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Autism-Vax Doc Scandal Was Pharma Business Scam
Sockatume writes "In his second report, Brian Deer exposes how MMR-autism prophet Andrew Wakefield aimed to profit from the vaccine scare. Two years before the research that 'discovered' the MMR-autism link, Wakefield began courting interest in a hundred-million-dollar diagnostics firm. The doctor hoped to seed the company with government legal aid money and profit by charging 'premium prices' for new diagnostic tests to be used in vaccine injury lawsuits. By the time Wakefield published, the proposals had expanded into producing new 'safe' vaccines, two businesses to gather legal aid funding, and interest from partners including Wakefield's own hospital. The scheme ultimately disintegrated with the arrival of new leadership at Wakefield's hospital and ongoing scrutiny into his research."
Now, I know RISC is cool these days and the VAX was pretty much the embodiment of CISC, but calling it autistic is a bit uncalled for.
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...I don't think that's egg.
"You know what I can't figure out? How is it that all these stupid neanderthal mafia guys can be so good at crime, and smart guys like us can suck so badly at it."
If there were a God of Justice, Wakefield would be felled by polio and end up in an iron lung.
And if there were a God of Irony, a study would be published that conclusively demonstrated that autism is caused by breast implants.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
Famously, Jenny McCarthy went on Oprah and told parents not to vaccinate their kids. Many doctors and parents LISTENED!
On the upside, this could (over time) increase "herd immunity" (via adverse selection) to the garbage that falls out of Oprah's cunt-mouth, so that's a bonus.
Did you ever give him steamed carrots? Like, the baby food with carrots in it? Or did you ever cook and mash up your own carrots? Or did your wife ever eat carrots and breastfeed your son? I don't want to cause undue alarm, but you need to search the web TODAY about carrots and developmental abnormalities. Seriously. Do it, and be careful with carrots until your child is at least in its teens.
I'm sorry to hear about your son.
I'm a Doctor (Doctor of Chiropractic). Please get your son in to a Chiropractor for immediate adjustments which can allow the nervous system to heal. If it hasn't been too long, the toxins in vaccines can be removed by chelation therapy. As a Chiropractor, I'm not allowed to make prescriptions but can recommend such treatments.
Remember:
- Proper Nutrition
- Exercise
- Regular Chiropractic treatment
- Don't visit MDs, they are quacks.
Good luck!
His child is an "it" now? More importantly, it isn't carrots, it's garnets... pesky gems available widely in January. I highly recommend anyone who has to live through a January avoid people born in that month. Garnets are dangerous -- bad combination of minerals and color. Speaking of dangers, we should also note that peas are dangerous too... especially when attached to a pin and stuck into a large Starbucks straw.
Its worse than that! There are an uncountably infinite number of values between 0 and 1!
Only if you are irrational.
Shhhhht, that is what I want *them* to believe. ;)