Re: The LYING Wakefield and Thimerosal!

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:25:42 -0700 (PDT), Citizen Jimserac
<Jimserac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

" No, they did not, and the reason was quite simple (I keep it simple
for simpletons). There was no need to. Thimerosal removal was based on
the concerns that there would be a decrease in uptake, like that in
England caused by the corrupt and lying Wakefield, which would cause a
resurgence of the diseases. In England, that did happen, and the CDC &
FDA were justly concerned. "

Does anyone know what this is about before I start
googling?

Andrew Wakefield, a Canadian trained surgeon, was employed as a reader
in experimental gastroenterology at London's Royal Free Hospital. He
was lead author on a 1998 study which reported bowel symptoms and the
presence of measles virus in a selected sample of twelve vaccinated
children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and other
disabilities. Although it was not mentioned in the study Wakefield
called a press conference at which he announced, rather to the
surprise of his co-authors, that the cause of autism was possibly MMR
and individual vaccines rather than MMR should be given.

The inevitable furore caused a significant drop in MMR uptake.
Subsequently it was revealed that Wakefield was being paid large sums
by solicitors for parents in the process of suing the manufacturers of
MMR vaccine and the children concerned were children of some of those
parents. He had also patented a "safer" single measles virus vaccine
a short time before the report was published.

10 of the reports 13 authors subsequently withdrew their names from
the study and the Lancet, which had published the study, withdrew it
when they became aware of the conflict of interest.

Later it was proven that actually no measles virus had been detected
during the study so its conclusions were unjustified. The samples
used for tests carried out by Dr O'Leary in Dublin were contaminated
in his laboratory (which has since closed) and this contamination
mislead the researchers.

In his study Wakefield also suppressed evidence from Dr. Stephen
Bustin, probably the worlds leading expert on work of the type carried
out at O'Learys commercial laboratory, which showed an absence of
measles virus in gut samples he analysed for Wakefield. Only after
Bustins negative findings did Wakefield use O'Leary (who was also
carrying out work for the same solicitors paying Wakefield).

In 2001 Wakefield resigned from the Royal Free and moved to America
where he worked at the self-styled International Child Development
Resource Center in Melbourne, Florida, as "director of research".
ICDRC sell various "nutritional supplements" which "supports brain
health at a cellular level" as treatments for autism.

Subsequently he participated in starting the Thoughtful House Center
for Children in Texas where he is currently Executive Director, still
selling "nutritional supplements" and earning considerably more than
he ever did in London.

He is currently subject to and part way through a disciplinary hearing
by the UK General Medical Council for suppressing and falsifying data
in his study as well as mistreating the children in the initial study.


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Relevant Pages

  • ~*Online WACOC News 2006 June 19*~
    ... Those with inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, chrons ... NVIC UK Docs Attack Wakefield ... E-NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER ... "Measles Virus and Measles Vaccine: Lessons to be Learned" and he made ...
    (alt.med.fibromyalgia)
  • Re: Wakefield Discredited
    ... trust in the MMR. ... tissue to a lab to see if there was a measles virus present. ... No one, not even Wakefield or any of his followers, have questioned ... claimants in the UK MMR case. ...
    (misc.health.alternative)
  • Re: Whoop, Whoop
    ... most of what people remember about what Wakefield said didn't originate with him. ... Remember too that when a link was established between the Urabe strain of Mumps virus used in the original MMR, and rare cases of aseptic meningitis, that the original MMR was withdrawn. ... Also note that, for whatever reason, Japan chose to return to the single vaccines so beloved of the campaigners, and by 1998 had seen a return of a handful of deaths from measles annually - strong evidence that MMR is safer in at least Some pretty major aspects than individual jabs, and reason to be Very circumspect about any suggestion that the individual jabs are safer than MMR. ... But now there was a legitimate interest in the data, so, for example, data from IIRC Finland showed that autism occurred in similar rates in those who had and had not received the vaccine. ...
    (uk.rec.sheds)
  • Re: OH DEER OH DEER
    ... > MMR: OH DEER OH DEER ... > THE makers of Channel 4's MMR: What They Never Told You in the Dispatches ... > Deer to present a hatchet job on Dr Andrew Wakefield. ... > trial of a method of boosting immune response to measles virus using cell ...
    (sci.med)
  • Re: Wakefield Discredited
    ... measles virus in any samples he tested. ... paper and Wakefield refused to use his results. ... Unigenetics claimed to have found Measles virus in 80% of the samples ... paper but passed to the solicitors and defendants in the ongoing MMR ...
    (misc.health.alternative)