The Science of Life

These are the sources for my video " The Science of the News: Vaccines and Autism ". 1998 Paper Connecting Vaccines and Autism: " Ileal-Lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children "; Wakefield, A.J. et. al.; 28FEB1998; The Lancet; Vol 351; p. 637-641; doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)11096-0 1998 BBC Report: "Child vaccine linked to autism" The Independent report " Doctors link autism to MMR vaccination " Denmark MMR-Autism Link Study: " A Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism "; Madsen, K.M. Hviid, A. Vestergaard, M. Schendel, D. Wohlfahrt, J. Thorsen, P. Olsen, J. Melbye, M.; New England Journal of Medicine; vol. 348; 11/07/2002; 1477-1482 Scientific Reports in Direct Response to the 1998 Paper: " Association of Autistic Spectrum Disorder and the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccine "; Kumanan Wilson, MD, MSc, FRCP(C);...

Let me begin this blog as a whole with an awful truth about the scientist in general and the chemist in particular. This is a flaw that I disdain, but have to admit is present if I am going to stay honest to myself and to you, my readers. This flaw is that of not going full out on meticulous detail when publishing findings to a scientific journal. Now this may mean not going in full detail in a lab notebook causing the experiment to be irreproducible, or this may mean presenting visuals that represent “impossible science”, or this may mean getting to a certain conclusion through shady means, among other things. All of these things happen in all fields of science, and especially in chemistry. And when these flaws are apparent, the scientists involved in not going full out on detail on a report get called out by the scientific community, in the same way when a murder is committed, the murderer is called out by the community (s)he murdered in. And like murderers, those scientists w...