Dr. Andy Wakefield
Lies
Deer, Brian
Documents emerge proving Dr Andrew Wakefield innocent; BMJ
and Brian Deer caught misrepresenting the facts
(NaturalNews) New documents have emerged that clear Dr Andrew Wakefield of the
allegations of fraud recently made by the British Medical Journal and its
reporter Brian Deer. This new evidence "completely negates the allegations that
I committed scientific
fraud. Brian Deer and Dr. Godlee of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) knew or
should
have known about the facts set out below before publishing their false
allegations," says Dr Andrew Wakefield (see sources, below).
Newly-revealed documents show that on December 20th, 1996, a meeting of The
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group based at the Royal Free Hospital
Medical School featured a presentation by Professor Walker-Smith on seven of
the children who would later become part of the group of patients Dr Wakefield
wrote about in his 1998 The Lancet paper (which was later retracted by
The Lancet).
Remember, Dr Wakefield has been accused of completely fabricating his findings
about these same children in his 1998 paper, but these documents reveal that
fourteen months before Dr Wakefield's paper was published, two other researchers
-- Professor Walker-Smith and Dr Amar Dhillon -- independently documented the
same problems in these children, including symptoms of autism.
Thus, Dr Wakefield could not have "fabricated" these findings as alleged by the
British Medical Journal, which now finds itself in the position of needing to
issue a retraction, or it must now expand its accusations of fraud to include
Professor Walker-Smith and Dr Dhillon... essentially, the BMJ must now insist
that a "conspiracy of fraud" existed among at least these three researchers, and
possibly more, in order to back up its allegation that Dr Wakefield's study
results were fabricated.The smoking-gun evidence
Professor Walker-Smith's 1996 presentation at the Royal Free Hospital Medical
School was entitled, "Entero-colitis and Disintegrative Disorder Following
MMR - A Review of the First Seven Cases."
His presentation notes began with the following text: "“I wish today, to present
some preliminary details concerning seven children, all boys, who appear to have
entero-colitis and disintegrative disorder, probably autism, following MMR. I
shall now briefly present
their case history [sic]."
He then went on to detail the clinical history of these seven children as
derived from his medical team as well as senior pathologist Dr Amar Dhillon.
Importantly, Dr Andrew Wakefield was not part of this investigation. This means
that Dr Wakefield's findings were independently replicated by another
medical research team.
The British Medical Journal's accusations against Dr Wakefield -- that he
fabricated his findings -- are therefore false. The mainstream media accusation
that Dr Wakefield's findings have "never been replicated" is also blatantly
false.
Here are the notes on the seven children, as presented in 1996, 14 months
BEFORE Dr Wakefield published his landmark paper in The Lancet:
Child 1. Immediate reaction to MMR with fever at 1 [corrected, illegible]
Rapid deterioration in behaviour - autism
Histology active chronic inflammation in caecum
Treated Asacol
INDETERMINATE COLITIS** (1)
Child 2. MMR at 15 months - head banging 2 weeks later.
Hyperactive from 18 months.
Endoscopy - aphthoid ulcer at hepatic flexure
Caecum: lymphoid nodular hyperplasia with erythematous rim and pale swollen
core.
Histology, Ileum mild inflammation, colon moderate inflammation
Acute and chronic inflammation.
Treated CT3211 [a dietary treatment]
INDETERMINATE COLITIS** ? CROHN’S DISEASE
Child 3. ? dysmorphism - chromosomes and normal development
MMR at 5 months [sic]
Measles at 2.5 years* - 1 month later change in behavior
Hyperactive with food
Colonoscopy - granular rectum, normal colon and lymphoid nodular
hyperplasia.
Histopathology: lymphoid nodular hyperplasia.
Increased eosinophils 5/5 mild increase in inflammatory cells (Dhillon)
Routine normal
LYMPHOID NODULAR HYPERPLASIA
INDETERMINATE COLITIS**
[* correction: he received measles vaccine first at approximately 15 months of
age and MMR at 2.5. years]
Child 4 (2). Reacted to triple vaccine 4 months - screaming and near cot
death
(DPT)
MMR at 15 months - behaviour changed after 1 week.
“measles rash” week before
Endoscopy - minor abnormalities of vascular pattern
Histology - non-specific proctocolitis**
Treated
INDETERMINTE PROCTOCOLITIS
LYMPHOID NODULAR HYPERPLASIA
Child 5 (3). MMR at 14 months.
Second day after, fever and rash, bangs head and behaviour abnormal
thereafter.
Endoscopy - Lymphoid nodular hyperplasia
Histopathology: Marked increase in IEL’s [intraepithelial lymphocytes] in ileum
with chronic inflammatory cells in reactive follicles. Increase in inflammatory
cells in colon and IELs increased.
LYMPHOID NODULAR HYPERPLASIA
INDETERMINATE COLITIS
Child 6 (7). MMR - 16 months - no obvious reaction
2 years behavioral change - 2.5 years
Screaming attacks - / food related
Endoscopy - Lymphoid nodular hyperplasia terminal ileum
Histology - Prominent lymphoid follicles
Dhillon: moderate to marked increase in IEL’s, increase in chronic inflammatory
cells throughout the colon - superficial macrophages not quite granuloma
INDTERMINATE COLITIS
Child 78. MMR 14 months
16 months “growling voice”
18 months - behavioural changes - autism diagnosed at 3 years
Barium [follow through X ray] 5 cm tight stricture [proximal] to insertion of
terminal ileum
Endoscopy- prominent lymphoid follicle in ileum
Mild proctitis with granular mucosa
Histology
Ileum - reactive follicles
Colon - bifid forms, increased IEL’s
Slight increase in inflammatory cells
INDETERMINATE COLITIS
? CROHN’S DISEASE
NOTES:
(1) Inflammation that is not diagnostic of either Crohn’s disease or ulcerative
colitis
(2) Child 6 in The Lancet paper. The chronological order was corrected for the
final Lancet paper.
(3) Child 3 in The Lancet paperBMJ
caught in its own fraud
These documents reveal that the British Medical Journal has been caught in its
own fraud for willfully ignoring this evidence, which was presented to it long
before its recent publication of Brian Deer's article calling Dr Wakefield a
fraud.
The BMJ willfully ignored this evidence and simply decided to destroy Dr
Wakefield's professional reputation by any means necessary. As Dr Wakefield
explains:
"In allowing itself to become the vehicle for Brian Deer’s particular brand
of journalism; in circumventing the process of due diligence in its enthusiasm
to “kill the beast”, the BMJ has taken a huge risk. As the document presented
above shows, this was a mistake. Medicine, presented with the possibility of an
iatrogenic catastrophe, has boarded a dissonant bandwagon and has gone after
those who have concerns - genuine concerns - that childhood vaccines may be
responsible, at least in part, for the autism epidemic. The relevant science has
been grossly misrepresented, crushed beneath the wheels of a Public Relations
16-wheeler that is out of control. In the meantime a relentless tsunami of
damaged children claims this land."Brian Deer caught as a
liar
It has also been revealed that journalist Brian Deer, the author of the BMJ
article condemning Dr Wakefield as a fraud, is himself a liar. In attempting to
gather evidence for his article in the BMJ, he lied about his identity and
entered the home of one of the parents of the autism children. Specifically, he
claimed he was working for The Sunday Times even though he was never a
Sunday Times employee.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of the outright deception that has been used
by the BMJ and Brian Deer in their attempt to silence a doctor whose only
"crime" was publicly expressing concern about the safety of MMR vaccines.
That the BMJ and its writer Brian Deer have now been caught ignoring evidence
and engaging in their own fraud gives credence to the idea that MMR vaccines
may, indeed, not only be dangerous; but that they may be so dangerous that
the top medical journals have to lie about the facts in order to protect them.
What's clear here is that the BMJ has strayed so far from the realm of
evidence-based scientific thinking that it can no longer be called a reputable
medical journal at all. Its callous disregard for the truth -- and its
politically-motivated witch hunt against a researcher who only sought to protect
the health of children -- exposes it as a danger to the scientific community
and the world of conventional medicine.
As this truth unfolds, these revelations will rock the medical world and
expose these science journals as the frauds they truly are. Think about
this: While these medical journals are taking money from vaccine manufacturers
(who pay their ads), they are ignoring any scientific evidence they don't like
in order to vilify anyone who threatens the profits of these very same vaccine
companies! And yet, these medical journals never admit that their very existence
depends on the financial flow of money from these vaccine manufacturers who are
strongly impacted by their editorial decisions!
There is fraud taking place in the vaccine industry today, of course, and the
medical journals are the point men who push their distorted disinformation into
the minds of doctors, journalists and anyone they can reach with their
scientific distortions. At stake is the future of the vaccine industry, which is
of course a multi-billion-dollar industry that thrives on misinformation and the
ongoing scientific censorship of the facts surrounding the health risks
posed by vaccines.Read the book Callous Disregard
Dr Andrew Wakefield is the author of Callous Disregard, the book that
exposes the truth behind conventional medicine's political witch hunt. The book
is sold everywhere, including Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Callous-Disre...
Sources for this story include:
http://www.vaccinesafetyfirst.com/p...