There charlatans charlatans. There are some that are humorous and ridiculous, like the sorcerer more. There are others who live on another planet which makes you see them ... as if we really are from another planet, and Jaime Maussan. These two are not so dangerous, if at all can blame them - especially Maussan - is to send messages and information Conspiranoids totally wrong.
But there are dangerous charlatans, and I mean a degree level of danger to world health. I speak specifically of Andrew Wakefield.
Andrew Wakefield is a doctor (here it is the maxim " the doctor does not remove the asshole" ) which, together with other doctors, in 1998 published a study of 12 children ("12?" Just?, cost reduction, I guess) to which associated a link between the MMR vaccine (MMR, Measles, Mumps and Rubella or MMR, in English) and autism. The article was published in The Lancet .
2010, a journalist, Brian Deer made his task of investigating Wakefield, and it ended up that The Lancet removed the item because they had ethical preoupaciones by the methods of Wakefield. So far, everything seems to Wakefield, in his eagerness to "scientific" was a relationship, but this was denied.
The problem comes in that the Wakefield study raised a number irrational fear of vaccines in the United Kingdom and United Estdos. As a result, groups like Age of Autism or SafeMinds were created, raising propaganda Fear of vaccines and spreading misinformation to the public in general.
Proponents of this movement as a defense have something that is called whenever there is conspiracy in relation to health, the movement of Big Pharma (or Farmafia, says @ rolanddt of Fuzzy Logic ) .
Irrational fear meant that parents do not want to vaccinate their children for fear of having autism, as a result. Which is unfortunate because that seemed controlled diseases arise again as the whooping cough and measles ).
These groups have in their having a count of dead ones. It is hard to imagine that health agencies take no action against these charlatans.
However, the journalist Brian Deer (which should be given credit for his excellent work as a journalist for 7 years in this case) uncovered a cloaca regarding Wakefield's original publication (as a journalist and would like to investigate the molecular detector, not that Mr. Santos Mondragón Televisa).
Comod said, Lancet , removed the article by Wakefield in February 2010, saying he had ethical concerns. But now we discover that not only is bad science, but there is false information, misrepresentations, distorted information to achieve personal interests, lies, the test subjects were chosen in particular, were not random, there was no negative controls, some already display features of autism, several months after they developed the vaccine. Not only is bad science, but this was deliberate. What worse than a charlatan, with the media, and with a specific agenda. What a bastard disgust. The Age of Autism movement and accuse Wakefield himself Deer to be sold under the Farmafia. Typical.
This has not stopped the anti-vaccine movement, on the other hand, Wakefield is now regarded as the victim of Farmafia as a martyr.
Why am I interested in this? Ultimately, it has a profound impact here.
I do not know why this is but we are prone to copy bullshit and half northern neighbors (did not go to the moon the conspiracy of September 11, etc), not wanting to let it land, I know a gringo good for my work and my closeness to them and I have good comrades, but that there there are lunatics.
is important to note that vaccines, like all drugs, not 100% safe or effective. A bad stick, a trigger anaphylactic shock allergy, wrong dose, a number of risks taken when receiving an injection. However, all this is subject to regulations, practices and workouts are not 100% sure, but it is so and it is the best we have at the moment.
leave is a fact that the vaccine is a global risk, there is no better method of preventing infections that vaccines. Method, we must not abandon, if not, the consequences are severe .
is not enough the fact that Wakefield falsified his study to reject the link between autism and vaccines. There has been a significant amount of studies confirm that there is no such correlation. Orac's excellent blog Respectful Insolence (maybe not know but Orac is David Gorski in Science Based Medicine another bitchen blog of Medicine) is in a good number of entries Information from these studies. If you have a joke, it's worth taking a lens.
It must be difficult having a child with autism must be desperate. Poor poor little kids and parents too. They are a population susceptible to emotions and to want to seek a response to the disease, which, when no cure. Can easily fall into the trap of anti-vaccine movement, but it remains to educate and speak clearly. At the time, better information with which account tells us that there is a link between autism and vaccines to prevent diseases.
hope that this movement does not get to have the mismas consecuencias en México que las que ha tenido en Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido. Y digo esto porque, de acuerdo al estudio publicado en El Universal , los mexicanos le temen a los científicos. Un padre desesperado por encontrar respuestas, mas el miedo a la ciencia, caes casi automáticamente en las manos de charlatanes, como los proponentes de Andrew Wakefield. Aunque, las estadísticas muestran que México es mucho más efectivo que EEUU cuando se trata de inmunizar a los niños. Según este artículo , México inmuniza al 96% de los niños de entre 1 y 4 años de edad, mientras EEUU logra el 79% a los niños de 2 años.
What I despair of the matter is, of course Wakefield, but so soft authorities there. Not only here but around the world to let this flight charlatans literally bring people to the grave. How do I change that? That's the million dollar question.
Of the 12 co-authors of the original article in The Lancet, 10 authors have requested that their names be removed to Wakefield withdrew his medical license in the United Kingdom, has been brutally beaten by bloggers , and on CNN, Anderson Cooper put a real sponsor. Without doubt, this is the coup de grace for Wakefield, unfortunately That will not stop the anti-vaccine movement, that damage has been done both.
Here the video of Anderson Cooper.
From page of Mr. Brian Deer , I took this chronology of events of how he sank the dagger in Wakefield. Chulada of pela'o.
expounder and Exposed: the rise and fall of the MMR crisis
October 1988: MMR triple vaccine , containing live attenuated measles, mumps and rubella viruses, is Launched in the United Kingdom, after successful use in America since 1971
February 1996: A solicitor, Richard Barr, hires Andrew Wakefield at £150 an hour to support a planned legal attack on MMR jab manufacturers. Not publicly disclosed
June 1996: Wakefield and Barr ask the UK Legal Aid Board for money to show a link between MMR and a "new syndrome" of autism and bowel disease. Not publicly disclosed
July 1996: First autistic child admitted to Royal Free hospital for research project. Of the 12 in the study, most are Barr and campaign contacts, and 11 will turn out to be litigants
June 1997: Wakefield files for a patent on his own supposedly “safer” single measles jab, and for miracle products to treat autism and bowel disease. Not publicly disclosed
February 1998: The Lancet publishes the paper proposing link between MMR, and a "syndrome" of autism and bowel disease. Wakefield makes no disclosure of his interests
January 2001: The Daily Mail and other newspapers launch campaigns backing Wakefield after he publishes a “review” of his evidence and [repeats] calls for single vaccines
December 2001: Prime minister Tony Blair is ambushed by Wakefield supporters with allegations that his youngest son, Leo, did not have MMR . The claim turns out to be untrue
January 2003: Vaccination among two-year-olds falls to 78.9%: below the 92% needed to protect the population. Figures in parts of inner London are half the national rates
February 2004: The Sunday Times reveals Andrew Wakefield’s legal funding and the children’s litigant status. The revelations are greeted by a media firestorm and public anger
February 2004: Dr Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, describes the original February 1998 paper as “fatally flawed” and apologises for publishing it in the journal
March 2004: Ten of the 1998 Lancet paper’s 13 authors, excluding Wakefield, retract their previous claim of possible MMR-autism link set out in its conclusions, or "interpretation"
November 2004: Brian Deer's Channel 4 investigation reveals Wakefield’s single vaccine patent claims and commercial interests, and that measles was not found in the children
January 2005: Wakefield starts libel lawsuits against Brian Deer, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 Television, claiming that all allegations against him are false and defamatory
March 2005: Scientists reveal that, after MMR was discontinued in Japan, the incidence of reported autism continued to rise at a similar rate to countries using the three-in-one
April 2006: The Sunday Times reports that a 13-year-old boy had become the first person in the UK in 14 years to die from measles. Meanwhile, measles outbreaks rage
December 2006: The Sunday Times reveals details of Wakefield's personal funding from the lawyer - £435,643, plus expenses, or £150 an hour - to sustain a speculative lawsuit
January 2007: Wakefield abandons his three libel actions, and agrees to pay the defendants' costs, later sending Brian Deer a cheque to cover the defence of this website
July 2007: GMC opens professional misconduct case against Wakefield and two other Royal Free colleagues concerning their research on and treatment of the Lancet children
February 2009: The Sunday Times reveals how Wakefield rigged the Lancet research. He denies fraud, files and then abandons a complaint with the UK Press Complaints Commission
February 2009: Three test case judgments for 5,000 claims are handed down in US federal court rejecting the allegation that MMR can cause autism, and lambasting Wakefield
January 2010: GMC panel gives findings from its misconduct hearing for Wakefield, John Walker-Smith and Simon Murch over their Lancet research and treatment of children
February 2010: The Lancet retracts Wakefield's 1998 MMR-autism research paper. The journal's editor describes aspects of it as "utterly false", and says he "felt deceived"
February 2010: Wakefield is ousted by Thoughtful House, in Austin, Texas, which, in a terse statement, says "we fully support his decision to leave" his $280,000-a-year post
May 2010: After a 217-day inquiry, the General Medical Council tribunal orders Wakefield and former accomplice Prof John Walker-Smith to be erased from the medical register
January 2011: In an editorial, BMJ, the British Medical Journal, calls the fraud and publishes "Secrets of the MMR scare", a series by Deer revealing the scandal in new detail.
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