The British Medical Journal has published a report by journalist Brian Deer and accused Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who in 1998 published a study suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, of fraud.
Over the last 12 years there has been considerable media misrepresentation of Andrew Wakefields study. The paper was a five page case study, not a double-blind test drawing conclusive results. It studied 12 children and made no claims, it merely posited hypotheses. The paper concludes...
We have identified a chronic enterocolitis in children that may be related to neuropsychiatric dysfunction. In most cases, onset of symptoms was after measles, mumps, and rubella immunisation. Further investigations are needed to examine this syndrome and its possible relation to this vaccine.These sorts of studies are done all the time in science and are generally ignored because they don't prove anything. They merely function as springboards for further scientific research.
Wakefield's paper however generated enormous controversy that last year resulted in him losing his license and the paper being retracted. The GMC panel that found him guilty of "callous disregard" focused on alleged conflicts of interest and unethical treatment of test subjects, it had nothing to do with the quality of his scientific research.
But it seems accusing him of misconduct wasn't enough, now they have gone further and accused him of outright fraud. The so-called 'skeptics' have not surprisingly eaten this up...
PZ Myers
Orac
Skepacabra
VaccinesandEvolution
GodlessGeek
Steven Novella (Thermite & Desiree Jennings Dystonia Denialist)
Skepchick
"Children died because of the hysteria fomented by the contemptible Wakefield. How does that guy live with himself? Here's how: he's in denial." - says the contemptible PZ Myers, the darwinist/atheist featured in the movie Expelled who compared religion to knitting and admitted the NWO agenda to destroy it, and recently had this to say about abortion: "What's at stake is a mere embryo, so it's no big loss if it's flushed and incinerated ... there's no person" - Nice man! I don't consider myself anti-abortion, but I found Myers' quote about Wakefield kind of ironic.
The smear campaign against Wakefield has been a Big Pharma conspiracy from the start.
The Lancet, the journal the paper was published in, is owned by global publishing giant Reed-Elsevier. Reed-Elsevier own 2,460 scientific journals, aswell as the magazine New Scientist.
I'll say that again, 2,460 scientific journals! - It's no wonder scientists who dissent from any 'consensus' are so easily shut out of the 'credible' peer-reviewed literature when a significant amount of that literature is owned by a single publishing conglomerate. They're like the science and medicine equivalent of News Corp!
It gets worse. Reed-Elsevier's CEO, Sir Crispin Davis, is a non-executive director of GlaxoSmithKline! And his brother, Sir Nigel Davis, was a judge who withdrew legal aid from families who claimed their children were damaged by GlaxoSmithKline's MMR vaccine.
Worse still, in 2009 the pharmaceutical giant Merck was sued for paying Elsevier to create a fake journal to promote their products.
Reed-Elsevier's former chairman, Jan Hommen, attended Bilderberg in 2007 and 2010.
Interestingly, Reed-Elsevier was also the company Peter Power of visor consultants was running mock terror drills for on the morning of 7/7.
Brian Deer, the journalist making all these allegations about Dr. Wakefield, has been supported in his efforts by Channel 4, Murdoch's Sunday Times and MedicoLegal Investigations, a private company owned by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry!
The network of corruption is so in your face it's a wonder anyone can buy into this blatant smear campaign.
"We have a turd in the punchbowl!"
Wakefield isn't even anti-vaccine, and neither is celebrity 'anti-vaxxer' Jenny McCarthy, whose son contracted autism from a shot and has completely recovered thanks to alternative medicine.
In a CNN interview two years ago, she said: "We're not telling people not to vaccinate. I don't understand why it's so freakin' hard to comprehend we deserve safe shots!"
Dr. Wakefield appeared on CNN yesterday to defend himself...
Families have been awarded compensation for vaccine-autism cases, yet they still deny any connection...
Family win 18 year fight over MMR damage to son: £90,000
payout is first since concerns over vaccine surfaced
Family to Receive $1.5M+ in First-Ever Vaccine-Autism Court Award
Oh that's right, they don't cause autism, they "result in" autism!
The funny thing is, let's assume the allegations against Dr. Wakefield are true. What they have shown is how easy it is to get bad science published! It's like, congratulations, you've proven Wakefield's a fraud. You've proven financially motivated doctors can get their crackpot quackery published in an established journal. Now imagine what a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical giant can do! How about sending some of that skepticism the other way?!
'Don't investigate the finanical incentives of drug companies, investigate the financial incentives of small fries like Dr. Wakefield!', 'Don't investigate the intellectual honesty of the pharmaceutical industry, investigate the intellectual honesty of small fries like Dr. Wakefield!' - It's completely backwards!
'Don't believe the anti-establishment conspiracy theories, believe the pro-establishment conspiracy theories!' - That should be the new slogan of the Skeptics Society!
I'm sick and fed up with these corruption denialists and their cult-like obsession with defending the bullies and attacking the victims. It's so pathetic.
Last year, Bill Gates said in a TED talk that vaccines would play a role in depopulation. A number of people have tried to rationalize what he said, but I still don't follow the logic.
In his 1952 book The Impact of Science on Society, iconic liberal philosopher Bertrand Russell envisioned a world where the government controls its people using 'injections':
"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so."
- Bertrand Russell, "The Impact of Science on Society" (1952), Page 62.
The safety of childhood vaccinations against things like MMR and Hepititis is still very much debatable. However, one thing that isn't is the clear ineffectiveness of flu shots.
A 2010 Cochrane Library review of 50 reports - 40 of which were clinical trials of over 70,000 people - found that in the unlikely event of a flu shot matching the circulating strain of flu, 33 people would need to be vaccinated to avoid just one case of flu. In average conditions, 100 people would need to be vaccinated to avoid just one case of flu. The review found no evidence that flu shots in any way affect transmission of the virus - which is the main reason flu shots are promoted, to block transmission. At least 15 of the 40 trials were industry funded. So even the industry's own, probably biased studies make a poor scientific case for flu vaccinations.
An earlier review by the BMJ found that industry-sponsored flu vaccine studies were more attractive to prestigious peer-reviewed journals, regardless of their size or quality. The authors lamented, "In most cases, what you see is not necessarily what you get".
What's especially frustrating is how the establishment defenders always put the burden of proof on us. We're supposed to just assume that tainted vaccines and drinking water is fine until proven otherwise. In my opinion, the burden of proof should always be on the side challenging common sense. If I went up to someone with a glass of water spiked with cyanide, told them it was spiked with cyanide and offered them it to drink, would they? No, coz common sense would tell them that water spiked with cyanide isn't gonna be good for them and they'd want some kind of guarantee that it isn't going to kill them before they even consider it. It's called rational thought! They wouldn't say, 'Sure, I'll drink it, there's no proof that this specific drink is going to do me any harm!'
But with things like Mercury, Aspartame and Fluoride the logic is reversed. I don't need a peer-reviewed study to tell me food, water and medicine tainted with toxins is bad for me. Common sense does just fine. What I want to see is a thorough, peer-reviewed, non-industry funded study that proves these things aren't bad for me!
More:
Elsevier Terrorists scared shitless that everyone knows VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM
Statement From Dr. Andrew Wakefield: No Fraud. No Hoax. No Profit Motive
A Roundup of Responses to the British Medical Journal
AGE OF AUTISM reponses
Jenny McCarthy: In the Vaccine-Autism Debate, What Can Parents Believe?
Autism One: A Conversation of Hope, January 11, 2011
YouTube: GoldenHawkprojects
Dr Andrew Wakefield on The Alex Jones Show, May 25, 2010 Part 1, 2, 3 & 4
Sunday Times’ Discredited – Wakefield’s Autism Research Verified
Wakefield’s Lancet Paper Vindicated – [Yet Again]
Peer Reviewed Papers Support Findings
Autism and the Gastrointestinal System Research
Callous Disregard - Research
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