Autism doesn't suggest a neurological component?
Firstly, lumbar puncture has no role in the diagnosis of autism.
Secondly, even if it did (which it doesn't), he shouldn't have been doing them. Refer to my previous link above: "The study reported in The Lancet was completed under the cover of ethics approval for an entirely different study of 25 children", and that "ethics approval for the investigations conducted on the children reported in the study, some of them highly invasive (eg, lumbar puncture), had not been given."
Furthermore, since obviously not all MMR victims end up with damaged neurology there is something unusual about the mitochondrial physiology of those minority who do. It makes all the sense in the world to study this in detail.
There is no evidence that an MMR recipient has ever ended up with "damaged neurology" as a result of the vaccine. There is no evidence that vaccines cause or worsen mitochondrial disease or indeed affect mitochondrial physiology in any way. Even if they did (which they don't), the prime target would be mitochondria present in white blood cells, and so a simple blood test would be better than lumbar puncture.
Except that 12 people showed up with exactly the same story. Kid gets an MMR vaccine, kid screams all night in an unusual and alarming way, kid has clear signs of gastrointestinal ailment which never goes away, a kid who was normal regresses into autism, loses speech, etc.
This story is exactly the same as many many parents around the 'western' world describe, and down to the minute detail. That's why the 'affluent' are suspicious.
It is now known that some children have a physiology which makes them unable to tollerate the strain of the increasing rate of vaccine injection due to mitocondrial differences in the nervious systems. I say 'known' because the so-called 'vaccine court' has in rare cases (e.g., the parents were educated and wealthy) there have been pay-outs (of my tax dollars) to the families of the victims.
I could not help but notice that you edited this inconvenient fact out when deciding what to respond to.
Anyway, back in the day when Wakefield was faced with trying to solve a medical mystery (which very few people had the balls to touch) he was obviously sharp enough to hypothesise about something which was later proven to be a relevant aspect to the mystery. That's the mark of a real scientist.
Except Wakefield had no financial gain. But don't let that little logical problem get you to twisted.
Except the £55,000 he was being paid, which I provided proof of above.
So to summarize for the third time since you seem keen to ignore the facts - he performed risky and highly invasive tests with absolutely zero medical indication and without approval, all for his own financial gain.
As noted in Wakefield's defence to the rather obvious charade, he was not 'paid 55k' for this work.
Also as noted, it was is partner Walker-Smith under who's supervision the testing took place, and he had clear ethical clearance to do the work.
It's interesting to note that Walker-Smith was relatively wealthy and had the 500k necessary to defend himself. Upon doing so, the higher court not only reversed the decision and admonished the lower court for their malfeasence. Wakefield didn't have half-a-million kicking around.
Clearly what Wakefield had was a group of desperate parents begging for his help since he was researcher of some renoun in the field
Since he was a charlatan willing to makes impossible promises in return for their money. FTFY.
My dad had a spinal tap in order to rule out a bacterial infection.
In what way is this even the least bit relevant?
Gathering samples from within the blood-brain barrier is a standard way of understanding what has passed through said barrier and the physiology within. 'Doctor' (chuckle).
Or you might end up being the one person out of a billion who actually became paralyzed from wild-strain polio in that country over the last decade.
The reason the incidence of paralysis from polio infection is so low is because vaccination has cut the rate of new polio infections from half a million a year to 22. You argument is proof that vaccination works.
Actually it means that at this point you can paralyze 50,000 people to save 1 person from getting paralyzed. Why don't 'we' stop the suffering and see if the problem returns? Oh, that's right. The world's richest man, who seems to be also an enthusiest of eugenics, doesn't want to.
The mortality rates from all of your dreaded diseases was never anything like the calamity that you idiots are so fearful of.
Pertussis alone was killing 7,500 children a year in the US at its peak.
Pertussis is NOT the one you want to use as a poster-child for your propaganda, and I've described why earlier in this thread.
Busy with another task now, and the re is to long anyway. Maybe I'll follow up on the rest later if I feel a responsibility to help do my part for humanity.
