Posted on 04/22/2008 7:09:21 AM PDT by ZGuy
In light of what Kathleen [Seidel] and other scientists are going through, and the fact that there continues to be no scientific support for the ongoing scares being directed at innocent young parents over mercury exposures and vaccinations for their children, it is egregious that this article published in the British Medical Journal last week has not even been reported.
As Owen Dyer wrote in the Journal on April 19th:
Wakefield admits fabricating events
The doctor whose study triggered a collapse in public confidence in the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine told a disciplinary panel last week that he made up details of his sons birthday partyat which he took blood samples from several childrenwhen giving a speech in California.
Andrew Wakefield was one of the authors of the 1998 Lancet paper on inflammatory bowel disease and autism. He is now facing a General Medical Council fitness to practise panel, accused of serious professional misconduct, alongside two other authors of the study, Simon Murch and John Walker-Smith.
Dr. Wakefields comments at a press conference announcing the paper, where he linked the MMR vaccine to a risk of autism, led to a public health scare that saw uptake of the vaccine dip below 80%. The Lancet later repudiated the paper, after it emerged that Dr Wakefield had extensive financial ties to lawyers and families who were pursuing the manufacturers of the vaccine in the courts and that most of his research participants were litigants...
The case continues.
I thought there was nothing higher than doctors or lower than lawyers...
but now a new breed emerges- a doctor colluding with a lawyer to screw the public
I went to my doctor and he told me I had six months to live, I said “Damn Doc, six months? I think I’d like a second opinion!” and he said “ok, you’re ugly too”.
[cymbal CRASH!] lol
bump for later - thanks
Every time I bring up the issue of vaccines being linked to autism to an MD or hear it brought up in the media the idea is immediately dismissed. It’s like they’ve been zombie zapped by the AMA to tow the line on these vaccines.
The lack of evidence linking vaccines to autism has nothing to do with the AMA and everything to do with reputable study after study showing no connection. Of course that’s not what the followers of anti-vaccine/conspiracy websites want to hear.
How much harm has people like Wakefield done? That will never be known but the prevention of harm from disease by vaccines is well known and should be praised.
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