really, brandeis?

[fraterrisus]

Andrew Wakefield is speaking at Brandeis tonight.

(ETA: Wakefield is the de-certified British doctor who published the fraudulent articles linking vaccines to autism

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[crs]

Where's Westboro Baptist when you need them?

[melebeth]

*incoherent rage* I thought better of that school.

[blk]

GRAWR.

[dancingwolfgrrl]

So my trivial research into this indicates that the group that brought him to campus is an undergraduate autism-awareness group called Spectrum. You will note the talk's absence from the publicity office's events list, although it is listed on the student events calendar.

In Brandeis's defense, free speech and all. I dislike the idea of this guy using the university as a credential, but if students want him, I'm pretty much of the mind that it's better to let him come than to refuse to do so and generate even more publicity and rhetoric for his "the establishment is oppressing me" campaign.

[mickeysacks]

This guy makes me SO angry. My brother has two kids, both on the autism spectrum (one has mild asbergers and the other is fairly severely autistic) and his wife was quite firmly convinced that vaccines were to blame. Every time something came out in the press debunking him there would be another discussion about it but it took YEARS to convince her to stop believing the lie and let go of the anger at the health care system and doctors that "did this" to her children.

I hope the group that brought him to campus has at least one sane person who will stand up and challenge him and take him to task for making the incredibly difficult task of being a parent of a child with any form of autism even more stressful. Not to mention being to blame for some of the recent outbreaks of easily preventable diseases.