Re: The Danish Study

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:29:06 -0500, Mark Probert wrote:

> mike wrote:
>> On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:06:14 -0500, Mark Probert wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Some folks like to claim that the Danish study is not valid because of
>>>some "loading", or whatever, by changing the cohort.
>>>
>>>Here is the study:
>>>
>>>http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/112/3/604
>>>
>>>Patients. All children between 2 and 10 years old who were diagnosed
>>>with autism during the period from 1971-2000.
>>>
>>>Now, what part of ALL CHILDREN is hard for them to understand?
>>>
>>
>>
>> What part? Easy. The quote was from the abstract, and here is one from the
>> full article:
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> Also, outpatient activities were included in the Danish Psychiatric
>> Central Research Register in 1995 and because many patients with autism in
>> former years have been treated as outpatients this may exaggerate the
>> incidence rates, simply because a number of patients attending the child
>> psychiatric treatment system before 1995 were recorded for the first time,
>> and thereby counted as new cases in the incidence rates.
>> -----------------end of quote --------------------
>>
>> Plainly speaking, before discontinuation of thimerosal outpatients were
>> not counted (so much for ALL CHILDREN). But they were counted after
>> discontinuation (now it is really ALL CHILDREN. Many more, of course.
>> Including the ones that were not counted before but had autism all along).
>> And so:
>>
>>
>>>Here is the conclusion:
>>>
>>>Conclusions. The discontinuation of thimerosal-containing vaccines in
>>>Denmark in 1992 was followed by an increase in the incidence of autism.
>>>Our ecological data do not support a correlation between
>>>thimerosal-containing vaccines and the incidence of autism.
>>
>>
>> Nice, isn't it?
>>
>> More can be found at
>> http://www.safeminds.org/research/docs/Blaxill-DenmarkAutismThimerosalPediatrics.pdf
>
> They will do anything to avoid reality.

It is not response to their criticism of the study and to the quotes from
the study, is it accepted?

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