We are paying for the sin by scientists

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The larges scale epidemic of cancer, is it a curse arsing from our

cruelty to animals during medicine or cosmetic trials on them? And

failure of modern synthetic drugs can it be attributed to this

cruelty as per law of karma? Time has clearly come to live and et

live as far as animal world is concerned. Else soon man will become

worse than animals. Aside from the considerable ethical issues,

there's also the fact that results from animal tests rarely translate

across to humans.

 

Perhaps after suffering of their own children, the tide of

researchers clearly seems to have turned against pharma. A latest

study, by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has

also discovered that drugs are still used on humans even when the

animal tests uncover problems.

 

The study, headed by Prof Ian Roberts, discovered that animal testing

is a covert, and secretive, activity. Despite the enormous suffering

endured by the animals, the results are often ignored by drug

companies if they suggest a problem with the new drug.

 

Roberts and his team reviewed six medical treatments – head injuries,

blood clotting, stroke, disease in premature babies and osteoporosis –

and revisited the initial findings from the animal tests.

 

In assessing the use of steroids for patients with head injuries, the

initial animal trials had discovered mixed results. Nonetheless, the

therapy was approved for use in humans, and was found to increase the

risk of death and so was stopped.

 

Two other studies on stroke showed that the animal test results

didn't translate to humans. In both cases the drug improved the

animals' condition – and yet the same drug increased the risk of

death and disability in humans.

 

Andre Menache, scientific consultant to Animal Aid, the campaign

group, said: " Across a range of important human ailments, animal

research provides misleading and conflicting information and is

therefore dangerously unreliable. "

 

The study is published on Birmingham University's Department of

Public Health and Epidemiology website:

 

http://www.pcpoh.bham.ac.uk/publichealth/nccrm/publications.htm)

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The sin of course is to accept bribes from the

pharmaceutical industry!

 

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Ian Sample, science correspondent

Tuesday June 27, 2006

The Guardian

 

A group of Britain's leading paediatricians and

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children will die unless a line is drawn under the

autism and MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine

controversy.

 

In an open letter, 30 scientists, including some of

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that an overwhelming body of evidence shows the

vaccine is safe. They add that urgent immunisations

are necessary to prevent potentially devastating

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The warning comes as England faces its biggest measles

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The letter, whose signatories include Patricia

Hamilton, president of the Royal College of

Paediatrics and Child Health, and Professor Sir David

Hall, a paediatrician at Sheffield University, says:

" The time has come to draw a line under the question

of any association between the MMR vaccine and autism.

The UK's children are in danger of serious illness or

death if they are left unimmunised. "

 

This month, the Health Protection Agency reported 449

cases of measles so far this year - more in just six

months than the 438 reported cases in 2003. In 2005,

there were only 77 reported cases.

 

Confidence in the MMR vaccine slumped in 1998 when a

team led by Andrew Wakefield at the Royal Free

hospital, north London, published research in the

Lancet on bowel disease and autism. Dr Wakefield later

suggested that there might be a link between autism

and the MMR jab. He now faces professional misconduct

charges brought by the General Medical Council.

 

In the letter, the scientists raise concerns that many

children born during the height of the MMR scare are

now set to enter schooling without the immunisation.

" We are now faced with a potentially serious

situation. Years of low uptake mean large numbers of

unprotected children are now entering school. Unless

this is rectified urgently, and children are

immunised, there will be further outbreaks and more

unnecessary deaths, " it says.

 

Although immunisation rates are rising, they are still

below the 95% level the World Health Organisation says

is needed for " herd immunity " . A year ago MMR uptake

stood at 70.8% in London and 83% for the whole of the

UK. The letter adds: " It is not too late to avert this

predictable tragedy. It is time that due weight is

given to the overwhelming body of scientific evidence

in favour of the vaccine. Misguided concepts of

" balance " have confused and dangerously misled

patients. We all, media, politicians and health

professionals, have a responsibility to protect the

health of our children. "

 

David Elliman, a consultant in community child health

at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and a signatory of

the letter, said that a vast body of research now

vindicated the MMR vaccine, but he added that some

media reports remained " partisan " in their coverage of

research into the vaccine.

 

" Parents should be wary of simplistic headlines and

information they read on the internet, " he added.

 

 

 

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