There is a review of the TV show http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/08/a_dose_of_controversy_more_like_a_dose_o.php
Of course, on pathology, Thoughtful House pathologists apparently found "mild inflammation." What did Krigsman prescribe? Lots of supplements, daily laxatives, and periodic colon cleansing. Can you imagine subjecting an autistic child to laxatives and colon cleanses? As far as I'm concerned, that's child abuse, particularly given that there's no scientific justification for it.
Sadly, A Dose of Controversy falls into the same trap that so many media examinations of pseudoscience fall into. It applied the journalistic convention designed for stories about politics, legal matters, and other human conflict to something it's not well-suited for, the battle between pseudoscience and science. In doing so, it gives the impression that there is actually far more to the pseudoscience than there in fact is. Even worse, it dollops onto that convention another cliche, namely the iconoclast, the rebel, the "brave maverick doctor bucking the system against who the system stands united. Pile it all together, and it was a huge missed opportunity. Two statements illustrate this well, both occuring near the end of the report. First Lauer describes Wakefield as a man who will listen to these parents, respond to them, and stand up for them, while Wakefield says, "I don't know if vaccines cause autism. I know it's a question that needs to be asked and I'm not going to walk away from it." I predict that the phones at Thoughtful House will be ringing off the hook this week.
Thank you JJM.
It wasn't 100% bad, but Deer could have been treated with more respect and they gave the quacks wayyyyy too much benefit of the doubt.
Wakefield should have gotten burned for what he has done, but again he's just the guy who listens to parents. He listens alright, and then feeds and banks on their fears. That is just plain disgusting. Shame on Lauer and NBC!
You are a fool to believe big-pharma over sound science backed by placebo studies..
Vaccine studies, the majority that I have found, use another vaccine as the "control" group, you can't use 2 vaccines in a study to test 1 vaccine, you have to use 1 vaccine (the one you're testing) and nothing at all "placebo" (for the control group)
These vaccine manufacturers do not use placebo studies, they are the biggest fraud in medical history.
If you think Wakefield is your enemy? You are dead wrong, Snyderman is our enemy, she works for the pigs that profit from feeding us.. ROCKEFELLER snake-oil!!!
it all started in 1901, where this vaccine crap came from..
Dr. Russell Blaylock:
"Who created orthodox medicine? Where did that come from? Well, it actually came from the Rockefeller Foundation back in 1901. The Rockefellers at the time...because of the Standard Oil scandals, no one wanted to be called a
Rockefeller. Everybody hated all the Ro...ckefellers. And so his friend Reve...rend Gates, went to John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and told him, he said, "Well, here's a way we can repair your reputation." And he gave him a good example. He said, "There was this man who everybody hated... and he started giving money out for all sorts of philanthropic enterprises, and soon people forgot all of the bad things. So the first thing, because Gates' father was a physician, and John D. Rockefeller's father was a quack snake-oil
salesmen, he said, "Let's form the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research." And so they created this in 1901. Rockefeller owned what was
called the drug trust: that's the major drug manufacturing firms..."
Nancy Snyderman is great. She cuts through the bull that so many sCamers and med woos toss out there.
Drew Pinsky is also great about going after alt-med on Loveline. He goes into this rant whenever anyone mentions "toxins".
[TV Docs] ...have no real understanding about Bio-Chemistry, and could not find one valid vaccine study ever done to prove their view or recommendation as justified by science, but instead their motives are for mass-poisoning.
Heh. Way to live up to your the impression your name provides. I was kinda hoping you were going to be a parody. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Vaccine studies are performed against placebo. Sorry.
Linda
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I'm no bio-chemist, but are you saying that vaccines against Polio, Measles and so on do not help prevent those diseases? Or that small-pox wasn't eradicated by way of vaccination?
I'd think the arguments would be over in light of the history on the subject. And while we are at it, where's the fake vaccine for HIV? I suppose in that case, the Great Medical Conspiracy makes more money by selling another menu of drugs, so it wouldn't be cost effective to develop a vaccine.
You know what? This conspiracy weaving is fun!
Can I ask if you're a doctor? Or if you have a background in medicine?
Great video. If I heard it right, thimerosal (the mercury containing preservative) was removed from vaccines and the rate of autism has increased?
Thimerosal prevents autism!
Now I need a website and a "click to purchase" link.
The video was worth watching. She didn't back down, not for a second. The last few seconds are something to see, not just read about. I have someone else to add to my hero list now.
Vaccines against polio caused more polio than the actual virus.
Once people, in a society, sets up food and safety standards, start washing their hands/bodies with REAL soap(not petroleum) bathe and drink in pure water, not the toxic water in most cities, eat healthier foods... like raw and organic, getting enough exercise and sunlight, taking supplements if the body is deficient or if you know you haven't been eating right.
.Good luck finding a study that uses an actual placebo. If you do find one of these rare studies, note the amount of time 2-4 weeks. Not long enough. People have admitted having kidney failure this year up to 8 weeks after vaxes. Cancers take much longer.
We conducted a multicenter, prospective, randomized, double-blind trial of influenza immunization in patients with relapsing/remitting MS. In the autumn of 1993, 104 patients at five MS centers received either standard influenza vaccine or placebo. Patients were followed for 6 months for evaluation of neurologic status and the occurrence of influenza
That should be verifiable.
Do you have a placebo condition in mind to test this experiment? My guess is that you would want a serious double blind in place to confirm the results.
I said --"And while we are at it, where's the fake vaccine for HIV?"
You asked --"What are you talking about here? are you referring to Bayer spreading aids knowingly?"
No, nothing to do with Bayer. I was just thinking that the vaccine conspiracy was missing an opportunity. After all, wasn't the idea that they fake up vaccines as a way to weaken otherwise healthy people so they will then become customers? (Reminds me of the Microsoft business model actually.) Forgive me if I misunderstood the thrust of your ideas.