Please do not post links to sites like these, they only serve to confuse the naive and aggravate the sensible majority. The vaccine hoax was exposed years ago.
From the BMJ, BMJ 2010;340:c2803 24 May 2010: "Dr Wakefield was found guilty of dishonesty and irresponsibility by the GMC, the UK’s regulatory body. The fitness to practise panel held that Dr Wakefield abused his position, subjected children to intrusive procedures such as lumbar puncture and colonoscopy that were not clinically indicated, carried out research that flouted the conditions of ethics committee approval, and brought the medical profession into disrepute (BMJ 29 January 2010, ;340:c593, doi:10.1136/bmj.c593).
After the GMC’s verdict the Lancet retracted the 12 year old paper that sparked the crisis in confidence in the safety of the vaccine (BMJ 2 February 2010;340:c696, doi:10.1136/bmj.c696).
The paper, published when Dr Wakefield was a consultant gastroenterologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London, caused the biggest public health scare in UK history. Although the paper did not claim it had found a definite link between the vaccine and autism, Dr Wakefield suggested at a press conference that single vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella might be preferable to the triple vaccine."
The biggest public health scare in UK history ... or at least, it was before Covid brought out a new batch of crazies. Please do not perpetuate it. Snake oil salespeople will continue to schmooze desperate parents into buying expensive and useless "cures" for their kids' autism. Please do not encourage them!
Please do not post links to sites like these, they only serve to confuse the naive and aggravate the sensible majority. The vaccine hoax was exposed years ago.
From the BMJ, BMJ 2010;340:c2803 24 May 2010: "Dr Wakefield was found guilty of dishonesty and irresponsibility by the GMC, the UK’s regulatory body. The fitness to practise panel held that Dr Wakefield abused his position, subjected children to intrusive procedures such as lumbar puncture and colonoscopy that were not clinically indicated, carried out research that flouted the conditions of ethics committee approval, and brought the medical profession into disrepute (BMJ 29 January 2010, ;340:c593, doi:10.1136/bmj.c593).
After the GMC’s verdict the Lancet retracted the 12 year old paper that sparked the crisis in confidence in the safety of the vaccine (BMJ 2 February 2010;340:c696, doi:10.1136/bmj.c696).
The paper, published when Dr Wakefield was a consultant gastroenterologist at the Royal Free Hospital in London, caused the biggest public health scare in UK history. Although the paper did not claim it had found a definite link between the vaccine and autism, Dr Wakefield suggested at a press conference that single vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella might be preferable to the triple vaccine."
The biggest public health scare in UK history ... or at least, it was before Covid brought out a new batch of crazies. Please do not perpetuate it. Snake oil salespeople will continue to schmooze desperate parents into buying expensive and useless "cures" for their kids' autism. Please do not encourage them!
Please do not post links to sites like these, they only serve to confuse the naive and aggravate the sensible majority. The vaccine hoax was exposed years ago.
Exactly so.
I feel strongly about this particular nonsense for reasons that I won't go into right now, but suffice to say, I have yet to see an anti-vaxx view of any sort that is well informed about vaccines and their development.
The other point to make about this particular site is that it presents autism as a malady to be 'cured' - a view underpinned by the premise that people with autism are defective.
How many times do we have to go there before we'll learn to embrace people as they are, instead of endlessly targeting people who don't slot into a narrow frame of 'normal'?
Everything that you have written needed to be written here and I warmly commend you for a job very well done, indeed. I congratulate you on a very fair, balanced, appropriate and necessary statement.
The OP has swung open a door, and the matters prompted by such a presentation are amorphous.
I speak here as neither one of the naive, nor one of the sensible majority, I am Number.
Conflation, emotion, simplification, politicisation "of the whole" are rife when even the slightest "flavours" are "spotted" within public discourse these days. I think the OP dosed this presentation with hot chilli sauce.
I personally don't think it is possible to discuss an ever growing list of topic areas in open forum. I have made my list available to the OP in the past for consideration.
I also note, however, that some souls are not immediately drawn-to-arms, ignore the chilli and have their minds taken in different directions with resultant posts that;
a) a good news story about someone's autism reality (that came from me)
and
b) constipation (that came from Deepthought)......[oh, ok, he said diet, but not as funny!]
Again, I commend you on presenting salient and important information surrounding these matters. Bravo.
