So It Seems the Anti-Vax Crowd

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really does think they can infect you in the name of Freedom.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/anti-...g-liberty/

Anti-vaxxer radio host accuses Jon Stewart of being a vaccine ‘Nazi’ for opposing ‘healing liberty’

Maniacs.

Is it me or are people objecting to something for the sake of objecting to it?

The reason the former doctor responsible for this rubbish has popped up in the US is because he moved from Britain because he could no longer practice medicine on account of him being struck-off.


Between July 2007 and May 2010, a 217-day "fitness to practise" hearing of the UK General Medical Council examined charges of professional misconduct against Wakefield and two colleagues involved in the paper in The Lancet. The charges included that he:

"Was being paid to conduct the study by solicitors representing parents who believed their children had been harmed by MMR".

Ordered investigations "without the requisite paediatric qualifications" including colonoscopies, colon biopsies and lumbar punctures ("spinal taps") on his research subjects without the approval of his department's ethics board and contrary to the children's clinical interests, when these diagnostic tests were not indicated by the children's symptoms or medical history.

"Act[ed] 'dishonestly and irresponsibly' in failing to disclose ... how patients were recruited for the study".

"Conduct[ed] the study on a basis not approved by the hospital's ethics committee."

Purchased blood samples—for £5 each—from children present at his son's birthday party, which Wakefield joked about in a later presentation.

Wakefield denied the charges; on 28 January 2010, the GMC ruled against Wakefield on all issues, stating that he had "failed in his duties as a responsible consultant", acted against the interests of his patients, and "dishonestly and irresponsibly" in his controversial research. On 24 May 2010 he was struck off the United Kingdom medical register. It was the harshest sanction that the GMC could impose, and effectively ended his career as a doctor. In announcing the ruling, the GMC said that Wakefield had "brought the medical profession into disrepute," and no sanction short of erasing his name from the register was appropriate for the "serious and wide-ranging findings" of misconduct. On the same day, Wakefield's autobiography, Callous Disregard was published. It argued that he had been unfairly treated by the medical and scientific establishment.

The British Medical Journal, The Lancet, in which Wakefield's papers were first published have said the paper was "utterly false" and that the journal had been "deceived".[

This man has caused completely unnecessary panic and distress to millions of parents, he has been the root cause of many unnecessary deaths from diseases we can vaccinate against.

This is not about choice it is about ignorance, and on a grand scale.

Andrew Wakefield is a self-serving egotist who clearly did not consider the wide ranging implications of his 'false' paper and has sewed seeds of doubt in the minds of millions of parents for no reason whatsoever other than his own ends. If ever I want to look for definitions of evil then this man is certainly on my radar.

This is not about choice, it's about easily preventable diseases that cause the unnecessary suffering and death of children who have put their trust in parents who's 'principles of choice' have become more important than their duty as parents.

On one hand we have the medical profession saying that the research and scientific evidence does not show any good reason not to give these vaccine's to a child and on the other a group of people who's ideology is more important to them than getting better informed about the facts of these issues, and who are determined to drive that ideology home regardless of those facts and of the damage the may be causing not only their children but other children who live and play around them.

Who sounds more like 'Nazis' to you?

MM