Posted on 01/08/2011 4:02:53 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
On Wednesday, the British Journal of Medicine published the first of several articles detailing the systematic fraud Andrew Wakefield engaged in writing a study in 1998 claiming measles-mumps-rubella vaccine triggered autism in 12 children. News outlets have posted accounts of the fraud as 'breaking news." They also note Wakefield's false research led to fear of vaccines and to kids dying from lack of shots.
Wakefield's fraud is beside the point. He was able to do so much damage for so long because the media, the scientific community, politicians and trial lawyers found it in their interest to believe and lionize him. We ate our young. Wakefield just gave us the recipe.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
The CRU must have envied Dr. Wakefield.
Where’s Al Gore and Linthy Gwam ( Lindsey Graham )? Something stupid got by them?
Why statistical significance must live.
Proof by press release is right in their wheelhouse.
I think the writer was thinking about somebody else here....BO
You can say the same thing about any number of popular panic mongers. The press is complicit because they are scientific illiterates and unprincipled. A lot of clever people don’t have the good sense to know what they do not know.
I have a autistic son yet the very first time I ever heard the name Andrew Wakefield was on C-SPAN when he was in front of Dan Burton's committee.
That was when the man's credibility took off.
I actually am a Board Certified School Nurse who substitutes at times in a public school devoted solely autistic children, so I am probably ineligible to comment any further.
But, I sincerely appreciate your posting this article. Anyway, it's not that old-- Fox & Friends had the story earlier this morning.
...a public school devoted solely to autistic children...
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