Callous Disregard

[Why Syzygy]

http://www.amazon.com/Callous-Disregard-Autism-Vaccines-Tragedy/dp/1616081694/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top


This review is from: Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy (Hardcover)
Dr. Wakefield, a pediatric gastro-enterologist, narrates in plain-spoken English and with meticulous documentation, the audacious treatment of the GMC, the Lancet, et. al., towards him -- for being a member of a medical team that published a case series study suggesting the hypothesis of a link between autism and GI disorder. No where in that now famous -- and retracted -- Lancet article is there a statement that Dr. Wakefield found or believed in a link between autism and the MMR. Rather, eight of the 12 parents of the original patients were reported as stating they believed there was a link.

Dr Wakefield takes us through the details of the politics, the equivocations and downright lies of expert witnesses for the prosecution. No one who reads this book could come away believing that Dr. Wakefield was anyone but a doctor trying his best to further medical science and the health of children.

One reviewer has stated that the U.S. will one day acknowledge the devastation of autism when our autistic children are grown. Oh, how I wish that were true. Vietnam Vets did not get rights until they organized and lobbied hard for the accommodations needed to help them lead more normal lives. How can our children, many of whom do not speak, understand personal interaction, or power and politics, or even their basic rights, organize as adults to convince government that they are much deserving of ongoing home, health, educational, and therapeutic benefits, especially because their government failed to protect them from this devastating disorder?

Yes, here they come. But where will they go?

[laconicsax]

1. Does he talk about the part where he was paid to come up with a study undermined the MMR vax?

What about the part where he was trying to promote his own MMR vaccine? Does he talk about that?
Does he talk about the part where he falsified data in his Lancet study?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Book Lover]

2. "How can our children, many of whom do not speak, understand personal interaction..." etc, etc

Um, you are aware that many, many persons on the spectrum can do these very things; even to the extent that they post here on DU?

[LeftishBrit]

3. There is a big difference...

between not caring about autism and not thinking that it was caused by vaccines.

OF COURSE people with autism are much deserving of ongoing home, health, educational, and therapeutic benefits. Who says that they aren't???!!!

Are people only entitled to government help and support if their problems were caused by a vaccine?

People with autism are also deserving of more genuine research into the nature and causes of autism, and not having it diverted into Wakefield's pet theories.

(From someone who has another disorder - Crohns- which Wakefield et al tried to attribute to the MMR vaccine.)

[semillama]

4. Hilarious!

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[trotsky]

5. "Foreword by Jenny McCarthy"

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[Orrex]

9. Does the foreword include pictures?

[trotsky]

10. A great one of her, no doubt!

Wasn't that from her Nobel Prize ceremony?

What a scientist for our times.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

6. "Dr" Wakefield has trouble with the truth

And the real tragedy is that he has probably done the most damage to autism research of any single person in the world. While the medical community chased its collective tale over Wakefield's "research", money and time could have been spent on real avenues of discovery.

Wakefield is a dishonest, money-grubbing fool. Those who fall for his bullshit are helping to promote bad science and hurt the search for real answers.

:mad:

[Odin2005]

7. I almost blew my top when I saw that POS at the front of the bookstore!

Fuck that fraudulent BASTARD!

[Codeine]

8. Fraudulent Douchebaggery for Fun and Profit. Foreword by Jenny McDumbshit. nt

[MineralMan]

11. Nominated for the fastest trip to the remainders shelf since

Ann Coulter's last book.

[laconicsax]

12. Is the OP going to respond to anything on this thread?

:shrug:

[uppityperson]

13. kcik

[mzmolly]

15. Thanks.

:hi:

[Odin2005]

14. nm