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This is an illustration of the wealth creators/snake oil salesmen of America who see a way of making money from gullible people. It's all about the money not the people. The story that alarmed me was that black people who have a distrust of Government (no surprise there) are largely anti-vax too. I can see the snake-oil salesmen rubbing their hands with the money they can make from them and the cynic inside me says that these people shrug and say "Who cares what happens to them - they're black".
Don't believe a word I say. I'm only kidding. Or am I?
Worth adding here that the conduct of several normally respectable media entities including the Lancet and Private Eye(who ran a special issue about the affair and half been weirdly quiet about it, since).
I'll have to catch the C4 documentary, but I watched a youtube video on his study into MMR recently and the wickedness of the bloke can't be understated. He's the perfect example of a conman, exploiting people desperate for answers and solutions for what's happened to their child, but with the added fact that his data was falsified and he performed risky and completely unnecessary medical procedures on children without proper consent and any ethical clearances.
He also arguably had a massive negative impact on peoples perception of autism. The media coverage wouldn't have led you to believe Autism was a spectrum from severe to mild to barely noticable. The only examples shown were of severely effected children, often non-verbal to get the maximum impact. The conduct of the scientifically illiterate media during the MMR scare was appalling and was another huge factor in the creation of the anti-vax movement.
Video in question (it's not short):
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Anyone else want to punch Andrew Wakefield? on 07:52 - Jun 2 with 1995 views
Worth adding here that the conduct of several normally respectable media entities including the Lancet and Private Eye(who ran a special issue about the affair and half been weirdly quiet about it, since).
Anyone else want to punch Andrew Wakefield? on 07:12 - Jun 2 by Kievthegreat
I'll have to catch the C4 documentary, but I watched a youtube video on his study into MMR recently and the wickedness of the bloke can't be understated. He's the perfect example of a conman, exploiting people desperate for answers and solutions for what's happened to their child, but with the added fact that his data was falsified and he performed risky and completely unnecessary medical procedures on children without proper consent and any ethical clearances.
He also arguably had a massive negative impact on peoples perception of autism. The media coverage wouldn't have led you to believe Autism was a spectrum from severe to mild to barely noticable. The only examples shown were of severely effected children, often non-verbal to get the maximum impact. The conduct of the scientifically illiterate media during the MMR scare was appalling and was another huge factor in the creation of the anti-vax movement.
Video in question (it's not short):
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Was going to post this exact video.
hmbomberguy will not be everyone's cup of tea here, but for an overview of all the weird things that happened, it's well worth a watch.
It's absolutely incredible that the study not only went as far as it did, but that the media ran with something that was obviously nonsense.
After watching it, I went and read the paper as well and it's stunningly bad.
Anyone else want to punch Andrew Wakefield? on 19:38 - Jun 2 by Rob88
That is 1hr 44mins of my life I will never get back.....but I don’t want back, worth a watch for anyone ignorant (like I was) and tempted.
The whole anti COVID, anti vaccine conspiracy bull has boiled my urine.
I knew of his UK history but had no idea he had prospered in the US. Spent much of yesterday wondering if he was misguided and genuinely thought vaccines dangerous or dishonest and looking for financial gain.
Didnt resolve it, but reckon I am 95% certain it's the latter. Either way, he should never have been given a platform and as others have said, the lancet properly messed up running his original paper.
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