Autism Link Doctor Loses License

[LuciferSam]

Andrew Wakefield case highlights the importance of ethics in science | Society | guardian.co.uk

Effectively, Wakefield used children who were showing signs of autism as guinea pigs, subjecting them to invasive and unpleasant procedures including lumbar punctures and colonoscopies that they did not need. He misled the ethics committee at the Royal Free, the Lancet and the MRC, claiming these were children who had been referred for treatment that they needed in the normal way.

It did not transpire until much later that he also had financial interests in the outcome of this research. He had taken money to prepare evidence for solicitors who hoped to bring cases against vaccine manufacturers, alleging MMR triggered autism in children. He also lodged a patent for a new vaccine against measles called Transfer Factor, which he claimed could also be a treatment for inflammatory bowel disease.

 

[Mango]

What they don't mention in the article is how many cases that were settled out of court by vaccine companies. :roll:

Not just in autism, but the politics behind many diseases are enough to make people scratch their heads and ask how do people get away with shutting down doctors who are advocates for the disabled; the ones who go up and beyond the call of duty. Who've brought light to inflictions like Aspergers and Autism, doctors who treat with extended antibiotics for Lyme Disease above IDSA guidelines who are saving lives? Then when the IDSA is investigated for conflicts of interest, they manage to get away with murder? Freaking amazing. Then to do a witch hunt and make it look like finances were driving factors??? Truly sickens me that good, well meaning scientists and physicians are forced out and the truth possibly muzzled.

 

[LuciferSam]

What they don't mention in the article is how many cases that were settled out of court by vaccine companies. :roll:

Not just in autism, but the politics behind many diseases are enough to make people scratch their heads and ask how do people get away with shutting down doctors who are advocates for the disabled; the ones who go up and beyond the call of duty. Who've brought light to inflictions like Aspergers and Autism, doctors who treat with extended antibiotics for Lyme Disease above IDSA guidelines who are saving lives? Then when the IDSA is investigated for conflicts of interest, they manage to get away with murder? Freaking amazing. Then to do a witch hunt and make it look like finances were driving factors??? Truly sickens me that good, well meaning scientists and physicians are forced out and the truth possibly muzzled.

Looks like he'll have to start experimenting on animals now that his kiddie supply has run out.

 

[scooterbug44]

I'd probably start "displaying signs of autism" too if people were giving me unnecessary colonoscopies and lumbar punctures! :angry:

There is a great deal of uncertainty about illness and many conflicts of interest in the medical/pharm world, but once you start paying little kids to give you samples of their blood at a birthday party and giving patients a new vaccine without telling their primary physician you have most definitely crossed a line and need to be struck off.

 

[LuciferSam]

It's his practices that got him into trouble, not his questionable science. No witch hunt here. Does he or anyone else dispute the claim that he was experimenting on children?