He resigned from his post as executive director of the autism quack-treatment center he founded in Austin, TX in February, following the GMC’s original finding.
Unfortunately, there are apparently plenty of other idiots left at Thoughtful House to continue spreading the disease (although from what I can tell they combine crackpottery with real medicine).
Cue Nelson Munce!
points at Wakefield
Ha-HA!
points at Paul in Qatar
It’s Muntz. Ha-HA!
He said on the Today show this morning that the outcome of the hearing was “determined from the beginning.”
Of course, he also said that the U. S. government has been quietly settling cases of vaccine injury for hears. According to him, the government is conceding these cases in vaccine court. He just lives totally outside of reality.
Doctor Who caused Britain’s MMR scare? :eek:
No wonder it’s on a tape delay here in the states!
Neither. He did it for money, pure and simple, like most other crimes. No other explanation is needed, once you learn that he was both getting payoffs from lawyers and marketing a competing system.
Well, that’s true, in the sense that the facts were always going to show that he was a tool.
If anyone wants to investigate Doc W. further, I’d like to recommend a recent book, Autism’s False Prophets, by Paul Offit, MD. Well written, IMHO.
Sayonara, you evil lying unethical psychopathic bastard. Screw you for causing the preventable deaths of children in order to line your own pockets. If there is a deity out there interested in justice, I hope you suffer the fate that you deserve. What I’d LIKE you to suffer is something I probably should not type out on this board.
I was really pleased to hear about this. I say that as the mother of an autistic child who was born after the scandal.
I don’t think the MMR=autism hype helped with research into the causes of autism at all; the increasing number of diagnoses* would have garnered more attention anyway, and perhaps that autism research money would have been spent in more helpful ways than repeatedly rebutting one tiny, unethical and inconclusive study.
*Mostly down to reclassification rather than an actual increase in the number of autistic people; in the past those on the more obvious end of the spectrum were often named retarded, then institutionalised and ignored, and those on the less obvious end were just considered odd or given some other diagnosis.
Well, people already covered the media part of this equation, but I think another part is just general weakmindedness on the part of the public. The value of expertise is diminished - people don’t trust experts to know what they’re actually doing. They think they somehow know better with their folksy wisdom or their “mommy instinct”. They believe whatever they want to believe, and conspiracy theories appeal to a lot of people. And make no mistake, this is absolutely a conspiracy theory, just as much as NASA faking the moon landings. They think that the people in charge of Evil Western Medicine know absolutely that vaccines cause these problems, but that they cover it up in order to get Evil Corporate Profits, even though vaccination is probably the lowest profit sector of the medical industry.
Which is exactly why stuff like this doesn’t matter. Come out with a well conducted study with millions of people that proves no link? CONSPIRACY! British medical board discredits wakefield? CONSPIRACY! Once you enter the mindset that evidence that discredits your point of view actually helps you, since it proves there’s a conspiracy out to get you, there’s no chance of convincing you of anything. You’re in full blown retard mode.
This is actually true but misleading. Rarely people do actually have bad reactions to vaccines and it can cause medical problems - but it is totally unrelated to autism. But since the government heavily incentives vaccinations (mandatory for public school and such) they created a fund to compensate people with legitimate vaccine injuries. This is only a very very tiny fraction of vaccine cases, and the reactions are things that medical science understands. It has nothing to do with the vaccine/autism nonsense.
points at Really Not All That Bright
It’s HA-Ha. HA-Ha!
Ha-ha-ha-HAA-ha … ha-ha-ha-HAA-ha … ha-ha-ha-ha
Rhythm,
Kickin’ it old school
D’oh!
