Christopher Shaw (neuroscientist)

Christopher Shaw
Education
Scientific career
Fields Neuroscience
Institutions University of British Columbia
Thesis Electrophysiological studies of after-potentials in invertebrate photoreceptors (1979)

Christopher Ariel Shaw is a Canadian neuroscientist and professor of ophthalmology at the University of British Columbia (UBC).[1][2] Shaw has studied Lytico-bodig disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, Gulf War syndrome, and the toxicity of aluminum. He is the author of more than 200 published research articles.[3]

Research funding

In 2002 the United States Department of Defense gave Shaw a research grant of $198,420. These moneys funded the study of the neurotoxicity of cycad seeds and the progression of Lytico-bodig disease (also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-parkinsonism dementia complex). In 2006 and 2007 Shaw received an additional $248,400 to study Lytico-bodig disease. These moneys were provided by the United States National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Shaw has received nearly $900,000 in research funding from the Dwoskin Family Foundation and the Katlyn Fox Foundation, both of which question the safety of vaccines. The University of British Columbia and numerous experts said there is no problem with the source of this funding, noting that many researchers accept money from pharmaceutical companies and other entities.[4]

Community activities

Shaw is chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Children's Medical Safety Research Institute.[5] Claire Dwoskin, the founder of the Institute, has used Shaw's studies, conducted at UBC, as evidence that vaccines cause autism.[6]

Shaw has appeared in two documentary films: "One More Girl" and "The Greater Good". In these films, Shaw spoke about the toxicity of aluminum.[7]

Controversies

Shaw has done controversial research on the adverse effects of vaccines, including publishing two 2011 reports about the effect of aluminum adjuvants in vaccines.[8][9] The World Health Organization's Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety criticized the two 2011 reports, calling them "seriously flawed".[10] The Committee wrote: "The core argument made in these studies is based on ecological comparisons of aluminium content in vaccines and rates of autism spectrum disorders in several countries. In general, ecological studies cannot be used to assert a causal association because they do not link exposure to outcome in individuals, and only make correlations of exposure and outcomes on population averages".[11]

In October 2017, Shaw and his colleague, Lucija Tomljenovic, announced that they were retracting a paper they had co-authored in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, claiming to find that aluminum in vaccines caused symptoms "consistent with those in autism" in mice, after multiple other researchers had criticized the underlying data as invalid or falsified. After seeing some of these criticisms on PubPeer, Shaw and his lab reanalyzed the figures that had been criticized, and requested a retraction from the journal, saying "It appears as if some of the images in mostly what were non-significant results had been flipped. We don't know why, we don't know how … but there was a screw-up, there's no question about that."[12] In response to this retraction, UBC issued a statement defending academic freedom as well as Shaw's academic integrity.[12] In January 2018, Shaw and Tomljenovic withdrew a third article, about a controversy over a tetanus vaccination program in Kenya, twice.[13]

Publications

Books

  • Christopher Shaw; Jill C. McEachern (2001). Toward a Theory of Neuroplasticity. Psychology Press. p. 468. ISBN 978-1841690216.
  • Shaw, Christopher (2008). Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games. New Society Publishers. ISBN 978-0865715929.
  • Shaw, Christopher (2017). Neural Dynamics of Neurological Disease. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1118634578.
  • Shaw, Christopher (2018). "Aluminum as a CNS and immune system toxin across the lifespan". In Neurotoxicity of Aluminum. Qiao Niu (Editor). Springer Publishing.

Research articles

  • Petrik, M; Wong, MC; Tabata, RC; Garry, RF; Shaw, CA (February 2007). "Aluminum adjuvant linked to gulf war illness induces motor neuron death in mice". Neuromolecular Medicine. 9 (1): 83–100. doi:10.1385/NMM:9:1:83. PMID 17114826.
  • Grace Lee, Tony Chu, and Christopher Shaw (2009). "The primary locus of motor neuron death in an ALS–PDC mouse model". NeuroReport, 20 (14): 1284–9.
  • Shaw, CA; Petrik, MS (2009). "Aluminum hydroxide injections lead to motor deficits and motor neuron degeneration". Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 103 (11): 1555–62.
  • Crépeaux, Guillemette; Eidi, Housam; David, Marie-Odilem; Baba-Amer, Yasmine; Tzavara, Eleni; Giros, Bruno; Authier, François-Jérôme; Exley, Christopher; Shaw, Christopher A.; Cadusseau, Josette; Gherardi, Romain K. (2017). "Non-linear dose-response of aluminium hydroxide adjuvant particles: Selective low dose neurotoxicity". Toxicology. 375: 48–57.
  • Inbar, R; Weiss, R; Tomljenovic, L; Arango, MT; Deri, Y; Shaw, CA; Chapman, J; Blank, M; Shoenfeld, Y (2017). "Behavioral abnormalities in female mice following administration of aluminum adjuvants and the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil". Immunologic Research. 65 (1): 136–149.
  • Sneha K.S. Sheth, Yongling Li, Christopher A. Shaw (2018). "Is exposure to aluminium adjuvants associated with social impairments in mice? A pilot study". Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 181: 96–103.

Review articles

References

  1. ↑ Judge, Michael (2000-01-12). "The worst thing since white bread". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  2. ↑ "Christopher Shaw". www.neuraldynamicsubc.ca. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  3. ↑ Mair, Rafe (2009-10-18). "Chris Shaw Was Right!" The Tyee. Retrieved 2018-6-19.
  4. ↑ Weeks, Carly (2015-03-04). "UBC stands behind vaccine studies discredited by WHO". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  5. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board. Children's Medical Safety Research Institute. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  6. ↑ Dwoskin, Claire (2018). "Study Shows Where 'Almost' 100 Percent of Aluminum From Vaccines Could Go Inside A Baby's Body". Collective Evolution. Retrieved 2018-6-20.
  7. ↑ Brown, Kalee (2017-2-10). "New Study Links Aluminum Adjuvant Via HPV Vaccine to Neuroinflammation & Autoimmune Reaction". Collective Evolution. Retrieved 2018-5-29.
  8. ↑ Tomljenovic L, Shaw CA (2011). "Do aluminum vaccine adjuvants contribute to the rising prevalence of autism?" Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 105: 1489–1499.
  9. ↑ Tomljenovic L, Shaw CA (2011). "Aluminum vaccine adjuvants: are they safe?" Current Medicinal Chemistry. 18(17): 2630–2637.
  10. ↑ Bambury, Brent (2015-02-13). "A UBC prof, his anti-vaccine backers and studies slammed by the WHO". CBC Radio. Retrieved 2017-08-20.
  11. ↑ Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (2012). "Aluminum Adjuvants". Weekly Epidemiological Record. World Health Organization. 87(30): 277–288.
  12. 1 2 "'There was a screw-up': UBC researchers pull paper linking vaccine component to autism". CBC News. 2017-10-16. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  13. ↑ Han, Andrew P. (2018-01-30). "For the second time, researchers retract — then republish — a vaccine paper". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
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