“anti-science loons won’t vaccinate”
Here is an excerpt from the writings of “anti-science loon” Dr. Hugh Fudenberg on the subject of vaccinations (link included):
http://www.drfimreite.com/flushots.htm
“...According to Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, one of the world’s leading immunogeneticists/immunologists, winner of numerous honors with over 850 papers in peer reviewed journals, 5 consecutive flu shots increase your chance of developing Alzheimer’s Disease by 10 times! Dr. Fudenberg says the mercury and aluminum in flu (and many childhood) vaccines damage the brain. Is this why Alzheimer’s is expected to quadruple? Dr. Fudenberg’s comments are from his speech at the NVIC International Vaccine Conference, Arlington, VA, September 1997. Alzheimer’s to quadruple statement is from the John’s Hopkins Newsletter of November 1998. (2002 Archives of Neurology, DA Evans MD, states 4.6 million have Alzheimer’s and that number is expected to be 16 million by 2050!) Dr Hugh Fudenberg, MD Hazards of Vaccines 1 & 2 in Internat. J. Clin. Invest., 2000 & 2004. Bio and achievements are at: http://www.nitrf.org/fudenberg.html...";
What a loon! Only 850 papers in peer reviewed journals!
And the best the finding in the autism case could come up with was "most likely caused". Sure to be over-turned since all the exhaustive medical trials have shown no connection between the vaccinations and autism.
I suggest you look up the case of the sperm donor whose sperm managed to produce 15 autistic children from 10 different women before the problem was detected. Those mothers would have something to say about vaccinations.
Fudenberg is an absolute travesty of a "doctor" -- "it turns out that Hugh Fudenberg was a collaborator and co-inventor with Andrew Wakefield, the scientist who published an absolutely horribly designed study in the Lancet in 1998 linking the MMR vaccine to autism, nearly all of whose authors later publicly retracted their authorship. This study, now thoroughly repudiated, caused a major scare in Britain and elsewhere regarding MMR, echoes of which persist even today, with anti-vaxers still citing Wakefield's Lancet study as "evidence" that MMR causes autism. (Particularly hilarious is when they attribute MMR "causing" autism to the mercury in thimerosal, mainly because MMR has never contained thimerosal.) Dr. Fudenberg also happens to have been involved in some very dubious "treatments" for autism that led to some problems with his medical license. In November 1995, the South Carolina Medical Board concluded that Fudenberg was "guilty of engaging in dishonorable, unethical, or unprofessional conduct," and he was fined $10,000 and ordered to surrender his license to prescribe controlled substances (narcotic drugs). His medical license was also placed on suspension. In March 1996, he was permitted to resume practice under terms of probation that did not permit him to prescribe any drugs. His medical license expired in January 2004; and in March 2004, he applied to have it reinstated. However, after a hearing in which the Board considered a neuropsychatric report issued in 2003, Fudenberg agreed to remain in a "retired" status and withdrew his application for reactivation of his license. Nowadays, Dr. Fudenberg runs a nonprofit "research" organization called Neuro Immunotherapeutics Research Foundation and still appears to be pushing dubious remedies for autism. He also charges $750 per hour for "review of past medical records," $750 per hour for "determining what new tests need to be ordered; ordering of new tests; evaluation of new tests," and $750 per hour for "determining which therapy will work and which will not; discussing this with patient along with an in-depth study of past medical history to determine what makes a patient better or worse." **
I have a problem with people who would martyr their own children -- and MURDER someone else's -- through anti-science idiocy.
**Source: http://oracknows.blogspot.com/2005/12/bill-maher-anti-vax-wingnut.html