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Andrew Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys
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admin on 02/13/2010 18:53:00
 
Posted by: Dr. Mercola
February 12 2010
A statement from Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey argues that Dr. Andrew Wakefield
is currently being discredited to prevent an historic study from being published
that for the first time looks at vaccinated versus unvaccinated primates and
compares health outcomes -- with potentially devastating consequences for
vaccine makers and public health officials.
They state that Dr. Wakefield and parents of children with autism around the
world are being subjected to a remarkable media campaign, engineered by vaccine
manufacturers, reporting on the retraction of a paper published in The Lancet in
1998 by Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues.  The retraction was a response to a
ruling from England’s General Medical Council, a kangaroo court where public
health officials in the pocket of vaccine makers served as judge and jury.
Dr. Wakefield is the co-author, along with eight other distinguished scientists,
of a new set of studies that explore the topic of vaccinated versus unvaccinated
neurological outcomes using monkeys. The results were disturbing -- vaccinated
monkeys, unlike their unvaccinated peers, suffered the loss of many reflexes
that are critical for survival.
Behind the scenes, the pressure to keep the work of Dr. Wakefield and his
colleagues from being published is immense, and growing every day. Dr. Wakefield
is being vilified through a well-orchestrated smear campaign designed to prevent
this important new work from seeing the light of day.
The U.S. vaccine schedule has grown from 10 vaccines given to children in the
1980s to 36 today, perfectly matching the dramatic rise in autism. The work of
Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues deserves to be shared with the world to
further, rather than censor, scientific progress.
Sources:
Age of Autism February 11, 2010