Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys

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Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys

A statement from McCarthy and Jim Carrey

Los Angeles, February 5, 2010

Dr. Wakefield is 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.

It is our most sincere belief 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 from The Lancet 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 strenuously denies all the findings of the GMC

and plans a vigorous appeal.

Despite rampant misreporting, Dr. Wakefield's original paper

regarding 12 children with severe bowel disease and autism never

rendered any judgment whatsoever on whether or not vaccines cause

autism, and The Lancet's retraction gets us no closer to

understanding this complex issue.

Dr. Wakefield is one of the world's most respected and well-published

gastroenterologists. He has published dozens of papers since 1998 in

well-regarded peer-reviewed journals all over the world. His work

documenting the bowel disease of children with autism and his

exploration of novel ways to treat bowel disease has helped relieve

the pain and suffering of thousands of children with autism.

For the past decade, parents in our community have been clamoring for

a relatively simple scientific study that could settle the debate

over the possible role of vaccines in the autism epidemic once and

for all: compare children who have been vaccinated with children who

have never received any vaccines and see if the rate of autism is

different or the same.

Few people are aware that this extremely important work has not only

begun, but that a study using an animal model has already been

completed exploring this topic in great detail.

Dr. Wakefield is the co-author, along with eight other distinguished

scientists from institutions like the University of Pittsburgh, the

University of Kentucky, and the University of Washington, of a set of

studies that explore the topic of vaccinated versus unvaccinated

neurological outcomes using monkeys.

The first phase of this monkey study was published three months ago

in the prestigious medical journal Neurotoxicology, and focused on

the first two weeks of life when the vaccinated monkeys received a

single vaccine for Hepatitis B, mimicking the U.S. vaccine schedule.

The results, which you can read for yourself HERE, were disturbing.

Vaccinated monkeys, unlike their unvaccinated peers, suffered the

loss of many reflexes that are critical for survival.

Dr. Wakefield and his scientific colleagues are on the brink of

publishing their entire study, which followed the monkeys through the

U.S. childhood vaccine schedule over a multi-year period. It is our

understanding that the difference in outcome for the vaccinated

monkeys versus the unvaccinated controls is both stark and devastating.

There is no question that the publication of the monkey study will

lend substantial credibility to the theory that over-vaccination of

young children is leading to neurological damage, including autism.

The fallout from the study for vaccine makers and public health

officials could be severe. Having denied the possibility of the

vaccine-autism connection for so long while profiting immensely from

a recent boom in vaccine sales around the world, it's no surprise

that they would seek to repress this important work.

Behind the scenes, the pressure to keep the work of Dr. Wakefield and

his colleagues from being published is immense, and growing every

day. Medical journals take extreme risk of backlash in publishing any

studies that question the safety of the vaccination program, no

matter how well-designed and thorough the research might be.

Neurotoxicology, a highly-respected medical journal, deserves great

credit for courageously publishing the first phase of this vaccinated

monkey study.

The press has been deeply misled in the way The Lancet retraction,

and Dr. Wakefield's mock trial, have been characterized. Led by the

pharmaceutical companies and their well-compensated spokespeople, Dr.

Wakefield is being vilified through a well-orchestrated smear

campaign designed to prevent this important new work from seeing the

light of day.

What medical journal would want to step in front of this freight

train? Moreover, why now, after 12 years of inaction, did The Lancet

and GMC suddenly act? Is it coincidence that the monkey study is

currently being submitted to medical journals for review and publication?

We urge the media to take a close look at the first phase of the

monkey study discussed above and to start asking a very simple

question: What was the final outcome of the 14 primates that were

vaccinated using the U.S. vaccine schedule and how did that compare

to the unvaccinated controls?

The U.S. vaccine schedule has grown from 10 vaccines given to our

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.

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines - http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy Online/email

courses - next classes start February 24 & 25

http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccineclass.htm or

http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm

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share this far and wide

please read carefully

http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/02/a-statement-from-jenny-mccarthy-jim-carrey-an\

drew-wakefield-scientific-censorship-and-fourteen-monke.html

Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys

A statement from McCarthy and Jim Carrey

Los Angeles, February 5, 2010

Dr. Wakefield is 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.

It is our most sincere belief 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 from The Lancet 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 strenuously denies all the findings of the GMC

and plans a vigorous appeal.

Despite rampant misreporting, Dr. Wakefield's original paper

regarding 12 children with severe bowel disease and autism never

rendered any judgment whatsoever on whether or not vaccines cause

autism, and The Lancet's retraction gets us no closer to

understanding this complex issue.

Dr. Wakefield is one of the world's most respected and well-published

gastroenterologists. He has published dozens of papers since 1998 in

well-regarded peer-reviewed journals all over the world. His work

documenting the bowel disease of children with autism and his

exploration of novel ways to treat bowel disease has helped relieve

the pain and suffering of thousands of children with autism.

For the past decade, parents in our community have been clamoring for

a relatively simple scientific study that could settle the debate

over the possible role of vaccines in the autism epidemic once and

for all: compare children who have been vaccinated with children who

have never received any vaccines and see if the rate of autism is

different or the same.

Few people are aware that this extremely important work has not only

begun, but that a study using an animal model has already been

completed exploring this topic in great detail.

Dr. Wakefield is the co-author, along with eight other distinguished

scientists from institutions like the University of Pittsburgh, the

University of Kentucky, and the University of Washington, of a set of

studies that explore the topic of vaccinated versus unvaccinated

neurological outcomes using monkeys.

The first phase of this monkey study was published three months ago

in the prestigious medical journal Neurotoxicology, and focused on

the first two weeks of life when the vaccinated monkeys received a

single vaccine for Hepatitis B, mimicking the U.S. vaccine schedule.

The results, which you can read for yourself HERE, were disturbing.

Vaccinated monkeys, unlike their unvaccinated peers, suffered the

loss of many reflexes that are critical for survival.

Dr. Wakefield and his scientific colleagues are on the brink of

publishing their entire study, which followed the monkeys through the

U.S. childhood vaccine schedule over a multi-year period. It is our

understanding that the difference in outcome for the vaccinated

monkeys versus the unvaccinated controls is both stark and devastating.

There is no question that the publication of the monkey study will

lend substantial credibility to the theory that over-vaccination of

young children is leading to neurological damage, including autism.

The fallout from the study for vaccine makers and public health

officials could be severe. Having denied the possibility of the

vaccine-autism connection for so long while profiting immensely from

a recent boom in vaccine sales around the world, it's no surprise

that they would seek to repress this important work.

Behind the scenes, the pressure to keep the work of Dr. Wakefield and

his colleagues from being published is immense, and growing every

day. Medical journals take extreme risk of backlash in publishing any

studies that question the safety of the vaccination program, no

matter how well-designed and thorough the research might be.

Neurotoxicology, a highly-respected medical journal, deserves great

credit for courageously publishing the first phase of this vaccinated

monkey study.

The press has been deeply misled in the way The Lancet retraction,

and Dr. Wakefield's mock trial, have been characterized. Led by the

pharmaceutical companies and their well-compensated spokespeople, Dr.

Wakefield is being vilified through a well-orchestrated smear

campaign designed to prevent this important new work from seeing the

light of day.

What medical journal would want to step in front of this freight

train? Moreover, why now, after 12 years of inaction, did The Lancet

and GMC suddenly act? Is it coincidence that the monkey study is

currently being submitted to medical journals for review and publication?

We urge the media to take a close look at the first phase of the

monkey study discussed above and to start asking a very simple

question: What was the final outcome of the 14 primates that were

vaccinated using the U.S. vaccine schedule and how did that compare

to the unvaccinated controls?

The U.S. vaccine schedule has grown from 10 vaccines given to our

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.

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines - http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy Online/email

courses - next classes start February 24 & 25

http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccineclass.htm or

http://www.wellwithin1.com/homeo.htm