Bill Welsh
President
Autism Treatment Trust.
Scotland
[2009 March] Autism
March London 2009 The Cambridge University study’s
author Simon Baron-Cohen says the increase in
autism is due to: “Better recognition” ----this is
baloney.
Baron-Cohen is also quoted as
saying the rise in autism is due to “Changing diagnostic criteria”---this is
more baloney. Many of today’s autistic children
cannot talk. What we are being told by Baron-Cohen is that prior to 1990,
parents did not notice that their children could not talk, doctors did not
notice, teachers did not notice. We need scientists
with integrity, truly independent scientists. Not self-publicists.
Our children are being failed
The vaccination programme is definitely, unequivocally, absolutely,
deeply implicated in what has happened to thousands of British children and tens
of thousands of children worldwide.
GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL FORMAL COMPLAINT.
GMC FORMAL COMPLAINT LETTER
[2008] Grandad jabs at top
doctors over MMR vaccineA WHO’S WHO of Britain’s top doctors has been reported to
the General Medical Council over claims they failed to
address health issues regarding the triple jab.
It marks a dramatic twist to the debate about the alleged
link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and
autism. Those reported to the GMC include Professor David
Salisbury, the Department of Health’s director of
immunisation, and the Government’s chief medical officer Sir
Liam Donaldson. Also on the list is Mr Donaldson’s predecessor, Sir
Kenneth Calman, who until recently was Vice Chancellor of
Durham University.
[2008 Letter BMJ] The MMR story is not complete
[2008 Aug] Dumb And Dumber
[2008 Letter]
[2008 BMJ]
The MMR “debacle” as
Ben Goldacre
describes it is far from over. "The blame" does not
lie with “hundreds of journalists” etc, it lies
fairly and squarely with a highly politicised health
system that discourages dissent from within its own
ranks, that combined with a greed philosophy that
has enveloped a once fine profession. It may be of
interest to BMJ readers to learn of some of the
glowing descriptive terms used at the ongoing GMC
trial of Dr Wakefield et al, with regard to their
scientific research: “excellent”, “robust and
rigorous”, “revolutionary”, “watertight”, “clinical
observation backed up by good science”, etc, etc. I
could go on but when I tell you that these quotes
are from prosecution witnesses you will realise how
far off the mark ‘Becoming’ Ben is in his attacks on
the witness of thousands of parents. And that is
what the MMR debate has become, a battle between
ordinary citizens whose children face 70 years of
mental handicap and pain, and people like Goldacre.
This is no longer about good science or bad science,
the science debate was over when the editor of the
Lancet, Richard Horton, recently conceded re
Wakefield’s paper, and I quote: 'The essential
clinical findings remain unchallenged as far as
their accuracy is concerned'. Perhaps Horton can
encourage Goldacre “to a deeper understanding of
this complex issue”.