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Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 3:45:13 AM   
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Published: 7:15AM GMT 29 Jan 2010

Dr Andrew Wakefield, 52, sits at the centre of the controversy which saw millions of parents shun the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and led him to abandon Britain to live in America.

The vast majority of experts in the scientific community agree that the infamous research paper in The Lancet in 1998 that suggested a link between the vaccine and autism and bowel disorders has now been resoundingly discredited.

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Although the study involved just 12 children, it generated a substantial amount of interest.

A subsequent press conference saw the issue elaborated upon, with Dr Wakefield saying he believed the jabs should be given separately, spaced over time.

He said: "For the vast majority of children the MMR vaccine is fine, but I believe there are sufficient anxieties for a case to be made to administer the three vaccinations separately.

"I do not think that the long-term safety trials of MMR are sufficient for giving the three vaccines together."

In the media frenzy that followed his comments made front page news despite government appeals for calm.

Uptake of the MMR vaccine dropped to under 80 per cent nationally and in some places fewer than 50 per cent of children had the recommended two doses.

Cases of measles rose and Britain saw its first death from the disease for 14 years. Mumps reached epidemic levels in Britain in 2005.

Dr Wakefield came under fire from all quarters, and became increasingly isolated, including from researchers who worked with him on the original study.

He has always said he "resisted pressure" to stop his research on the possible links between vaccines, intestinal inflammation and autism.

He left the Royal Free in 2001 by "mutual agreement".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7091767/Andrew-Wakefield---the-man-behind-the-MMR-controversy.html

Just curious about something. i have seen many here say they would not, or have not, had their children immunized. Was this the reason why?

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 6:18:23 AM   
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
Just curious about something. i have seen many here say they would not, or have not, had their children immunized. Was this the reason why?


I can't speak for them, but I believe that it's because they love their children, and they have been convinced by bad science that vaccines aren't safe. Bad science has a lot to answer for...

I've quoted it before but I highly recommend this article from Wired magazine: An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All.



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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 8:54:44 AM   
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Wakefield killed children to make money. The shocking thing is the cult of parents willing to place their children in danger on the say so of this one doctor and a handful of fellow travelers.

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 9:26:04 AM   
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Lizard's dad is not in favor of any vaccines. I am though due to my tenure with the Dept. Of Health (Contagious Diseases). While he has custody, I will allow his beliefs. If given the choices, I will allow the vaccines if they can save her life.

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 10:29:57 AM   
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I guess my problem with this is that none of his results have ever been duplicated. No clinical trial has yielded the same results. Why are people willing to risk their children's lives based upon a man who took blood samples at a birthday party?

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 10:30:39 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: kittinSol

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
Just curious about something. i have seen many here say they would not, or have not, had their children immunized. Was this the reason why?


I can't speak for them, but I believe that it's because they love their children, and they have been convinced by bad science that vaccines aren't safe. Bad science has a lot to answer for...

I've quoted it before but I highly recommend this article from Wired magazine: An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All.

That's a great article.

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 11:46:29 AM   
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I never head of him.

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 3:07:55 PM   
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The PharmaMedia, led by Rupert Murdoch's tabloids, are making Dr. Andrew Wakefield a BigPharma patsy in their desperate effort to bandage the public's hemorrhaging confidence in vaccinations.   Rupert Murdoch's family and business partners are heavily invested in BigPharma, and are losing billions of dollars annually due to growing distrust of media propaganda and widespread aversion to vaccinations.   Murdoch's media, the most powerful in the world, claimed in their TimesOnline, that the public's rejection of MMR vaccinations was caused by Dr. Wakefield's publication inThe Lancet in which he and his co-authors evidenced links to autistic children from the mercury-laden shots.   Quite to the contrary, like the deadly H1N1 vaccine marketed for the 2009 "manufactured pandemic," there were hundreds of medical doctors and scientists who sparked worldwide concern over the MMR vaccine and others containing neurotoxic mercury.   According to BigPharma investigators, all vaccines function as though they were biochemical weapons of mass destruction; ideal for profitable depopulation.   Allegedly, Dr. Wakefield's ordeal with a kangaroo medical court is a blow to the heart of the anti-vaccination movement. In fact, it is just adding heat to the firestorm of condemnation focused on the revolving doors between BigPharma and the agents and agencies advancing propaganda and vaccination policies.   "The Lancet said it should not have published the study," the Associated Press reported, and that Wakefield's links to litigation against the manufacturers of the MMR vaccine were a "fatal conflict of interest."   "The most 'fatal conflict of interest' is Murdoch's private equity investments in the drug companies and vaccine makers that make people sick from side effects caused by their unsafe and largely ineffective products," reports Dr. Leonard Horowitz, Editor-in-Chief of Medical Veritas(Medical Truth) journal on whose advisory board Dr. Wakefield has honorably served for years.   Few people know that Rupert Murdoch serves as a director of the Associated Press, News Corporation, FOX News, Time Warner, and many more mainstream media companies including the TimesOnline that broke this story.   ropaganda is used to control people's minds, and vaccinations are used to contaminate people's bodies with agents that produce deadly debilitating diseases that are said to require medical management.   Controlling diseases and people this way, including the vast majority of autoimmune diseases and cancer patients, is obviously most profitable for the world's leading drug makers; especially Merck & Co., and GlaxoSmithKlein (GSK). James Murdoch, heir apparent to Rupert's fortune, oversees GSK's board of directors, according to the company's website.   Rupert's partners in pushing propaganda and public intoxications through vaccinations for global depopulation, include Thomas H. Glocer, director of Reuter's News Service and Merck & Co. Murdoch and Glocer are also partners in the David Rockefeller founded, Royal Family of England chartered, Partnership For New York City (PFNYC)--the world's most powerful drug ring and biotechnology consortium.   "Dr. Wakefield's crucifixion is a desperate well-orchestrated effort to restore faith in risky vaccinations that the majority of people worldwide no longer trust," said Dr. Horowitz.  
  "In its ruling, the disciplinary panel concluded that Wakefield acted dishonestly and was misleading in the way he described his study," the Murdoch-directed AP reported. Wakefield's medical jurists said he should have disclosed his expert witness fees paid by lawyers acting for parents whose children had been killed or damaged from vaccines.     "How's that for the pot calling the kettle black?" Dr. Horowitz asked Steve Gilmour on the BBC Affiliated Talk Radio Europe, referencing Murdoch's dishonesty and failure to disclose the financial reasons his newspapers persecute Dr. Wakefield. "Such yellow press exclusively benefits the Rockefeller-directed PharmaMedia." (Click here to listen to this interview on You Tube.)    
    In "Pharmaganda: A Study of Conflicting Interests," Dr. Horowitz, and Murdoch News Corporation defector and investigative journalist Sherri Kane, co-authored an expose on the PharmaMedia and their monopolization of medical education and public persuasion.   Horowitz and Kane investigatedDavid Rockefeller's leadership and partners in the PFNYC in which Rupert Murdoch serves as Co-Chair. These authors concluded that the PharmaMedia's persecution of Dr. Wakefield further evidences a "hostile takeover" of science, medicine, and common sense.   This "conspiracy reality" is adequately detailed in the current issue of Medical Veritas(freely available online until February 15, 2009.)   The other PFNYC Co-chair is Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman-Sachs who also directs ABC-Disney and AstroZeneca--a company that joined Merck & Co., and GlaxoSmithKlein, in producing H1N1 vaccines for world consumption.    
    "After the H1N1 vaccine fraud was exposed, more than half of the medical doctors worldwide, and more than sixty-percent of nurses in the UK and America, refused to take or give these deadly shots," Dr. Horowitz explained. "The billions of dollars of unsafe and generally-ineffective vaccines stockpiled by governments are now a major liability, not only financially, but in terms of reliability of the vaccine industry and information sourcing from David Rockefeller's malfeasant officials in the World Health Organization (WHO). After their 'shortage marketing' efforts failed, they began using every possible ploy to use up these deadly vaccines."   The PharmaMedia has published nothing about the EU Parliament Council's investigation of the WHO conspiring with the vaccine industry following the scientific fraud and public fright orchestrated by these suspects, Dr. Horowitz notes. He charges those aiding and abetting BigPharma, secreting this urgent information, with administering "iatrogenocide"--medical mass murder.   "Wakefield probably gave youngsters five pounds each at his son's birthday party as a gift for helping to advance legitimate vaccine science with parental permissions," Dr. Horowitz concluded. "It is pathetic this kindness is being used against him as an alleged ethics violation...."   "Dr. Wakefield is only guilty of joining hundreds of other scientists proving what common sense tells any reasonable person--injecting people with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, including mercury, in these biochemical weapons, called 'vaccinations,' is risky and often deadly."read the rest of it here   ->

http://www.rense.com/general89/murd.htm

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 5:47:52 PM   
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You take one doctor publishing a study of 12 kids and drawing a conclusion, add media who will do anything for big ratings, throw in parents who believe everything written in media and you have a toxic mix.

You know, if people had reacted this way with the polio vaccine, nurses would still be getting lessons in how to take care of people in iron lungs.
I worked in an ER for 10 years and never had a kid bought in dying from a vaccine. Its not scientific, but would seem to show a trend.
I have , however, seen a kid with whooping cough. Now, that is something you don't ever want to see your kids with, and vaccines have prevented the vast majority of parents from having to go through that.

Vaccines good - doctor&media&parents -bad.

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 5:58:46 PM   
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thats right- --injections with mercury and other adjuvants are something the NWO wants.   the more the merrier.

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 6:24:22 PM   
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I'd rather have an infinitesimal amount of mercury in my system rather than diphteria, polio or tuberculosis. In any event, because of the misguided public hysteria, thimerosal has been withdrawn from vaccines - which was a mistake: if only you'd take the trouble to read that Wired article I linked above... it's a mine of information. Incidentally:

"A study published in 2002 of infants who were 6 months of age or younger compared the levels of mercury in the blood, hair, urine, and stool of 40 who received vaccines containing thimerosal and 20 who received vaccines without thimerosal. The study found:
  • Mercury levels in blood and urine were low in all infants studied and in many cases too small to measure. There was no observed dose-dependent relationship between the level of thimerosal received through vaccination and the level of mercury in the body.
  • Mercury levels in blood did not exceed, at any time, the blood levels that correspond to Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for exposure.
  • Mercury levels in the stool of infants receiving vaccines containing thimerosal were relatively high compared to mercury levels in the stool of infants who were not exposed to thimerosal, providing evidence that mercury from thimerosal is eliminated in the stool of infants. "

http://www.quackwatch.org/03HealthPromotion/immu/thimerosal.html You're going to love the name of the URL ;-) .

In any event...

In 2005, the U.S. Center for Disease Control issued the following stats:

Diphtheria
Cases per year (average) before vaccines: 175,885
Cases in 2003: 1
Decrease in cases per year:  99.9%

Hib (<5 yrs old)
Cases per year (average) before vaccines: 20,000 (estimate)
Cases in 2003: 259
Decrease in cases per year:  98.8%

Measles
Cases per year (average) before vaccines: 503,282
Cases in 2003: 56
Decrease in cases per year:  99.9%

Mumps
Cases per year (average) before vaccines: 152,209
Cases in 2003: 231
Decrease in cases per year:  99.9%

Pertussis (whooping cough)
Cases per year (average) before vaccines: 147,271
Cases in 2003: 11,647
Decrease in cases per year:  92.1%

Polio (paralytic)
Cases per year (average) before vaccines: 16,316
Cases in 2003: 0
Decrease in cases per year:  100.0%

Rubella
Cases per year (average) before vaccines: 47,745
Cases in 2003: 7
Decrease in cases per year:  99.9%

Smallpox
Cases per year (average) before vaccines: 48,164
Cases in 2003: 0
Decrease in cases per year:  100.0%

Tetanus
Cases per year (average) before vaccines: 1,314
Cases in 2003: 20
Decrease in cases per year:  98.5%

Remember measles? It's no ride in the park.

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 6:54:22 PM   
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yes- but the Hippocratic oath a Dr MUST do no harm.

Anything less then that is not acceptable.

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 1/31/2010 7:06:34 PM   
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I would not want to be the parent who refused giving a needed vaccine to a little child only to see him or her get a crippling disease later in life. I have two healthy little grand daughters and they will get every vaccine there is to stay that way.

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 2/2/2010 4:14:57 PM   
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Perhaps you missed kittenSol's point - vaccines good
diseases bad!

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RE: Andrew Wakefield - the man behind the MMR controversy - 2/2/2010 4:51:20 PM   
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Hysteria is so much more palatable when it's shouted at you.
 
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