Nice hit piece on Deer, by someone with reason to discredit him. The piece seemed to concentrate on who paid him for writing about the issue, and accused him of frightening the 12 families.
I see this as a typical misdirection ploy, when you cannot argue the message, you attack the messenger.
Do you have any followup studies on the connection between autism and vaccination that support the initial theory? I love to see scientific, peer reviewed studies that confirm the original theory. TX
I have actually had contact with Mr. Deer via email. I told him if he wished to prove he was not in bed with Big Pharma, he should investigate statin cholesterol drugs and expose those companies, who are greatly deceiving the public.
High Cholesterol treatment is a scam worth billions. It is also the cause of a myriad of additional health problems (resulting in further costs, both monetary and physical). The Jupiter Study, frequently quoted as proof of the efficicacy of statins, was funded by Astra Zeneca, the company who makes Crestor. Many of the paid researchers had connections to related products as you can see in this article...
http://ethicalnag.org/2010/07/19/jupiter-results-questioned/
Here was Mr Deer's response to my email ....
“Thanks for your email. I always wanted to look at this subject: if only because Lipitor was (maybe is) the top-selling drug. But I could never find a way in. The surface of the whole thing seemed so smooth. I will look out for that book. The other difficulty would be coming up with something genuinely new, and if someone has written a book on it, there may be no way to break anything open that isn't already in print.
But your reminder is a good one. Thanks.
Brian”
Sooo, it appears that a drug that is prescribed to upwards of 30 million people, costing taxpayers and patients billions of dollars, one that is only beneficial for a small fraction of people ...this does not seem to interest him as much as the autism-vaccine issue.....even though Dr. Wakefield's research merely concluded that FURTHER RESEARCH WAS WARRANTED to rule out the autism- vaccination connection issue.
Strange don't you think?