Bad MMR Info Hits the Fan

[Chris Haynes]

Well, not only is there a doctor in the UK who faked test results on the effectiveness of low-quality single jabs for measles... and is going away for 10 years:
http://www.thisishertfordshire.co.u...5337.0.pugh_admits_faking_vaccine_results.php

BUT... Brian Deer has reported that the instigator of the MMR scare had financial reasons above and beyond lawyers who wanted data for their own use... he wanted to sell his own vaccine. This is very weird:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1358605,00.html

(make sure you read the second page)

 

[Eos of the Eons]

Oh yes. The types of darlings the antivaccinators like to worship.

1st article:

He told parents the £70 jabs were safer than the Government's combined MMR vaccine, but his operation fell apart after two doctors, Dr Andrew Eardley and Dr Adrian Waldron, told Hertsmere's NHS bosses that Pugh was making them give out-of-date, diluted, or poor quality jabs to children...
In a desperate attempt to save his business Pugh offered to give the children blood tests, to prove they had been vaccinated...

On Monday, Pugh admitted that instead of sending out the genuine test results, he made photocopies of his 26-year-old daughter's results and sent them to parents.

2nd article:

One of the applications dated June 1998 claims that it is “not only most probably safer to administer to children by way of vaccination/immunisation, but which also can be used to treat regressive behavioural disease, whether as a complete cure or to alleviate symptoms.”

The product was to be made by a process involving the measles virus, the white blood cells of mice and goats’ milk.

So they scare people away from the cheaper, safer, more effective vaccine and offer the crap single jabs instead. Not only that, but planned to make even more money "curing" autism with more crap products.

Ah yes. Wakefield is a hero. He is saving kids from getting autism and offering his oh so quality alternative in order to protect them from measles. Then he is saving kids who already have autism with even more quality cures.

Most folks who hail him as a hero also prefer "alternatives", but I don't think those include other animals' blood cells.

And he thought he could get away with this? Well, I guess he got away with it for a while, and that is scariest thing about this. People willing to believe him. People with their own agendas helping him with his.

I'm not into conspiracy theories, but this is hardly just a conspiracy theory. It is far more factual than Wakefield's accusations about the goverment being in cahoots with drug companies and causing autism.

 

[anonimouse]

I always figured there was something more to the Wakefield deal than just getting paid by trial lawyers - I'd heard rumors that he had some patents with regards to viral diagnostic tools, but this is the first I've heard of him having a patent on a vaccine.

 

[Rolfe]

The Dispatches documentary linked to the Sunday Times story is going out this Thursday on Channel 4. They were trailing it this evening. Not to be missed.

Wakefield is a complete scumbag. Indeed, a stupid complete scumbag. To add to his vacuous suggestions that three vaccines at once could "overload the immune system", we add consorting with known woos, and trying to patent something which is not just a vaccine itself but allegedly "cures" alleged vaccine-related illnesses. Now maybe I'm just hidebound, but I can't easily see how one preparation could possibly do both.

It was all obviously aimed at making the Wakefield fortune, and the Royal Free seem to have fallen for it hook line and sinker (wave a patent application and stuff like that before a hospital or university administrator and they'll assume you're God). Even though it then seems to have misfired in quite a few directions, I speculate that Wakefield, having joined the woo talk-shows and the woo advice dispensers, is probably coining it hand over fist in any case.

Anybody have any insight into the scumbag's bank balance?

Rolfe.

 

[Mojo]

I had always wondered why he felt the need to announce what looked like preliminary findings from a very small sample at a press conference (isn't that one of the basic markers for Bad Science?).

 

[Eos of the Eons]

Oh, but Wakefield is unaffected by any sort of nonsense about his patents. Here is a nice site about the effectiveness of homeopathy AND news of Wakefield's recent escapades against vaccines:

International Symposium on Vaccination, London NW1
12th - 13th November 2004

The UK's First International Symposium on Vaccination will be held at Friends' Meeting House, Euston Road, London NW1.

Speakers include Viera Scheibner, Andrew Wakefield, Randall Neustaedter, Alan Yurko, Kris Gaublomme, Ingri Cassel and Meryl Dorey.

For more information visit their website.

http://www.informedparent.co.uk/events.html

Alan Yurko is in jail, did he join via satellite from his cell??????

Veira, that chick with a PHD in geology is still an esteemed expert on vaccines?

Nice barf fest. http://www.informedparent.co.uk/events.html

Hmm, went to the symposium web site...
http://www.internationalsymposium.co.uk/

It is with great regret that we have to announce that the Symposium is cancelled. We thought it would have been easy to sell a minimum of 300 tickets, with a possibility to sell up to 1000 tickets. However, people are evidently not interested in investing the equivalent of an entertaining night out in such important information.

Hahahahah! I relish their begging: "Please buy our books so we can repay those who actually bought tickets".
Is there hope yet? People are finally ignoring these lying vipers?

*hint of hope lighting inside*

*slightly fades*
http://www.internationalsymposium.co.uk/news/news6.htm

Argh. Oh yes, vaccines cause bruising and death years after vaccination.
Not only that, but my own son has been on risperdone for half of his lifetime without any harmful side effects. He didn't even get the weight gain that some other kids did get. Kids generally don't get put on Risperidone and Ritalin either. One does has the opposite effect from the other. My son was put on a drug like ritalin and it made him even more hyper and freaked out from any little thing. Risperdone was the one thing that brought him onto planet earth and allowed for some normal interaction with others.

Another so called "victim" to parade to anti-vaccinators.
I wonder what the real story is? Good thing is I hadn't heard of this before, unlike all the hype the Yurko case got.

 

[Eos of the Eons]

Well, they are really grasping at straws on the "Christina" case.

An autopsy revealed that Nicholas died of internal bleeding caused by blunt force trauma. He also suffered a spine injury and bruises.

At the time of Nicholas' death, Henderson Police Detective Tony Purcell said the investigation had revealed that there was a "pattern of abuse in the past and injuries he suffered in the months prior to his death are consistent to injuries that he suffered the night of his death."

http://reg.courierpress.com/ecp/web..._news/article/0,1626,ECP_4476_3283289,00.html

It's called an Alford plea, allowing Cutteridge to go from a Class A felony wanton murder charge with a possible sentence of 20-50 years, to a Class C second degree manslaughter felony, with sentencing ranging from 5-10 years. Markwell says, "She didn't admit it to the jury but the judge found her guilty."

http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=2489869

And the antivaccinators have the nerve to blame vaccines for this?

 

[Chris Haynes]

In the UK they created a drama based on the MMR controversy call "Hear the Silence", see:
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DFFD.htm

NOW... I think a much more compelling TV-movie would be one where a dishonest narcissist medical researcher like Wakefield was profiled... with sideline stories pointing to the Pugh guy who used expired single jabs for measles with high prices PLUS the consequences --- the two kids waiting for transplants who became blind when they caught measles because of the breakdown of herd immunity.

Hey, where is Rouser2?