Dr Andrew Wakefield
I don’t know how many of you will remember Dr Andrew Wakefield. He was a British physician who, in my opinion, was struck off the medical register unjustly His crime was to find a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism. This was referred to as the Lancet MMR autism fraud.
Shortly after Dr Andrew Wakefield made his discovery – along with another 12 co- authors of the published study – epidemiological studies were undertaken. The idea that the MMR vaccine may trigger autism because autism and the MMR vaccine occur together in early childhood - was frowned on as it was deemed that no link could be found because of this association.
Following this 10 of the co-authors of the paper retracted their interpretation of the original data.
Mudslinging followed. Dr Wakefield had been funded by lawyers who had been involved in lawsuits against companies producing vaccines. Nevertheless, the Lancet did exonerate Dr Wakefield and colleagues from these charges.
But the mud-slinging went on.
On May 10th 2010, Dr Andrew Wakefield was struck off the medical register.
Now we fast forward eleven years and
A new study published in Pediatric Health Medicine and Therapeutics concludes that there is "as significant relationship between mercury and autism." Enough for it to be listed as a cause of autism.
There is an ingredient in MMR vaccines – as well as others – known as Thimerosol. It is an organic form of mercury and it damages brains – more so in very young and vulnerable babies.
Thimerosol is also found in the insulin injections that diabetics inject on a daily basis. Diabetes are known to be at risk of neurodegenerative disorders and I do not believe that it is all to do with raised blood sugar levels. They also contain a pesticide which is considered to be a preservative.
Fortunately, I am of an age when the MMR wasn’t around. I had all the childhood illnesses and remember making snowmen when I had mumps and bouncing up and down on the bed when I had measles because the order of the day was to lie in a darkened room and I was bored.
My children weren’t so lucky. They all had the MMR and all are on the autistic spectrum. I remember all too well my youngest’s temperature rising rapidly after he was given the MMR and travelling to our local hospital in a blue light ambulance by which time his temperature was 104F. This beautiful bright and bubbly baby changed overnight.
Of course, there has to be a genetic element in how anyone reacts to a vaccine but, of course, you never know which way the dice will roll.
I am the last generation that will remember that we held chickenpox, mumps, measles and German measles parties and lived well to tell the tale. That generation trusted their immune systems. I believe we were right to do so.
However, we should not lose sight of the fact that a perfectly good doctor was hounded out of his profession by the GMC. He was the equivalent of today’s conspiracy theorists and a decade later has been proven right.
Meanwhile, thousands upon thousands of children have suffered damage because profit was more rewarding than the lives of all these children.
Later I will tell you of the work of another hero – Dr Colin Paterson – who was also hounded out of his profession for thinking differently.
It is hard going against the flow. We don’t do it because we have nothing better to do, nor will there be any profit in it. We do it because we genuinely care about the welfare of others as well as ourselves, no matter what it costs us.
I don’t know how many of you will remember Dr Andrew Wakefield. He was a British physician who, in my opinion, was struck off the medical register unjustly His crime was to find a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism. This was referred to as the Lancet MMR autism fraud.
Shortly after Dr Andrew Wakefield made his discovery – along with another 12 co- authors of the published study – epidemiological studies were undertaken. The idea that the MMR vaccine may trigger autism because autism and the MMR vaccine occur together in early childhood - was frowned on as it was deemed that no link could be found because of this association.
Following this 10 of the co-authors of the paper retracted their interpretation of the original data.
Mudslinging followed. Dr Wakefield had been funded by lawyers who had been involved in lawsuits against companies producing vaccines. Nevertheless, the Lancet did exonerate Dr Wakefield and colleagues from these charges.
But the mud-slinging went on.
On May 10th 2010, Dr Andrew Wakefield was struck off the medical register.
Now we fast forward eleven years and
A new study published in Pediatric Health Medicine and Therapeutics concludes that there is "as significant relationship between mercury and autism." Enough for it to be listed as a cause of autism.
There is an ingredient in MMR vaccines – as well as others – known as Thimerosol. It is an organic form of mercury and it damages brains – more so in very young and vulnerable babies.
Thimerosol is also found in the insulin injections that diabetics inject on a daily basis. Diabetes are known to be at risk of neurodegenerative disorders and I do not believe that it is all to do with raised blood sugar levels. They also contain a pesticide which is considered to be a preservative.
Fortunately, I am of an age when the MMR wasn’t around. I had all the childhood illnesses and remember making snowmen when I had mumps and bouncing up and down on the bed when I had measles because the order of the day was to lie in a darkened room and I was bored.
My children weren’t so lucky. They all had the MMR and all are on the autistic spectrum. I remember all too well my youngest’s temperature rising rapidly after he was given the MMR and travelling to our local hospital in a blue light ambulance by which time his temperature was 104F. This beautiful bright and bubbly baby changed overnight.
Of course, there has to be a genetic element in how anyone reacts to a vaccine but, of course, you never know which way the dice will roll.
I am the last generation that will remember that we held chickenpox, mumps, measles and German measles parties and lived well to tell the tale. That generation trusted their immune systems. I believe we were right to do so.
However, we should not lose sight of the fact that a perfectly good doctor was hounded out of his profession by the GMC. He was the equivalent of today’s conspiracy theorists and a decade later has been proven right.
Meanwhile, thousands upon thousands of children have suffered damage because profit was more rewarding than the lives of all these children.
Later I will tell you of the work of another hero – Dr Colin Paterson – who was also hounded out of his profession for thinking differently.
It is hard going against the flow. We don’t do it because we have nothing better to do, nor will there be any profit in it. We do it because we genuinely care about the welfare of others as well as ourselves, no matter what it costs us.