From Tedd Koren, DC
I just wrote to Dr. Classen re the NEJM study and his reply is below.
Reporters should be helpd accountable to the public for their unbalalnced
reporting. When it comes to medical stories they are akin to perky
cheerleaders.
Here is Dr. Classen's response below:
"A study appears in todays New England Journal which the authors claim
refutes our findings. I have included a copy as well as the editorial. The
study was written by employees affiliated with a vaccine manufacture in
Denmark. The study borders on fraud because the data supports our findings
but the authors fail to show all the results. The authors perform a cohort
study which shows that diabetes is consistently elevated in vacccinated
groups. The authors however only show "adjusted results" where all the
extra risk has been adjusted off. The authors are quoted in a newspaper as
stating diabetes was not elevated in the vaccinated group. This is a false
statement. If one simply looks at the raw data one can see the rates of
diabetes are higher in the vaccinated group. I have done sample
calculations for the hemophilus vaccine and included it in a table for you.
The results are near identical to what we found in our clinical trial. The
results are statistically significant for the 4 dose group. The results are
even more significant for other vaccines. The authors used controversial
techniques to decrease the risk of diabetes in their "adjusted" rate. The
authors adjusted the data for "calender period" which is
controversial.I will be writing a formal rebuttal for the NEJM over the
weekend."
Bart Classen, MD