMR could do the same. (3 and 4)"
Citation 3 is a news report about Wakefield's 2002 study Citation 4 is a link to Wakefield's 2002 study. The study was analyzed and found methodologically fatally flawed in the two papers above. So no, it wasn't "widely known", except in Wakefield's heated imagination.
September 10, 2011 - 4:58pmThis Comment
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