Vaccines and Autism-article that debunks the autism myth

CNN: Another study finds no link between MMR vaccine and autism

A large group of kids who were at a higher risk of being diagnosed with autism were followed up for several years after getting their MMR shots.

As expected, there was NO increased risk of developing autism.
The study is led by Dr Anjali Jain of the Lewin Group.

What makes this study interesting is not the data that unequivocally supports vaccination in kids but the fact that the study is conducted by physicians who are employees of the Lewin Group.

Now Lewin Group, if one starts digging up their past, has a little history of its own. In an article that appeared in the Washington Post in 2009, they have to their credit a shady past involving data skewing.

Research Firm Cited by GOP Is Owned by Health Insurer

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/22/AR2009072202216.html)

More specifically, the Lewin Group is part of Ingenix, a UnitedHealth subsidiary that was accused by the New York attorney general and the American Medical Association, a physician's group, of helping insurers shift medical expenses to consumers by distributing skewed data. Ingenix supplied its parent company and other insurers with data that allegedly understated the "usual and customary" doctor fees that insurers use to determine how much they will reimburse consumers for out-of-network care.

In January, UnitedHealth agreed to a $50 million settlement with the New York attorney general and a $350 million settlement with the AMA, covering conduct going back as far as 1994.




The question is, why cant we have physician scientists who are not linked to any particular industry to perform studies that impact human health? Surely, there are physicians out there!