CNN Official Interview: Author of autism study, Andrew Wakefield questioned

[johnnytabaiee]

ALL YOU GOD DAMN REPORTERS ON ON THE TAKE GO F&*%K YOURSELF!

[promiseIsaih60]

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[shakaama]

It is amazing how many couch doctors we have in America. We're fed a steady diet of misinformation, called the news, and we bring on doctors, like this, that the interviewer attacks, because they're told to. The fact is Dr. Andrew Wakefield is not alone, by far, in his study of the link between autism and vaccines. Court case after court case, which you all don't pay attention to, shows clear evidence of the link. The vaccines, are system wide contaminated with xmrv retrovirus.

[shakaama]

who titled this video? he has a title Dr. Andrew Wakefield. cnn

[alltheworldsastage]

Wakefield should be prosecuted. 

[tiptoe221]

It's always all about the money with these 'doctors'. He's done a lot of damage.

[t3traacyl]

@AfroPlato

Another easy way to find these articles is to search for "Andrew Wakefield" or MMR vaccine controversy" in wikipedia. The wikipedia article is extremely well cited and goes through much of wakefield's fraud and the resulting problems.

[t3traacyl]

@AfroPlato

Youtube won't let me post links so I'll have to explain where to find stuff.

5) For an editorial on Deer's article enter "Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent".

Please note that while Deer is not a scientist, that these are peer reviewed (checked by scientists and doctors), published articles.

[t3traacyl]

@AfroPlato

Youtube won't let me post links so I'll have to explain where to find stuff.

1) Go to Google scholar

2) For the original Wakefield study enter "wakefield 1998 lancet".

3) For the full BMJ article by Deer that reports the discrepancies enter "How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed".

4) A table summarizes the differences in the Deer report under the heading "Case selection".

[AfroPlato]

Why isn't CNN bringing in the parents via Skype to better elucidate what's going on, here... I'm hearing, "he say, she say." Bring in the primary sources who live with the children who have these ailments along with the doctor's made the diagnosis of bowel syndrome and autism.

[AfroPlato]

@AfroPlato doctor's who made the diagnosis of bowel syndrome and autism.

[Sausahga]

@freemanbrook No, it's not the case but I can see it being used as a strategy to make it your PR if you were the industry. Who'd be better as an opponent than one you chose for your own benefit? (If a boxer could choose all his adversaries who would he choose but those he knew he could set up for a fall?)

[sleepcity]

It has been apparent for years now that Andrew Wakefield is a fraud. What is most unfortunate is that his disingenuous study caught on like wildfire amongst uneducated parents of autistic children. Wakefield's bogus work took only days to assemble but the damage done to the reputation of life-saving vaccines will take years to undo. Good riddance to a medical fraud finally being (formally) acknowledged as such.

[t3traacyl]

@guitarfreek His paper does attempt to establish a link of some sort. However, it turns out the original medical records were different. Wakefield changed things. The other people on the study have long since retracted their names and support.

Finally, Wakefield's press release recommended single vaccines - which were/are not commonly available since many safe formulations of the MMR have been used for many years. So scared parents just avoided vaccinating entirely and later kids died.

[AfroPlato]

@t3traacyl Could you send me the articles/documents that support what you are saying here? Thanks.

AP

[guitarfreek1]

@freemanbrook

but he was linking autism to bowel symptoms, have you even read his paper produced in the lancet? and there were more people involved than just him. he also never said to stop taking vaccinces, he jsut said the MMR shouldnt be 3-in 1, and that it is too powerful to be taken at once. he said to spread it out

[GodlessInfinity]

I wish CNN would stop giving these people a platform to spread their pseudoscience. Some of the autisms vaccines are blamed for are genetic and show up in families, others could be caused by any number of things we live in a far more polluted environment than we used to because in the United States our industries are seriously under regulated and basically just police themselves, but these vaccines are global and they're safe, and anti-vaccers are bringing back diseases we had under control.

[threadysparrow]

@freemanbrook yeah but... they are all part of the conspiracy... everyone who disagrees with wakefield is an agent

[splitecho]

There is bullshit on both sides as always. And thanks to big pharma and CNN, we're watching this as news.

[Sausahga]

@splitecho It would be especially tragic if Wakefield was right but for all the wrong reasons and driven by dubious motives. No one could cover up fraudulence better than one who is fraudulent. If "Big Pharma" wanted to be the *default* "winners" in cases like this it's a wise move to make use of someone who is an easily disproved incompetent. What better "shill" could one possibly hope for?

[TheKarlnator]

What vaccines are they even talking about?

[guitarfreek1]

@TheKarlnator

MMR vaccine, its a measels mumps and rubella vaccine. Wakefield said not to take them all at once but to spread them out, lots of parents stopped giving vaccine to their kids... many people did not read his study and dont know the purpose of the study/what it said, and are making assumptions with the wrong arguments

[tylerluvsallie]

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[Eball06]

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