Centennial Pediatrics will be closed for the holidays on Saturday December 24, Monday December 26, and Monday January 2nd. Nurse triage will continue to be available should you have any concerns.
Dr. Weiser recently married Brandon Crow and has changed her name to Dr. Susan Weiser Crow.
We continue to accept new patients. Contact our office to find a provider. Please fax your immunization record to us prior to your initial visit.
The evidence against a link between vaccines and autism continues to mount. The already retracted study that originally claimed to link autism to childhood vaccines has been shown to be an "elaborate fraud." Hopefully anxious parents will take note. Read more at refuted autism study
How the fraudulent report was fixed:
The 1998 Lancet paper was a case series of 12 child patients; it reported a proposed “new syndrome” of enterocolitis and regressive autism and associated this with MMR as an “apparent precipitating event.”
But in fact:
Three of nine children reported with regressive autism did not have autism diagnosed at all. Only one child clearly had regressive autism
Despite the paper claiming that all 12 children were “previously normal,” five had documented pre-existing developmental concerns
Some children were reported to have experienced first behavioural symptoms within days of MMR, but the records documented these as starting some months after vaccination
In nine cases, unremarkable colonic histopathology results—noting no or minimal fluctuations in inflammatory cell populations—were changed after a medical school “research review” to “non-specific colitis”
The parents of eight children were reported as blaming MMR, but 11 families made this allegation at the hospital. The exclusion of three allegations—all giving times to onset of problems in months—helped to create the appearance of a 14 day temporal link
Patients were recruited through anti-MMR campaigners, and the study was commissioned and funded for planned litigation.
Read more about the evidence against a vaccine-autism link in our Patient Education section.
