PATRICK MCCRYSTAL BSc,
Madam, - One wonders what vested interests lie behind the research that "finds no ill-effects from triple MMR injections" ( February 20th). The pharmaceutical industry is long known to bend research findings to its benefit. For example, we are regularly treated to headlines that the contraceptive pill is now "safer" than first thought, when crucial data that points to the contrary is skewed, played down or ignored.
Then women are assured in glowing terms that for example the pill reduces the incidence of ovarian cancer, deftly ignoring the link to breast and cervical cancer or thrombosis.
So too we are now told that MMR jabs reduce the risk of pneumonia. Try telling that to the parents of children who succumbed to autism soon after immunisation. Strange also the children studied in the research cited were those admitted to hospital only within three months after the immunisation, and that this research is eight years old. - Yours, etc.
PATRICK MCCRYSTAL BSc, Pharmacy Executive Director, Human Life International, Belvedere Place, Dublin 1