Dr Wakefield: Britain Bans Dr Who Linked Autism To Vaccines

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Of course, the tradicional media drives on the defamation agenda as ussual, but, in the other side, I don't really know much of his own case . . .


Dr Andrew Wakefield struck off medical register


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Dr Andrew Wakefield: Britain Bans Doctor Who Linked Autism To Vaccines

British Dr. Andrew Wakefield was responsible for the main study that linked autism to vaccinations in 1998. Since then, vaccination rates have plummeted in Britain from 95% to 50%, and Britain has banned him from practicing medicine there. Here's Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia:
That is Andrew Wakefield's legacy...The hospitalizations and deaths of children from measles who could have easily avoided the disease.
Here's actors Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy, who leading advocates for the vaccination-autism link:
It is our most sincere belief that Dr. Wakefield and parents of children with autism around the world are being subjected to a remarkable media campaign engineered by vaccine manufacturers.

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Britain bans doctor who linked autism to vaccine



By MARIA CHENG
AP Medical Writer

LONDON (AP) -- The doctor whose research linking autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella influenced millions of parents to refuse the shot for their children was banned Monday from practicing medicine in his native Britain.

Dr. Andrew Wakefield's 1998 study was discredited - but vaccination rates have never fully recovered and he continues to enjoy a vocal following, helped in the U.S. by endorsements from celebrities like Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy

Wakefield was the first researcher to publish a peer-reviewed study suggesting a connection between autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella. Legions of parents abandoned the vaccine, leading to a resurgence of measles in Western countries where it had been mostly stamped out. There are outbreaks across Europe every year and sporadic outbreaks in the U.S.

"That is Andrew Wakefield's legacy," said Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "The hospitalizations and deaths of children from measles who could have easily avoided the disease."

Wakefield's discredited theories had a tremendous impact in the U.S., Offit said, adding: "He gave heft to the notion that vaccines in general cause autism."

In Britain, Wakefield's research led to a huge decline in the number of children receiving the MMR vaccine: from 95 percent in 1995 - enough to prevent measles outbreaks - to 50 percent in parts of London in the early 2000s. Rates have begun to recover, though not enough to prevent outbreaks. In 2006, a 13-year-old boy became the first person to die from measles in Britain in 14 years.

"The false suggestion of a link between autism and the MMR vaccine has done untold damage to the UK vaccination program," said Terence Stephenson, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. "Overwhelming scientific evidence shows that it is safe."

On Monday, Britain's General Medical Council, which licenses and oversees doctors, found Wakefield guilty of serious professional misconduct and stripped him of the right to practice medicine in the U.K. Wakefield said he plans to appeal the ruling, which takes effect within 28 days.

The council was acting on a finding in January that Wakefield and two other doctors showed a "callous disregard" for the children in their study, published in 1998 in the medical journal Lancet. The medical body said Wakefield took blood samples from children at his son's birthday party, paying them 5 pounds (about $7.20) each and later joked about the incident.

The study has since been widely rejected. From 1998-2004, studies in journals including the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatrics and BMJ published papers showing no link between autism and the measles vaccine.

Wakefield moved to the U.S. in 2004 and set up an autism research center in Austin, Texas, where he gained a wide following despite being unlicensed as a doctor there and facing skepticism from the medical community. He quit earlier this year.

Offit said he doubted Britain's decision to strip the 53-year-old Wakefield of his medical license would convince many parents that vaccines are safe.

"He's become almost like a Christ-like figure and it doesn't matter that science has proven him wrong," Offit said. "He is a hero for parents who think no one else is listening to them."

Wakefield told The Associated Press Monday's decision was a sad day for British medicine. "None of this alters the fact that vaccines can cause autism," he said.

"These parents are not going away; the children are not going to go away and I most certainly am not going away," he said on NBC's "Today Show."

Wakefield claimed the U.S. government has been settling cases of vaccine-induced autism since 1991.

However, two rulings by a special branch of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in March and last year found no link between vaccines and autism. More than 5,500 claims have been filed by families seeking compensation for children they claim were hurt by the vaccine.

Wakefield has won support from parents suspicious of vaccines, including Hollywood celebrities.

McCarthy, who has an autistic son, issued a statement in February with then boyfriend Carrey asserting Wakefield was "being vilified through a well-orchestrated smear campaign."

"It is our most sincere belief that Dr. Wakefield and parents of children with autism around the world are being subjected to a remarkable media campaign engineered by vaccine manufacturers," the actors said.

McCarthy, whose best-seller "Louder Than Words" details her search for treatments for her son Evan, wrote the foreword for a new book by Wakefield about autism and vaccines.

In Monday's ruling, the medical council said Wakefield abused his position as a doctor and "brought the medical profession into disrepute."

At the time of his study, Wakefield was working as a gastroenterologist at London's Royal Free Hospital and did not have approval for the research. The study suggested autistic children had a bowel disease and raised the possibility of a link between autism and vaccines. He had also been paid to advise lawyers representing parents who believed their children had been hurt by the MMR vaccine.

Ten of the study's authors later renounced its conclusions and it was retracted by the Lancet in February.

At least a dozen British medical associations, including the Royal College of Physicians, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust have issued statements verifying the safety of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.

This verdict is not about (the measles) vaccine," said Adam Finn, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Bristol Medical School. "We all now know that the vaccine is remarkably safe and enormously effective... We badly need to put this right for the sake of our own children and children worldwide."

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Associated Press Writer Kelley Shannon contributed to this report from Austin, Texas.

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We had some good prior posts on Autism here at TIU by Jenny Lake:

The Vegan Conspiracy -- parts I,II,III:
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Jew Corrupter Zev Labins and the case of Dr. Reb. Carley:
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Throwing children into oncoming traffic: The truth about Autism
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The Kids with Autism are basically "tripping on gut flora LSD 24/7..." with most of them them having "digestive" problems... get the old pinworm medicine from the 1950s-1980s to kill the "trip" production. In my experience, most Austic kids seem to be on a permanent Psychedelic Trip... with the same reactions and same bodily harm during "bad" trips... same repetitions and foci... all "other worldly"... probably related to human immuno-reactions to "gluten" in the gut since gluten has risen tremendously in Breads since the 1980s. The micro-Flora in the gut are creating a type of "St. Anthony's fire" from the diet internally like the poisonings with fermented rye which produces an ergot... remember that  Autism isn't seen in Asia except with kids that eat a "western" diet... go figure... vaccines likely kill some type of microflora that prevents the "trip" production in the gut.  --The CSR

My second patient with autism came to me in the mid 1990's, but to my relief the purpose of the visit was only to treat worms. I dutifully prescribed the medicine for pinworms and went on to my next patient. Later that afternoon I received a call from the autistic boy's mom who wanted to know what was that medicine I had given her son for pinworms....her boy was starting to make eye contact, show affection and communicate with his family. She said it was amazing! I told her I didn't really didn't know what was in the pinworm pill but immediately prescribed enough pills for her son to take everyday for a month (normally you only take one or two pills to treat pinworms).

I called up the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the pinworm pill and spoke to one of their technical staff. They told me the pill worked by blocking the transport of molecules of a certain size from crossing cell membranes, so in the case of the hapless pinworms they were unable to absorb the sugars they feed upon in the lower intestines of their victims.

What did that have to do with this boy's newly found improved behavior? Either one of two things were going on: 1) the drug was either blocking a molecule that shouldn't be passing across the gut to the blood and then the brain and that molecule was having a drug-like affect on the brain, or; 2) the drug was blocking a molecule that normally crossed from the gut into the blood but in certain children these molecules had a strange drug-like affect.

I made several calls across the country to find a researcher who might be interested in this serendipitous finding which could be an important clue into this disease, because no where had I found anything saying that the guts of these children were involved in their disease. Unfortunately, no one I talked to was interested.

Autism and the Human Gut Flora
by Dr. Max Bingham

Food Microbial Sciences Unit, Science and Technology Centre, Earley Gate, University of Reading, Whiteknights Road, Reading, Berkshire, UK. RG6 6BZ


Abstract

Previous research into autism has raised the possibility that a link exists between the disorder and the human gut microflora. Research has remained limited due to the unwillingness of the orthodox medical establishment to adopt treatments suggested by this research. This short review aims to summarise the research completed to date and evaluate the relevance of a link between autism and a possible imbalance in the human gut microflora. It appears that yeasts (Candida species in particular) and clostridia may play an important role in the development of autistic symptoms. It is suggested that the control of the growth of these species may reduce the severity of autistic symptoms but is unlikely to offer a cure.

Who was Saint Anthony?

Saint Anthony (c.251-356) of Egypt was a hermit and one of the earliest monks. He is considered the founder and father of organized Christian monasticism. His rule represented one of the first attempts to codify guidelines for monastic living.

Anthony began to practice an ascetic life at the age of 20 and after 15 years withdrew for absolute solitude to a mountain by the Nile called Pispir (now Dayr al-Maymun), where he lived from about 286 to 305. During the course of this retreat, he began his legendary combat against the devil, withstanding a series of temptations famous in Christian theology and iconography. In about 305 he emerged from his retreat to instruct and organize the monastic life of the hermits who imitated him and who had established themselves nearby. When Christian persecution ended after the Edict of Milan, he moved to a mountain in the Eastern Desert, between the Nile and the Red Sea, where the monastery Dayr Mari Antonios still stands. Here he remained, receiving visitors and, on occasion, crossing the desert to Pispir. He ventured twice to Alexandria, the last time (c. 350) to preach against Arianism, a heretical doctrine teaching that Christ the Son is not of the same substance as God the Father.