Dr Andrew Wakefield, the MMR vaccine and toxic chemicals
Jack Tennant | 25.08.2007 01:00 | Analysis | Health | Social Struggles | London | World
Many parents of vaccine injured children - regardless of which biological mechanism was involved in their children's vaccine-associated regression into autism - support the pioneering work of Andrew Wakefield and his right to pursue his scientific investigation without being persecuted.
In 1988 the controversial MMR vaccine was introduced to the UK. Ten years later Dr Andrew Wakefield published a hypothesis in the Lancet medical journal that provided clinical evidence for an association between the MMR vaccine, intestinal bowel disease and autism. He also suggested that some vulnerable children might be unable to handle being injected with the three-in-one MMR jab.
Since then Andrew Wakefield has steadfastly resisted enormous political and corporate pressure to stop him continuing investigating the potential biological mechanisms for vaccine-induced autistic enterocolitis, even though the number of children diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders is rocketing.
Some say Dr Wakefield’s tenacity has made those who have staked their reputations and careers on the safety of MMR determined to make an example out of him. I say Dr. Wakefield is being persecuted for taking a scientific position that does not conform to the rhetoric of the profit driven pharmaceutical industries.
Much has been said about the link between environmental chemical toxins such as mercury being a cofactor in the triggering of autism. Heavy metals such as mercury are poisonous toxins that can sensitize the brain and damage the immune system. Unsuspecting mothers can pass on mercury and other toxins onto their children via the placenta and through breastfeeding.
Most people don’t realise they are storing such poisonous toxins in their bodies but, nevertheless, it has been shown that it doesn’t matter who we are or where we live we are all contaminated with various amounts of many different chemical toxins - daily exposure to which is impossible to avoid due to our massive increase of chemical usage.
In November 2003 the WWF’s Chemicals and Health Campaign found highly toxic chemicals in every person tested in a UK-wide blood biomonitoring survey. Justin Woolford of the WWF said "The chemical industry is contaminating the nation and the government is rolling over and allowing it to continue".
Peer reviewed studies published in The Lancet in November 2006 said that commonly-used chemicals are causing a significant rise in developmental brain disorders. The researchers said;”The combined evidence suggests that neurodevelopmental disorders caused by industrial chemicals has created a silent pandemic”.
In light of these rather sobering scientific revelations, no-one could possibly guarantee with any credibility that our children do not have their immune system compromised by toxins and thus safe to receive the MMR vaccine - or indeed any other vaccine designed to stimulate an immune system response - without actually testing the individual child for their level of toxic contamination first.
Logically therefore, unless precautionary tests are given to individual children before they are offered such vaccines, it is perfectly reasonable to suggest that some children whose immune systems are significantly compromised by chemical toxins might, as Dr Wakefield suggested, be unable to handle being injected with the three-in-one MMR jab.
To read and sign the petition supporting Andrew Wakefield, M.D., go to
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/GMC/.
Since then Andrew Wakefield has steadfastly resisted enormous political and corporate pressure to stop him continuing investigating the potential biological mechanisms for vaccine-induced autistic enterocolitis, even though the number of children diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders is rocketing.
Some say Dr Wakefield’s tenacity has made those who have staked their reputations and careers on the safety of MMR determined to make an example out of him. I say Dr. Wakefield is being persecuted for taking a scientific position that does not conform to the rhetoric of the profit driven pharmaceutical industries.
Much has been said about the link between environmental chemical toxins such as mercury being a cofactor in the triggering of autism. Heavy metals such as mercury are poisonous toxins that can sensitize the brain and damage the immune system. Unsuspecting mothers can pass on mercury and other toxins onto their children via the placenta and through breastfeeding.
Most people don’t realise they are storing such poisonous toxins in their bodies but, nevertheless, it has been shown that it doesn’t matter who we are or where we live we are all contaminated with various amounts of many different chemical toxins - daily exposure to which is impossible to avoid due to our massive increase of chemical usage.
In November 2003 the WWF’s Chemicals and Health Campaign found highly toxic chemicals in every person tested in a UK-wide blood biomonitoring survey. Justin Woolford of the WWF said "The chemical industry is contaminating the nation and the government is rolling over and allowing it to continue".
Peer reviewed studies published in The Lancet in November 2006 said that commonly-used chemicals are causing a significant rise in developmental brain disorders. The researchers said;”The combined evidence suggests that neurodevelopmental disorders caused by industrial chemicals has created a silent pandemic”.
In light of these rather sobering scientific revelations, no-one could possibly guarantee with any credibility that our children do not have their immune system compromised by toxins and thus safe to receive the MMR vaccine - or indeed any other vaccine designed to stimulate an immune system response - without actually testing the individual child for their level of toxic contamination first.
Logically therefore, unless precautionary tests are given to individual children before they are offered such vaccines, it is perfectly reasonable to suggest that some children whose immune systems are significantly compromised by chemical toxins might, as Dr Wakefield suggested, be unable to handle being injected with the three-in-one MMR jab.
To read and sign the petition supporting Andrew Wakefield, M.D., go to
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/GMC/.
Jack Tennant
Additions
Wakefield is a danger to children
25.08.2007 11:46
Wakefield's original research found some traces of measles virus in the gut of 12 children with autism. That’s the measles virus, not MMR. No indication whether measles was from the vaccine or from infection. No indication that there is any causal link between autism and the measles virus.
If there was any significance in Wakefield's original results, they would have been confirmed by other studies. The opposite is true.
* Research simply doesn’t show a relative increase in autism among children who have had MMR in comparison with children who have not had MMR.
* In Japan, they stopped giving MMR triple jabs and gave single jabs instead and rates of autism continued to rise there
* After the MMR story broke and use of the vaccine went down, the rate of autism in kids born after that date rose.
When your theory isn't confirmed (or is in fact contradicted) by further investigations, it is wrong.
Wakefield is a quack, a danger to children and nobody should support him or his private clinic. He has not been persecuted. He's turned one flawed study into a career and contributed to the return of measles in the UK.
If people don't want to engage with the science, consider this: Wakefield engages in the sort of practices that discredit other science. Undisclosed financial links (as a legal advisor and now head of his own private clinic), suppressing alternative explanations and stretching his data to unsupported conclusions.
A good source for the science and media spin aorund MMR:
http://www.badscience.net/?cat=21
especially:
http://www.badscience.net/?p=23#more-23
If there was any significance in Wakefield's original results, they would have been confirmed by other studies. The opposite is true.
* Research simply doesn’t show a relative increase in autism among children who have had MMR in comparison with children who have not had MMR.
* In Japan, they stopped giving MMR triple jabs and gave single jabs instead and rates of autism continued to rise there
* After the MMR story broke and use of the vaccine went down, the rate of autism in kids born after that date rose.
When your theory isn't confirmed (or is in fact contradicted) by further investigations, it is wrong.
Wakefield is a quack, a danger to children and nobody should support him or his private clinic. He has not been persecuted. He's turned one flawed study into a career and contributed to the return of measles in the UK.
If people don't want to engage with the science, consider this: Wakefield engages in the sort of practices that discredit other science. Undisclosed financial links (as a legal advisor and now head of his own private clinic), suppressing alternative explanations and stretching his data to unsupported conclusions.
A good source for the science and media spin aorund MMR:
http://www.badscience.net/?cat=21 especially:
http://www.badscience.net/?p=23#more-23
Dr Who
MMR, the final straw…
25.08.2007 15:51
Any biological assault from one or more environmental stressor would be capable of triggering developmental disorders such as autism in young children.
The triple live virus vaccines such as the DPT and MMR jabs are just one type of environmental stressor, albeit a highly significant stressor when combined a pre-existing compromised immune system.
Biological assaults from one or more environmental stressor in older children or adults would be far more likely to result in conditions such as Transverse Myelitis (Acute Encephalomyelitis), Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Guillian Barre Syndrome.
The triple live virus vaccines such as the DPT and MMR jabs are just one type of environmental stressor, albeit a highly significant stressor when combined a pre-existing compromised immune system.
Biological assaults from one or more environmental stressor in older children or adults would be far more likely to result in conditions such as Transverse Myelitis (Acute Encephalomyelitis), Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Guillian Barre Syndrome.
Dr Doomuch
Homepage:
http://www.whale.to/v/mmr567.html
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