Science! With regards the recent pro-vaccination reputation trashing of Dr Wakefield-
and all the rampant bluster of the pro-vaccination movement crying 'foul! see, vaccinations ARE good for you!'
Because, hey, let's not let *facts* get in the way of a good rabble rousing.
Dr Wakefield's initial study (the one recently being pulled by The Lancet) http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/wakefield2.pdf . Which utterly fails to render *any judgement whatsoever* on whether or not vaccines cause autism. But hey, who cares? Facts don't matter, right? Let's not get into all that pesky 'what's actually here' stuff. Oh, and just so we're clear, Dr Wakefield is planning on *vigorously* defending both his reputation and his research against the GMC ruling. Which would be professional suicide if he was really actually *guilty*, given that the vaccination companies have a vested interest in smearing his reputation and his studies and will be helping fund the opposition. Which, unsurprisingly, they already are, because of research like this:
The scientific study on neurotoxicology that triggered the storm of activity to discredit Dr Wakefield, in which links were *suggested* between vaccination and developmental issues in young primates- http://fourteenstudies.org/pdf/primates_hep_b.pdf
It's not hippy flaky health nut 'crap', it's the actual scientific paper which you can read for yourself and- *gasp*- draw your OWN conclusions. You mean, actual information that *isn't* being fed to us by the mainstream media???? Say it isn't so!!
Gee. Now, just like the recent Copenhagen 'Climate Gate!! They're all lying to us! It's just a bunch of scientists conspiring to stop our economic development!!' debacle, which hijacked the entire proceedings and then- oops! who knew!- turned out to be a load of old cobblers, isn't it a tad curious that a smear campaign against a distinguished and much respected researcher happens just before he's about to release a co-jointly authored paper that raises the possibility that vaccinations are causing neurological problems in neonatal primates?
Oh, wait, that's right- that makes me a conspiracy theorist rather than a curious observer. Well, pickle me, where does that put all that science, I wonder...
*This post was brought to you today by the Yes I'm Aware of My Level of Sarcasm and the number Eleventyseven.*
Because, hey, let's not let *facts* get in the way of a good rabble rousing.
Dr Wakefield's initial study (the one recently being pulled by The Lancet) http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/wakefield2.pdf . Which utterly fails to render *any judgement whatsoever* on whether or not vaccines cause autism. But hey, who cares? Facts don't matter, right? Let's not get into all that pesky 'what's actually here' stuff. Oh, and just so we're clear, Dr Wakefield is planning on *vigorously* defending both his reputation and his research against the GMC ruling. Which would be professional suicide if he was really actually *guilty*, given that the vaccination companies have a vested interest in smearing his reputation and his studies and will be helping fund the opposition. Which, unsurprisingly, they already are, because of research like this:
The scientific study on neurotoxicology that triggered the storm of activity to discredit Dr Wakefield, in which links were *suggested* between vaccination and developmental issues in young primates- http://fourteenstudies.org/pdf/primates_hep_b.pdf
It's not hippy flaky health nut 'crap', it's the actual scientific paper which you can read for yourself and- *gasp*- draw your OWN conclusions. You mean, actual information that *isn't* being fed to us by the mainstream media???? Say it isn't so!!
Gee. Now, just like the recent Copenhagen 'Climate Gate!! They're all lying to us! It's just a bunch of scientists conspiring to stop our economic development!!' debacle, which hijacked the entire proceedings and then- oops! who knew!- turned out to be a load of old cobblers, isn't it a tad curious that a smear campaign against a distinguished and much respected researcher happens just before he's about to release a co-jointly authored paper that raises the possibility that vaccinations are causing neurological problems in neonatal primates?
Oh, wait, that's right- that makes me a conspiracy theorist rather than a curious observer. Well, pickle me, where does that put all that science, I wonder...
*This post was brought to you today by the Yes I'm Aware of My Level of Sarcasm and the number Eleventyseven.*