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:I didn't make the claim. You may not realize this, but wiki articles are made by many contributors. However, DWiggins' citation shows nothing but throwing blame on a public miseducated by the NHS. [[User:DouglasA|DouglasA]] 13:26, 5 November 2009 (EST)
:I didn't make the claim. You may not realize this, but wiki articles are made by many contributors. However, DWiggins' citation shows nothing but throwing blame on a public miseducated by the NHS. [[User:DouglasA|DouglasA]] 13:26, 5 November 2009 (EST)
::I understand how wikis are made. I think I've been here for almost a year and a half, if memory serves. I re-added the first part of DWiggins' edit. I believe this is a compromise that shows why measles are becoming more prominent in Britain, while not patting the NHS on the back. -- [[User:JLauttamus|Jeffrey W. Lauttamus]][[User_talk:JLauttamus|<sub>Discussion</sub>]] 13:49, 5 November 2009 (EST)
::I understand how wikis are made. I think I've been here for almost a year and a half, if memory serves. I re-added the first part of DWiggins' edit. I believe this is a compromise that shows why measles are becoming more prominent in Britain, while not patting the NHS on the back. -- [[User:JLauttamus|Jeffrey W. Lauttamus]][[User_talk:JLauttamus|<sub>Discussion</sub>]] 13:49, 5 November 2009 (EST)
:::DouglasA by rejecting my edit and reinstating the original you were making such a claim. And the miseducation is not caused BY the NHS. The NHS has consistently rejected the claims about a link between autism and MMR. Again, just because you disagree with the concept of the NHS does not mean everything they do is bad wrong. I do not think anyone who knows anything about the NHS could ever argue they have not consistently tried to increase MMR uptake. By all means add that original article about costs and medicines, but you cannot simply link that to this MMR issue when there is nothing in that article to support this leap between two separate issues, and when in fact the evidence contradicts it in the case of MMR. By all means take out the bit about the promotion of the vaccine by the NHS, I put it in to counter the original false claims that the decrease in uptake was entirely the fault of the NHS.
In regards to the above section, you seem to misunderstand the meaning of 'consensus'. Consensus is rarely unanimous, especially in fields so large as medicine. Consensus is the vast majority accepting something, and that is the case with the MMR vaccine and the supposed links to autism, which have been thoroughly rejected. Of course there will always be some who disagree, and unfortunately in a few cases, as with Dr. Wakefield, this disagreement is not all that it seems on the surface.
Let's be clear about this. All the reviews of the scientific literature come out with the same conclusion. There is NO evidence to support a casual link between either thiomersal and autism, nor the MMR vaccine and autism. [[User:DWiggins|DWiggins]] 15:03, 5 November 2009 (EST)