Callous Disregard, what he really said.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

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


This review is from: Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy (Hardcover)
I had the pleasure of thanking Dr. Wakefield, for his work on behalf of injured children, myself at the 2008 Autism One Conference in Chicago. I looked forward to reading the book but having heard Dr. Wakefield speak and reading numerous articles on the issue, knew that there would be no surprises for me inside.

Before ordering the book, I carefully read many of the positive reviews but ALL of the negative reviews and the related comments because I wanted to see it through the eyes of both sides.

I need to preface that I have read the Lancet paper several times. The conclusion never changes for me no matter how many times I read it in light of the accusations against Dr. Wakefield. In the Discussion section of the paper there is this statement "We did not prove an association between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and the syndrome described" and the last paragraph of the study "We have identified a chronic enterocolitis in children that may be related to neuropsychiatric dysfunction. Inmost cases, onset of symptoms was after measles, mumps, and rubella immunisation. Further investigations are needed to examine this syndrome and its possible relation to this vaccine."

Dr. Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues clearly NEVER said that the MMR was the cause of these children's autism. After reading the book and the timeline of events, it is clear that procedures were followed to the letter to provide clinical care to some very sick children and the findings were reported in an effort to move the discussion forward to help the Lancet 12 children, the many children who were presenting with similar symptoms and open the discussions for research so that more children would not suffer unnecessarily.

If you read the Lancet paper and this book and come to any other conclusion, you are reading with blinders on and an unreasonable bias.

I cannot thank Dr. Wakefield enough for his courage in this situation and for continuing to fight for the children in speight of the absolutely ridiculous charges against him and his colleague Dr. John Walker-Smith.

The book is excellent and meticulously written.

I hope that it will continue to open people's eyes to the issues of informed consent in the US vaccination policy and place a seed of doubt about the safety of vaccines in the mind of parents who have not yet vaccinated their children. I cannot tell my friends with new babies enough times, "Educate before you vaccinate, there are risks, and those risks DO NOT always outweigh the benefits."

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Fucksake.

Wakefield and Walker-Smith were censured foir research misconduct and struck off the medical register. And the supposed "syndrome" in the paper did not exist and in fact was not supported by the medical records of the children in the study (who in any case represented far too small a sample size from which to draw conclusions).

See the following, from part one of a three-part series in the British Medical Journal:

The paper gave the impression that the authors had been scrupulous in documenting the patients’ cases. “Children underwent gastroenterological, neurological, and developmental assessment and review of developmental records,” it explained, specifying that Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV37 criteria were used for neuropsychiatric diagnoses. “Developmental histories included a review of prospective developmental records from parents, health visitors, and general practitioners.”

But, when the details were dissected before the GMC panel, multiple discrepancies emerged. A syndrome necessarily requires at least some consistency, but, as the records were laid out, Wakefield’s crumbled.

First to crack was “regressive autism,” the bedrock of his allegations. “Bear in mind that we are dealing with regressive autism in these children, not of classical autism where the child is not right from the beginning,” he later explained, for example, to a United States congressional committee.

But only one—child 2—clearly had regressive autism. Three of nine so described clearly did not. None of these three even had autism diagnoses, either at admission or on discharge from the Royal Free.

The paper did not reveal that two of this trio were brothers, living 60 miles south of the hospital. Both had histories of fits and bowel problems recorded before their MMR vaccinations. The elder, child 6, aged 4 years at admission, had Asperger’s syndrome, which is distinct from autism under DSM-IV, is not regressive, and was confirmed on discharge. His brother, child 7, was admitted at nearly 3 years of age without a diagnosis, and a post-discharge letter from senior paediatric registrar and Lancet coauthor David Casson summarised: “He is not thought to have features of autism.”

http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full

It does not matter what you personally may wish to believe; the EVIDENCE shows that Wakefield was a fraud and his bogus study was rigged.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Yokay. n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. "Hello, I have no response!"

[WilliamPitt]

4. Good to see you again

:toast:

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. Thanks.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. Why respond to that or any of the piffle that was bound to surface? n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. The only piffle that's surfaced here is your OP fellating Andrew Wakefield...

for his fraudulent research and praising his utterly discredited book.

[Odin2005]

5. Fuck that fraud.

[SidDithers]

9. Defending Wakefield? Really?...

:rofl:

Sid

[Capitalocracy]

10. You know, Wakefield changed the dates in that study.

The kids he claimed contracted autism due to vaccination had autism before they were vaccinated.

It's a pretty open and shut case of deliberate fraud for financial gain.

[Swede]

11. Not this horseshit again!

It makes DU look bad.

[laconicsax]

12. Yes, poor "Dr." Wakefield. He had to lie--the data were biased against him!

Thanks to his courageous acts, the world now knows that the MMR vaccine causes autism in children who were autistic prior to vaccination. Without him, children wouldn't have had the opportunity to get their blood drawn at a birthday party, nor the chance to endure painful, unauthorized procedures.

So let's all take some time to thank "Dr." Wakefield for falsifying data in order to profit from the ensuing vaccine scare!