tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41545485733496105032024-03-13T00:28:06.518+00:00JABS Loonies - Justice, Awareness, Basic Support and Mind Blowing StupidityBeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.comBlogger295125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-80645089720391608992014-09-22T08:09:00.000+01:002014-09-22T08:09:16.189+01:00How soon will Wakefield be wanking for coins again?<p>Just a quick one here, but I thought you'd all like to hear that the Texas court has <a href="http://www.statesman.com/news/news/court-andrew-wakefield-autism-researcher-cannot-su/nhQhN/" target="_blank">told Andrew Wakefield to stick his defamation suit up his arse</a>. Couldn't have happened to a more unpleasant man. It seems he's had costs awarded against him too, so with any luck that big house in Austin will be up for sale again. Either that or he'll be reduced to getting Ed "Loser" Arranga and the rest of his arse lickers (maybe they'll find the remains of his lawsuit up there) to assist him in a new "Wanking for coins" operation.</p>
<p>Predictably, John Stone (who as we know, is a cock) has started banging on in the pages of the internet's equivalent of tomorrow's chip wrapper, Age of Autism, implying that it's all a big stitch up by Big Pharma.</p>
<p>Just leave it, Stone, you twat. If Wakefield was so convinced he had a case, he'd have sued in the UK. He clearly wasn't convinced, and knows he can't get away with bringing a suit and trying to delay it infinitely while his acolytes pour more cash into his bank account. Not again - he's tried that a couple of times and lost.</p>
<p>Wakefield - just fuck off for good please, and take that cock John Stone with you.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-33850528083779544162014-05-28T08:50:00.000+01:002014-05-28T08:50:52.805+01:00That Colossal Tool Clifford Miller...<p>..., the author of the ill-named ChildHealthSafety blog, has tried to link to this blog, but has managed to fuck up the hyperlink.</p>
<p>Maybe he'll fix it, and so people will come here from his blog.</p>
<p>If so, I'd just like to point out that Clifford Miller is a complete tool. He runs the "ChildHealthSafety" blog, a shittily written piece of garbage which lies and misrepresents data to help Clifford "Tool" Miller claim that vaccines are dangerous.</p>
<p>He's one of John "Cock" Stone's mates (a prime example of "judge a man by the company he keeps"), and as such, really hates Dr Ben Goldacre, as can be seen by his latest spittle-flecked rant. Like anyone gives anything more than a tiny fraction of half a fuck what Miller thinks.</p>
<p>On his blog, he removes sensibly worded criticism and comment, and replaces it with his own shite.</p>
<p>He's done legal work for Mr FraudyTrousers.</p>
<p>He's a fucking danger to children. If people buy into his anti-vaccine bollocks and stop vaccinating, measles and other diseases will come roaring back. </p>
<p>He presumably got into this anti-vaccine nonsense hoping to make a shitload of cash - he's a solicitor, and clearly not a very good one, jusging by the incoherence of his writing - by suing drug companies. And now he can't back out without looking like more of a tool than he already does.</p>
<p>But I'm no expert on Clifford "Tool" Miller. For the real expert view, have a read of <a href="http://jdc325.wordpress.com/tag/child-health-safety/" target="_blank">jdc325's blog, "Stuff and Nonsense"</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks for the traffic Clifford (if you fix your hyperlink), you colossal tool.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-50390945120239151572014-03-19T11:00:00.001+00:002014-03-19T11:00:32.532+00:00Callous Disregard price countdown - March 2014<p>Apologies for being away for so long - you know how it is, busy busy busy…</p>
<p>Still, thought I'd better pop back to let you all know that you can get Andrew Wakefield's firelighter in hardback from Amazon.com for less than $2. Yes, finally, you can pick up a copy for $1.98. That's £1.19 in real money. Less than the price of a copy of <i>The Guardian</i>. On a weekday. Not even the Saturday one.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-14860117100297259662013-09-12T08:43:00.002+01:002013-09-12T08:44:57.983+01:00Dr Mark Struthers (Cybertiger)<p><a href="http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/UPDATE-Missing-man-found-dead-in-Warren-Wood-is-former-Flitwick-GP-20130819153637.htm" target="_blank">This news</a> has come to my attention.</p>
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THE body of a man found in woodland near Clophill yesterday is believed to be that of a former Flitwick GP.
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Mark Struthers, 56, from Flitton, was last seen at his home address by his wife on Thursday (August 15) at around 12pm. When she returned at 1.45pm that day he had disappeared.</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-5034684508107271782013-09-11T10:19:00.000+01:002013-09-11T10:19:37.621+01:00Jake Crosby makes me laugh more than strictly neccessary<p>OK - today I found out the funniest thing I've come across in years.</p>
<p>Jake Crosby - purveyor of conspiracy theories to the loonocracy and bizarre conflict of interest claims to the hard of thinking, science-celebrity stalker and all round poster boy for the mercury militia - has been awarded a Masters in Epidemiology.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.autisminvestigated.com/editor-of-autism-investigated-earns-mph-in-epidemiology/" target="_blank">Here he tells the world all about it</a>.</p>
<p>What has the world come to? (I'd be fascinated to see his thesis / dissertation. Is that sort of thing in the public domain? Must check.)</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-29663540882795501422013-07-17T12:27:00.001+01:002013-07-17T12:33:04.333+01:00Fat is a vaccine issue. Apparently.<p>Nancy Hokkanen has posted a load of drivel which completely misrepresents the concept of risk. I'd pull it to bits, but frankly it's too long and I can't be bothered to read it. I feel I may die of boredom if I try.</p>
<p>However, in the comments, John "Cock" Stone shows up, and makes the claim that "54% of US children have a chronic disease… And all we know is it was not the vaccines - or do we?" - with an actual link to where he's getting that scary claim from.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876285910002500" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window or tab">The link is here</a>.</p>
<p>What it actually says in the abstract is this:</p>
<p style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccc;">An estimated 43% of US children (32 million) currently have at least 1 of 20 chronic health conditions assessed, <b>increasing to 54.1% when overweight, obesity</b>, or being at risk for developmental delays are included</p>
<p>So it seems that John Stone thinks vaccines have fucking pies in them. What a twat.</p>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-29519716905914263422013-05-30T13:06:00.001+01:002013-05-30T13:18:32.535+01:00Fundraiser, Schmundraiser. Or something.<p>Poor Andrew "Mr Fraudytrousers" Wakefield. So impoverished he has to go begging with the likes of Ed Arranga and that gullible cow behind academicintegrityfund.com/.</p>
<p>Yeah, right. Like fuck he does.</p>
<p>He's apparently got his house in Austin, Texas up for sale.</p>
<p>For $1,450,000.</p>
<p>One million, four hundred and fifty fucking thousand dollars.</p>
<p>As an example of what $1,450,000 buys you in Austin, <a href="http://www.austinhomesearch.com/Listing/ListingSearch.aspx?Search=9484f9b4-dea8-4125-a453-0f9f533db08c&SearchType=&ListingType=&ListingDistrictTypeID=&FirstLetter=&Sort=6&view=/" target="_blank" title="House porn">take a look here</a>. (Yes, it's one of these - no, I'm not going to say which one.)</p>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-40290533519215390382013-04-27T12:21:00.001+01:002013-04-27T12:23:01.393+01:00I believe...<p>Dan Olmsted is the editor of Age of Autism. I'd have thought that to get the title "Editor" of anything, you'd need to have at least a modicum of sense. But when has that ever mattered at Age of Idiocy?</p>
<p>Olmsted writes a piece which he pompously titles "Weekly Wrap", in which he moans about sensible people not agreeing with his loopy ideas, and mentions mercury more often than a hagiographic post on a Queen forum.</p>
<p>This week, he's praising Joan Campbell. You may remember Campbell - she put a website together called "followingvaccinations.com", which is basically a list of unsupported and unverified anecdotes from anti-vaxers making claims that their children are ill because of vaccines.</p>
<p>Olmsted quotes one of these - it starts like this: <br>
<i> I believe my son's issues stem from the two flu vaccines I was strongly advised to take during pregnancy.</i></p>
<p>"I believe." That's it. </p>
<p>Well, people believe a lot of shit, and, at Age of Autism, belief is the only thing they've got. I'll leave you with this:</p>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-88240395915563246112013-04-26T08:55:00.001+01:002013-04-26T08:56:04.664+01:00Anne Dachel admits it's all about "blame"<p>For those of you who may be unaware of her activities, Anne Dachel is Age of Autism's "Media Editor". This high-falutin' (as I believe they say in America) title is just a cover for the more accurate, but more long winded "drone with a Google News update for 'Autism' who then goes and spams every story with cut and paste nonsense about vaccines, whether it's relevant or not. And then runs away."</p>
<p>It'd be a bastard to get on a business card I suppose.</p>
<p>Still. Every couple of days, Anne Dachel puts a post up on Age of Autism, with links to her latest drive-by spammings, sometimes with a mindblowingly stupid comment about the stories she doesn't agree with; ie, every story that doesn't implicate vaccines as the cause of autism.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/04/dachel-media-update.html" target="_blank" title="Age of Autism. Beware - contains stupid" rel="nofollow">today's update</a> though, she's given a bit away about her attitude to autism - interestingly just a couple of days after Orac has written an interesting piece inspired by Dachel; <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/04/24/sometimes-antivaccinationists-reveal-more-than-they-intend-about-why-the-blame-vaccines-for-autism/" target="_blank" title="Respectful Insolence - opens in a new window">Sometimes antivaccinationists reveal more than they intend about why they blame vaccines for autism</a>. Give it a read - it's quite enlightening.</p>
<p>As I say, in <a href="http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/04/dachel-media-update.html" target="_blank" title="Age of Autism. Beware - contains stupid" rel="nofollow">today's media update</a>, Dachel pretty much signs her agreement to what Orac's written.</p>
<p style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccc;">The stories about using the placenta and blood to detect autism reinforce the claim that children are born with autism. In the end, it’s always going to [be] blamed on the parents.</p>
<p>There you have it. It's all about blame. Her whole anti-vax schtick is about shifting "blame" from herself to vaccines. </p>
<p>Anne - there's no "blame" attached to parents of children on the autistic spectrum! None at all! Stop looking for something to shift your perceived guilt onto - there's no guilt, no blame - and look after your beautiful children. </p>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-57442973863194975342013-04-23T09:40:00.001+01:002013-04-23T09:43:45.423+01:00Andrew Wakefield moves goalposts and looks like a twat. Again.<p>That smarmy, rubber faced goon Andrew Wakefield is at it again, moving goalposts quickly enough to stop a Christiano Ronaldo freekick from going in. This time he's released a YouTube video (because, as we all know, heavily rehearsed and edited videos are the way scientific debate is conducted - and in this example, Wakefield still comes across as less sincere than a Tory politician apologising for being caught shagging his secretary) banging on about the dangers of anaphylaxis from measles containing vaccines.</p>
<p>Hold on - I thought Wakefield's schtick (since shown to be utter rubbish, and much of it simply made up for money) was that vaccine strain measles virus found in the gut somehow magically caused autism. I don't remember him publishing anything on anaphylaxis in the Lancet...</p>
<p>Yes, Wakefield's just showing his true colours - that of anti-vaccine wingnut (remember, whatever the problem, it's the vaccines, it's always the vaccines) - in order to leech a few tears (and hopefully dollars) from his credulous flunkies.</p>
<p>Still, let's run with it in order to show what a twat he is.</p>
<p>Wakefield cites a single 1992 study of (I think, without watching his shiny faced lying again) 15,000 vaccinations showing a possible anaphylaxis rate of 1 in 500. A quick search has failed to find this study, but it did turn up this:</p>
<p>"<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14523172" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window/tab">Risk of anaphylaxis after vaccination of children and adolescents</a>"<br>
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14523172" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window/tab">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14523172</a><br>
This study appears to be somewhat larger; in fact they state: </p>
<p style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccc;">"We identified 5 cases of potentially vaccine-associated anaphylaxis after administration of 7 644 049 vaccine doses, for a risk of 0.65 cases/million doses (95% confidence interval: 0.21-1.53). None of the episodes resulted in death."</p>
<p>So, a larger study found an anaphylaxis rate of 1 in approx 1.3 million. Hmm…</p>
<p>Anyway, let's carry on…</p>
<p>Wakefield claims his favoured study found a rate of 1 in 500 of specifically measles containing vaccines. He doesn't say MMR. </p>
<p>He than goes on to discuss a mass revaccination initiative in 1994, instigated by Professor David Salisbury (Director of Immunisation at the Department of Health) of 8 million children in the UK. The initial programme was carried out in schools, which Wakefield claims is inherently unsafe, as, using his seemingly rectally sourced figure of 1 in 500 for anaphylaxis it would put around 15,000 children at risk of death (to avoid a predicted 50 deaths should a major measles epidemic strike the UK).</p>
<p>Now, given that Wakefield doesn't produce a figure for actual anaphylaxis events during this program (so I'm guessing there weren't any), schools are pretty well geared up for awareness and treatment of anaphylaxis, and that vaccines administered at school aren't given by the cleaner or the dinner lady, they're given by a medical professional - usually a nurse, Wakefield's challenge to Prof. Salisbury (why were the "risks" of anaphylaxis not taken into account, why was no provision made for anaphylaxis?) looks somewhat hollow. (Wakefield even has the gall to refer to their "forthcoming debate" - as if Professor David Salisbury is in the business of debating struck-off doctors, liars and fraudsters. Fuck off, Fraudytrousers.)</p>
<p>Anyway, this all comes to Wakefield's final point, where he refers to the measles outbreak in Wales (which, let's not forget, is all his fucking fault in the first place) and urges Professor Salisbury to make the option of the single measles jab available on the grounds that it'll be safer - less risk of anaphylaxis.</p>
<p>He appears to have forgotten that, according to his own bullshit, anaphylaxis is associated with measles containing vaccines. All of them. So how is offering a single jab a better option?</p>
<p>You mendacious, money grubbing, disingenuous, goalpost moving bag of shit, Wakefield.</p>
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<p>Amazon.com currently have the hardback (new) at $5.39 (£3.53), and a "used" (urgh) copy of the paperback for $2.74 (£1.80 - about the price of a half in most London pubs).</p>
<p>And all this during the week he's issued a bleating "It's not my fault! 'snot fair! Blub blub!" video insisting that despite what everyone not completely hard of thinking realises, he's not responsible for the South Wales measles outbreak (765 confirmed cases, with 77 hospitalised). Presumably a big boy did it and ran away.</p>
<p>You bag of <b>shit</b>, Wakefield.</p>
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<h3><i>"Health officials say 64 new measles cases have been reported in the Swansea area in the last week, taking the outbreak to 316 with 42 hospitalised."</i></h3>
<p>Look, Andrew Wakefield, John "Cock" Stone, Jackie Fletcher, JB Handley, Anne Dachel, Meryl Dorey, that stupid woman behind "What Doctors Don't Tell You" and the rest of you shouty anti-vaccine TWATS. <b>THIS IS ALL YOUR FUCKING FAULT</b>. A few choice quotes…</p>
<p><i>"We cannot emphasise enough that measles is an illness that can kill, or leave people with permanent complications including severe brain damage," said Dr Marion Lyons, director of health protection for Public Health Wales.</i></p>
<p><i>These can include ear infections, vomiting and diarrhoea, pneumonia, meningitis and serious eye disorders.</i></p>
<p><i>It says it is only a matter of time before a child is left with serious and permanent complications or even dies.</i></p>
<p>I hope you're fucking ashamed of yourselves, you BASTARDS.</p>
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<p>(A note to wingnuts: I'm well aware that you think other things cause autism - mercury, aluminium, formaldehyde and whatever else you (often wrongly) think is in vaccines, but I'm referring specifically to MMR here.)</p>
<p>In the comments of a <a href="http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/03/weekly-wrap-lanza-newtown-autism.html#comments" target="_blank">piece at Age of Autism</a>, John Stone (who, as we will remember is a cock) has been banging on for some reason, trying to get other comments to refer to Wakefield's work as a "paper" or "report", rather than a "study". I'm not sure why - unless he feels that the word "study" implies "work done for the purposes of research" as opposed to "report" which implies simply "writing up what has been observed during normal clinical practice". Of course, that was the whole point of John Walker-Smith's appeal - that he believed he was doing clinical work, treating ill children, and he wasn't involved in actual research. Is John Stone preparing the ground for the same argument to be used by (or on behalf of) Wakefield at some point in the future? </p>
<p>After all, one of the themes you'll find from wingnut anti-vaccine green-inkers is that since Walker-Smith was exonerated, that clearly exonerates Wakefield, and so the Lancet study (I'll stick to "study") should be re-instated blah blah blah.</p>
<p>Given that Walker-Smith stated, through his solicitor, that there was now no credible evidence to support the MMR/autism hypothesis, and that anti-vaxers the world over have been lauding him as an honourable man, a world-renowned paediatrician and the man who gave Wakefield's work the academic rigour it craved, surely they should be holding their hands up in a "Mea culpa" style (I'm sure that's not quite the right Latin, but you know what I mean), saying "OK, we got it wrong. John Walker-Smith, expert, honourable man and world-renowned paediatrician says so, and he's right."</p>
<p>Or maybe they won't believe their honourable expert and world-renowned paediatrician. He's got this major conclusion wrong. Well, in that case, he's clearly not the expert you thought he was, is he? And so he doesn't really add any respectability to Wakefield's work, does he?</p>
<p>But neither of those are likely. The conspiracy minded among them, led by John "Cock" Stone will bleat "But Professor Walker-Smith had to say that - he'd never have been exonerated otherwise." But of course, if that's the case, that Walker-Smith had to grovel and say the study was wrong all along in order to be vindicated, then frankly, the rest of his evidence and testimony can't have been up to much in the first place, and he knew he was conducting research. Which means the whole study was totally unethical after all.</p>
<p>So, wingnuts; which is it?</p>
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<p style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccc;">One of the guilty pleasures of covering the autism story lo these many years is to witness the spectacle of arrogant, ignorant "experts" weighing in on the issue -- supposedly on the side of science, or, as they often think of it, Science -- and making absolute blithering fools of themselves.</p>
<p>Rather splendidly, he's inadvertently posted this on a page that includes a couple of lists of arrogant, ignorant "experts" who frequently make absolute blithering fools of themselves.</p>
<p>They're at the top, in the menu bar. One list is Dan Olmsted, Mark Blaxill, Kim Stagliano. The other can be seen by simply moving your mouse over the "contributors" link in the menu. Bingo.</p>
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<p>On his online chip-wrapper, Age of <b>Autism</b>, an anti-vaccine rag that pretends it's about supporting those with, and living with autistic spectrum disorders, he writes:</p>
<p style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccc;">None of us give a flying F%$# about the prevalence of autism in South Korea</p>
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<p>You jingoistic, unfeeling, hate-filled - and I'd say at the very least bordering on racist - CUNT, Handley.</p>
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<p>He's read my piece from a few days ago in which I ridiculed him for trying to link Savile to religious exemption - I still have no idea what the fuck he thought he was saying - and after accusing me of being Brian Deer again (*sigh*) - he tries another angle, although, as ever with Stone, it's barely more coherent.</p>
<p>His new angle is to suggest that if "he remained protected and possibly assisted for more than 50 years by the great and the powerful", that shows that those same great and powerful have obviously covered up his imagined MMR scandal. He goes on to mention a couple of other cover-ups to show that these imaginary "great and powerful" are quite capable of covering things up. At least, I think that's what he's banging on about. But he's wrong, that's not where the similarities lie.</p>
<p>First of all, in the case of Savile, people did raise concerns, and had them dismissed out of hand, with no investigation.</p>
<p>Andrew Wakefield raised concerns about the MMR vaccine, and these were dismissed, but only after millions of pounds and thousands of hours were spent on trying to replicate his results, investigating aspects of his work in case there was something in his (always rather unlikely) hypothesis came to nothing. All those resources have produced not a shred of evidence that MMR causes autism.</p>
<p>"So they're not similar at all Becky!" I hear you cry. "Hold on there", I reply. "There are similarities - just not in the way Stone thinks."</p>
<p>First of all, during his lifetime, Savile was lauded for the work he did for children. His fund raising for Stoke Mandeville hospital was frequently in the papers and on TV. His most famous TV programme, "Jim'll Fix It" made the wildest dreams of children come true, often thanks to celebrities supporting him; "my very good friends The. Red. Arrows. Very busy people", Iron Maiden, various Doctor Whos, Muhammed Ali.</p>
<p>Andrew Wakefield is always keen to be seen as a brave, maverick doctor who's only doing his work for the benefit of the children - and has been supported over the years by well known faces (some of since whom have retracted their support) - <a href="http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/02/a-statement-from-jenny-mccarthy-jim-carrey-andrew-wakefield-scientific-censorship-and-fourteen-monke.html" target="_blank" title="Warning - link to Age of Autism. Contains stupidity">Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy</a>, <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Private_Eye" target="_blank" title="Rational Wiki">Ian Hislop and Private Eye</a>, The Daily Mail and Spectator's <a href="http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/02/dr-andrew-wakefield-responds-in-the-spectator-with-melanie-phillips.html" target="_blank" title="Age of Autism - original Spectator piece removed from site">Mad Melanie Phillips</a> among them.</p>
<p>It turned out <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-saviles-attack-on-hospital-girl-1417634" target="_blank" title="Daily Mirror">Jimmy Savile was actually attacking children and patients</a>.</p>
<p>It turned out that Andrew Wakefield had attacked children by <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246775/Doctor-centre-MMR-row-Andrew-Wakefield-faces-struck-GMC-ruling.html" target="_blank" title="Daily Mail">ordering non-clinically indicated colonoscopies and lumbar punctures</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTHDKNEx3lo" target-"_blank" title="YouTube video">had taken blood from children at parties, later laughing about how they cried and fainted</a>.</p>
<p>When suspicions were voiced about Savile (all the way through his career, starting with his club DJ days in Leeds) and his activities, <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-and-the-ira-predator-boasted-1389710">he responded with threats of violence</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/magazine/mag-24Autism-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank" title="New York Times">Wakefield's supporters have threatened a reporter from the New York Times; "Be nice to him, or we will hurt you."</a></p>
<p>When violence wasn't an option, Savile would resort to legal threats. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2216358/Jimmy-Savile-allegations-Why-did-listen-Jerry-Sadowitzs-howl-rage.html" target="_blank" title="Daily Mail">In the 1980s he threatened the comedian Jerry Sadowitz with legal action unless he withdrew a live album on which Sadowitz accused Savile of being a paedophile</a>.</p>
<p>Wakefield is famously keen to fling around his legal muscle. He's taken out various cases against investigative reporter Brian Deer (and lost), <a href="http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/doctor-drops-channel-4-mmr-legal-action/117961.article" target="_blank" title="Broadcast Now">Channel 4</a>, and is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/05/andrew-wakefield-sues-bmj-mmr" target="_blank" title="The Guardian">currently engaged in a laughable suit from his bolt-hole in Texas</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/9585422/Jimmy-Savile-Exposure-ITV1-review.html" target="_blank" title="Daily Telegraph">Savile was finally exposed by investigative reporting</a>, showing that his sham "good works" for charity and children were purely to benefit himself by ultimately allowing him access to his victims at hospitals and in television studios.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347" target="_blank" title="British Medical Journal">Wakefield was finally exposed by investigative reporting</a> showing that his sham "good work" for children and the wider autistic community was only done to benefit himself by ultimately allowing him access to vast piles of cash, from legal aid and parents terrified into parting with cash by his lies.</p>
<p>So, it seems John Stone has a point. There are many similarities between Andrew Wakefield and Jimmy Savile - just not perhaps in ways he might have considered. </p>
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<p>Please note, I am not in any way suggesting that Andrew Wakefield is a paedophile.</p>
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<p>I wonder why Wakefield's groupies don't see fit to explain the nature of an event when booking it..?</p>
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<p>Yes, Andrew Wakefield's at it again, debasing himself for a few shekels in order to keep himself in nice shirts and smarm oil. Not content with having Ed "Dickhead" Arranga run the "Dr. Wakefield Justice Fund", he's now reduced to metaphorically bashing the bishop on a new site - academicintegrityfund.com/. </p>
<p>Gosh, "academic integrity fund" - that sounds ever so clever and official, doesn't it?</p>
<p>Sadly it's not. It's just another excuse for Wakefield to bleat "It's not fair" while tugging himself off for the donations thrown by his acolytes. Wakefield wouldn't know Academic Integrity if it jumped up and bit him in the face. (Does anyone have a Pit Bull Terrier called Academic Integrity - we could try it out…)</p>
<p>(I've just thought - maybe Ed Arranga is such a shit fundraiser, Wakefield's decided to go elsewhere for his pud-pulling exercises. Ha, ha, and thrice ha. Ed - not only John "Cock" Stone thinks you're a cunt, but so does Fraudytrousers Wakefield. Christ, how much lower could your self esteem go? You shall no doubt in future be mocked by little children in the street, who will shout - "look, there goes Ed the Weirdy Loser"…)</p>
<p>Ahem - back on track. Let's take a look at this webshite shall we?</p>
<p>It seems to have been set up by one Robyn Hurd, a lady (I assume) I wasn't previously aware of from anti-vax circles, and she sets out her stall in the first post on the site, entitled "Imagine".</p>
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Imagine living in a world where man-made products are harming people but no one feels they can speak out about it. People are dying, children suffer from brain injuries, and the population is sick for their entire lifetimes, but our leaders, our doctors and our scientists keep quiet. They say there is no problem. It does not exist. These injuries are merely a coincidence in time, one right after another. The citizens of the world live with allergies, asthma, epilepsy, Bell’s Palsy, and autism as a consequence of theses coincidences. For some of them, their immune systems never recover from the injuries. They never had a fighting chance. There was no informed consent.
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<p>Guess what causes these imaginary waves of illness? Well, Robyn doesn't actually specify - so let's go on and see if we can guess what she thinks it is…</p>
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Imagine living in a world where, if a doctor dares to delve into a controversial subject matter– a topic that might bring forth a hypothesis to perhaps explain why people are dying, children are suffering from brain injuries, and the population is sick for their entire lifetimes– that doctor is hauled before their licensing board and made to stand trial for over five months.
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<p>Ah - I see where we're going, and I'm sure you do too. She's basically trotting out the old Big Pharma / Cover up / Brave Maverick Doctor three legged pony that all Wakefield's apologists do. Of course you know what she thinks causes this - it's the vaccines. And she needs your help to support brave, put upon, victimised, persecuted Andrew Wakefield. I assume she's either fucking stupid or fancies the slimy, rubber lipped goon. Still, let's have a look at the rest of the site.</p>
<p>Oh look, a fundraising dinner! Joy! I like a good night out - I'll go. Oh, hang on, it's $250. $250 for a fish supper, a cake from a local bakery and a copy of Wakefield's spider swatter, "Callous Disregard" - you know, the one that's going for about $5 (new) on Amazon. Oh, and drinks. Now, I like a drink, but to make up the rest of the entrance fee in drinks, I'd have to get a shitload of beer inside me. At least if I did, I could look at Andrew Wakefield without throwing up. Possibly.</p>
<p>But there's more - for $750 I can sit at the same table as him and his fucking wife. Great - but for $750, I'd want to be able to personally tattoo "MR FRAUDYTROUSERS" an inch high in Cooper Bold Italic across his forehead.</p>
<p>The interesting difference between this fundraiser and the shit that Ed "Fucking Loser" Arranga does for him is that at least Arranga has the decency to pretend that his fundraising is to support Wakefield's legal actions. This is just to, y'know, <b>give fucking money to Wakefield</b>, to help him pay his pool cleaning bills and have the wisteria trimmed. Who the fuck does he think he is, a Tory MP?</p>
<p>Calm down Becky, calm down...</p>
<p><i>*Deep breaths, deep breaths*</i></p>
<p>Wakefield's actually written a couple of paragraphs for the site - a couple of paragraphs about "Mommy instinct". It's nauseating, it really is. Here - try this…</p>
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Once, at a hillside farmhouse in Andalucía, while I was out walking with our firstborn son, my wife Carmel was saying bedtime prayers with our second child, who was in bed with a fever. Halfway through the prayer, and without saying another word, she leapt up and flew downstairs, out of the house, and sprinted one hundred meters across the yard, and into the pool. Our eighteen month-old daughter Imogen had slipped silently out of the bedroom and had made it to the pool steps. She was one step away from drowning. In that crucial moment, her mother just knew.</p>
<p>Excuse me while I throw up. But hang on there - something just caught my eye. Carmel Wakefield <i>sprinted one hundred meters (sic) across the yard into the pool</i>? Wakefield holidays in a house with a hundred metre long yard, with a pool at the bottom of it? And he needs a fundraiser? Of course he does. If you're paying $250 / $750 for dinner in the same room as that repugnant man, you really are paying for his holidays to Andalucia, to a villa with a hundred metre yard and swimming pool. And you still think he's doing all this for the good of the children? No, it's all about Wakefield. It's always been all about Wakefield and the money. The money for Andrew Wakefield. And there are fucking idiots in the world like Robyn Hurd who believe otherwise.</p>
<p>Morons, morons. Again. Wakefield wanks for coins, and they fall for it. Again.</p>
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For the first time in history, a biologically plausible mechanism of action has been discovered linking a vaccine to a serious adverse event.
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<p>Reading the full article, it's clear that the two notorious anti-vax researchers who wrote the paper haven't found anything for Gardasil either, but it's so nice to have them admit that there's no mechanism for MMR or any other vaccine causing serious injury or autism. So why don't they tell Andrew Wakefield they now think he was talking shit, and could he fuck off a bit quicker please?</p>
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Repugnant anti-vaccine wingnut John Stone</a>
<p>John Stone (who is, as we're all well aware, a cock) has surpassed himself today. He's claiming that no-one should be vaccinated because Jimmy Savile was a paedophile. Or something. Actually, I haven't a fucking clue what point he's trying to make... Let me go back a little.</p>
<p>A few days ago, some knob by the name of John Gilmore posted a fairly standard load of shite at Age of Arseholery, trying to rev up its New Jersey readership into contacting their senator to stop a bill designed to tighten up "religious" exemptions for vaccines. According to Gilmore (and, for the purposes of taking the piss out of John Stone I have no idea, and indeed care less, whether he's right), </p>
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If S1759 is signed into law, it will require parents seeking a religious exemption to:<ul>
<li>Specify their exact religious tenets;</li>
<li>Explain the nature of the religious tenet or practice that is implicated by the vaccination;</li>
<li>Explain how administration of vaccines would violate, contradict, or otherwise be inconsistent with that tenet or practice;</li>
<li>etc etc…</li>
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You get the idea.
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<p>Now, to rational people, that might seem reasonable. If you're going to claim an exemption or benefit for anything, not just vaccines, on the basis of your religion, you should really be required to explain why your religion entitles you to that benefit - and to show that you really do follow that religion, and aren't just making it up. If I told my boss I needed to leave early on Fridays in Winter to get home before sunset because I'm Jewish, I think he'd want a bit of evidence - and he might start questioning the odd bacon sandwich here and there.</p>
<p>So why should it be any different for vaccines?</p>
<p>But I digress…</p>
<p>A commenter (who seems to have no axe to grind) has asked:</p>
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Which actual religions have a prohibition on vaccines?
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<p>It's a perfectly reasonable question, if a rather awkward one, as I don't think there is one. I thought the Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Scientists) did, but it seems not - more on that later.</p>
<p>As is to be expected, when faced with an awkward question that makes it through the micromesh that is Age of Autism's moderation policy, John Stone jumps in and starts flinging irrelevant words around.</p>
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Which actual religions prescribe vaccines? Most religions have ethical tenets and people could feel that these are being transgressed. Offering a child up to the scientistic belief systems surrounding vaccination might be one of way of transgressing your beliefs - a totemistic belief in dogma (Prophet Paul Offit).
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<p>Now my answer would be "most of them", as most religions are quite keen to, y'know, keep the faithful <b>alive</b>.</p>
<p>Stone then does the "science as religion" gambit, and even throws in a "worshipping false idols".</p>
<p>Still, it's about what you expect from Stone when faced with a question he either doesn't know the answer to, or the answer doesn't fit his beliefs.</p>
<p>Anyway, the rest of the echo chamber chimes in, suggesting that Christian Scientists don't vaccinate, and then just descending into irrelevant toss.</p>
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With much prayer and reflection I know God is on the side of saving our children from harm, I don't need a religious group to join in with my beliefs or to have my back.
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<p>See - fucking wingnuts, the lot of 'em.</p>
<p>Anyway, the poster of the original question, one John O'Neill pops up again, showing that Christian Scientists do not, as popularly believed, have a prohibition on vaccination, and - and this is the best bit - calling Stone out on his ridiculous comment.</p>
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John Stone - There are plenty things that no religions prescribe: Watching television, flying in aeroplanes, playing cricket - that isn't an argument to avoid them.
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<p>Stone then loses it completely, and sets off on one, likening the vaccine industry to ex-Radio 1 DJ and alleged paedophile Jimmy Savile:</p>
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There might not be specific prohibitions against television in most religions - Amish? - but that doesn't mean watching anything on television is alright. People might very well say certain television programmes were harmful to their children or harmful in general. In the UK we recently learnt that one of our most celebrated TV personalities was using his position to serially sexually abuse children, the disabled, the orphaned, the insane, maybe even the dead in industrial quantities, and even with the help of the Department of Health. Last year when he died he was accorded about the grandest public funeral since the Queen Mother, but with all the shows of big heartedness, the millions raised for charity he was all the time pursuing harm, sponsored and protected by the BBC, and much of the British establishment. It is now being seriously suggested that a paedophile ring was being operated from the cabinet office in No 10 Downing Street at an unspecified period. Personally, I never watched him deliberately, would switch off if I saw him, and actively the whole thing was as it turned out just a big pretext to pursue criminal harm to children and other vulnerable people.
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<p>Oh, my aching sides!! That's the stupidest thing he's ever said, and that's a high target.</p>
<p>So there you have it, John Stone says don't vaccinate because Jimmy Savile was a paedophile - and that's religious exemption, kids!</p>
<p>Or something.</p>
<p>I don't know about you, but I'm fucking convinced.</p>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-74427759228864873622012-10-04T10:17:00.001+01:002012-10-04T10:17:26.565+01:00Andrew Wakefield hoping to fill a shed<p>While Brian Deer is set to give a lecture in the Centennial Hall at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, explaining how Andrew Wakefield's fraud was uncovered, Wakefield himself has organised (or had organised for him by one of his metaphorical cock-sucking acolytes (Hi Ed!)) a meeting in a shed across the road in order to wank for coins and to bleat his innocence. This shed holds up to 40 people - the City of La Crosse website describes it thus:</p>
<p style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccc;">This cabin style shelter is located right next to the Myrick/Hixon Ecopark, as well as the Kid's Coulee Playground, and is great for any reuinon or get-together! The shelter includes a fireplace as well as 6 interior tables and 4-5 exterior tables. </p>
<p><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/10/04/science-is-quite-safe-from-your-pitiful-little-band/" target="_blank">Orac has a picture of the shed</a>. Trust me, as sheds go, it's quite a nice shed.</p>
<p>I expect they'll get about six people. Pathetic, isn't it?</p>
<div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-40043292202173531962012-09-26T08:54:00.001+01:002012-09-26T08:56:56.282+01:00Ed Arranga cements his "dickhead" tag
<p>If you look over to the right of this page - assuming you're reading it on a computer screen and not your brand new iPhone 5 (no, I can't afford one either) - you'll see a list of popular search terms for this blog. One of them is "Ed Arranga is a dickhead". Rather splendidly, judging by his recent spleen venting on Age of Autism, Mr Arranga (husband of proven liar Teri Arranga) seems intent on demonstrating the absolute truth of this statement.</p>
<p>Before I continue, let's consider two rather self-contradictory facts about Ed Arranga.</p>
<ol>
<li> He really hates the British.</li>
<li>He's desperate to suck MMR fraudytrousers ex-doctor Andrew Wakefield's cock. (Metaphorically. If Arranga's lawyers are reading this, you can put the sports car magazines down now.)</li>
</ol>
<p>Somehow, Arranga can hold both these views at the same time, despite Wakefield being, y'know, British. Mind you, clear thinking has never been one of Ed Arranga's strong points.</p>
<p>Let's take these one at a time.</p>
<p>Firstly, Ed wrote a piece in the comments section of Autism One's website;</p>
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Enjoy your haggis, blood pudding and tripe, Ms. Fisher-of-the-UK, and let the grownups get to work. This is America where we solve problems by listening to what people have to say. And, in a few years, we will again cross the Atlantic and save the U.K. from itself.<p>
<p>He followed this up with a remarkable piece of borderline racism on Age Of Autism, a piece so abysmal that even John "Cock" Stone called him out on it;</p>
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In the UK, one learns one’s place at an early age. It’s a stifling society with a rigid class system made up of the nobility and commoners; it hasn’t changed all that much in the last 300 years. Lords, dukes, earls, and sirs fill the top slots of industry, academia, and government, reminding everyone else of their betters.
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Creativity takes a back seat to etiquette, and etiquette flows from the top down. Manners, a stiff upper lip, and being proper are not mere courtesies – they are the life blood of British society. When creativity does make an appearance, it comes out sideways in that very British “Pink Floyd” or “Monty Python” way. The British know they are oppressed, and they scream at it or laugh about it. What they don’t do is challenge it.
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We have old-boy networks in the US, but nothing compared to the permanent insider track to power, money, and privilege bestowed by birth in the UK. The one word to describe Britain is “club.” Like the Cosa Nostra, the first rule is “omerta”: absolute silence and secrecy must be kept at all times.
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Challenging the status quo is an affront to the established order. When one is called “Lord This” or “Sir That” all his life, it creates pomposity – a breeding ground of arrogance. Something is right by virtue of you having done it. Multiply that a thousand times over and you have a taste of the arrogance of the upper class. Mere commoners are to know their place and to keep their mouths shut.
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<p>…to which Stone replied;</p>
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In my opinion if this is your idea of how to lead the autism movement, it is shameful, pointlessly divisive and embarrassing.
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…
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It must be said that the idea of Britain that you presented in your article belongs curiously to 50 years ago and its contemporary problems are entirely different.</p>
<p>There you have it. If even John Stone thinks you've made a cunt of yourself, you're in real trouble.</p>
<p>The second fact - wanting to (metaphorically) suck on Andrew Wakefield's shrivelled knob - is also demonstrable. Ed is the brains (and I use that word <b>very</b> loosely - if brains were e-coli, Ed Arranga would have difficulty soiling himself) behind Wakefield's wanking for coins operation, set up to fleece gullible morons of their last few dollars in order to keep Wakefield in the manner to which he's become accustomed (big house, sharp suits, fraudy trousers, that kind of thing) - although the stated aim is to fund his legal action against Fiona Godlee, Brian Deer and the BMJ. Yes, the one that was thrown out of court at the first hurdle. That one.</p>
<p>So, having established these two facts about Ed "Even John Stone Thinks I'm A Cunt" Arranga, why am I writing about him in such a fair and even handed manner?</p>
<p>Well, it seems that Brian Deer - the man who pointed out the lies and fraud in Andrew Wakefied's scaremongering study into MMR, gut problems and autism - is due to give a couple of lectures at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse in October. Ed doesn't like this one bit, and so launches into a fact-free, hate-fuelled rant at Mr Deer.</p>
<p>Let's look at some of his dribble.</p>
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Brian Deer – a liar, fraud, and former reporter for The Sunday Times of London
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<p>Hmm, Ed, I think you'll find that Brian Deer hasn't been shown to be a liar, or a fraud, and was in fact a freelance journalist who has worked for the Sunday Times (not the "Sunday Times of London" - just "The Sunday Times"). And isn't it writing like this, using words like "liar" and "fraud" which has got Andrew Wakefield into such a lather that you're fundraising for his court case? (Of course, the difference there is that Brian Deer backed up his claims with those oh so inconvenient little things called "facts" and "references")</p>
<p>He goes on.</p>
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Deer’s talks at La Crosse are a continuation of the misinformation campaign to destroy Wakefield and to deny his Lancet case series (here) that was published in 1998. Wakefield found bowel disease in children with autism spectrum disorder and raised questions about the safety of the MMR. </p>
<p>No Ed, it's not a misinformation campaign. Wakefield was shown to have faked his results and to have drawn inferences from his work that weren't justified. He was also found guilty of ordering non-medically indicated procedures on children for research purposes. He was subsequently struck off the medical register.</p>
<p>Wakefield <i>claimed to have found</i> a novel bowel disease - reviews of his work found no such thing. He raised unfounded questions about the safety of the MMR, and, assisted by a credulous media, caused vaccination rates to drop to such low levels that measles is now endemic in Britain once more - although that wouldn't worry you, would it?</p>
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The Deer-inspired, GMC-trumped-up charges and findings were so rotten and perverted that when the case finally got before a real judge, in a real court – the High Court of London – Justice Mitting overturned the findings.
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<p>No, he didn't. He found that Professor Walker-Smith (Wakefield's co-author) had been misled by Wakefield to the extent that he could have reasonably believed that he did have ethical approval for the work he was doing, and that that work was treatment rather than research. No findings against Wakefield have ever been overturned - in fact, he didn't appeal. While you'll no doubt claim that that's because his insurance didn't cover it, there's no evidence to show that - it's just a claim that John "Cock" Stone makes - and he seems perfectly well funded to pursue a legal case in America. (Except that's not why you're raising funds, is it Ed? It's so Wakefield can carry on living the life to which he feels entitled, and you, you gullable fool have fallen for his lies.)</p>
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By the time Judge Mitting blasted the GMC and Parliament began investigating and arresting Murdoch reporters,
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<p>You omit to point out that Brian Deer wasn't one of them, he's never been accused of illegal or unethical behaviour or information gathering techniques (apart from by your mates at Age of <s>Idiocy</s> Autism), has never been linked to phone hacking in any way, and, as far as I know, never worked for the News of the World, or anyone who has since being charged with regard to the phone hacking scandal. This is just a feeble attempt to smear by association - a tactic that your so-called "mate" John Stone has tried, and been made to look like a cock. (Funny that.)</p>
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Deer’s BMJ series created the intended frenzy. Finally an answer… well, not really an answer, but any questions about the autism epidemic could now be sidetracked by mainstream media into a “Blame Wakefield” mantra.
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<p>No - Deer's series unpicked most of the lies spread by Wakefield. All the media did was realise (mostly - there are still a few arseholes, mainly at the Daily Mail who believe him) that they'd been had, and that Wakefield was directly responsible for plummeting vaccination rates and the re-introduction of measles (like an endangered species) to Britain. They've never really fallen for the myth of an "autism epidemic", being, generally some way ahead of you and the morons at AoA when it comes to critical thinking skills. Probably in terms of walking-and-breathing-at-the-same-time skills too.</p>
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Some who’ve had the misfortune of meeting Deer describe him as reptilian and repulsive. Others would describe him in less flattering terms. Setting the sleaze factor aside, Deer’s legacy of slander and libel signify a far grimier, foul and filthy place than most of us would care to venture. Deer is the invention, the dark underbelly, the hideous caricature of those who deny an MMR-autism connection in order to protect themselves. He assuages the conscience of those without one, and scrubs clean the crime scene. Vicious and small, <b>Deer’s pious position is untenable and in short order he will be hunted to ground and brought to justice.</b></p>
<p>Now this is just descending into abuse. However, I'm not exactly one to chastise anyone for abuse, although accusing Brian Deer of slander and libel is pretty much a case of "pot, kettle, cunt". Your last sentence though Ed, (emphasis mine) to me seems to be a call for actual violence - using a phrase like "hunted to ground" while telling the world and his wife exactly where they'll be able to find Mr Deer sounds like incitement to violence to me. Should anything untoward happen to Mr Deer on his visit to the States, Ed, I think you might have some serious explaining to do.</p>
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Soon the full truth will be uncovered, revealing Deer for what he is. In January Dr. Wakefield filed a defamation lawsuit against Deer, the BMJ, and Fiona Godlee, its editor. Currently under review by the 3rd Circuit Court in Texas, the question before proceeding to trial is: Does Texas have jurisdiction? We are extremely confident the appeals court will rule in Dr. Wakefield’s favor within the next few months.</p>
<p>I'm sure it will. As I've said before, I don't know whether Mr Deer's a nice or a nasty person (and don't care), but as an investigative reporter, he's done us all a favour by revealing Wakefield's fraud, lies and deceit.</p>
<p>And you're confident that the appeals court will rule in Wakefield's favour? Um - if the appeal succeeds, all that means is that Wakefield will be able to have the case heard. It doesn't mean he's been vindicated in any way - he'll still be metaphorically crucified, and quite possibly have to pay damages to the BMJ, Ms Godlee and Mr Deer under Texas anti-SLAPP laws.</p>
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In court his testimony will doom the BMJ and himself, and open the floodgates of suppressed corruption.
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<p>Sorry, there's nothing I can say about this, other than "you sad, pathetic, deluded wanker, Arranga."</p>
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<p style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccc;">"Testing" on babies and animals is EVIL. The Federal Mafia Syndicates (CDC, NIH, FBI, CIA, AAP, AMA, APA, WHO, US army, navy, marines, ETC.) are members of the Illuminati whose objective is to enslave the world in a satanic plot to have a one world government. Save your children and stop vaccinating. Save your time and money and stop asking these government agencies for help.</p>
It turns out ioneskye runs a <a href="http://www.madcowprod.com/" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window, and contains a shitload of fucking stupid">blog</a> where he reveals the details of this satanic plot. Seems to me to be a bit of a shit plot if the main players are incapable of pushing him under a bus in order to stop him revealing all their secrets.
<br><br>What a fucking cock. This is the intellectual level of readership at AoA.
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<p style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 3px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 3px; PADDING-TOP: 3px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccc;">There is no escaping the ever increasing research coming out weekly, showing solid science connections behind environmental and vaccine injury causing autism.</p>
<p>Is there?? I've not bloody well seen it. So why on earth isn't Age of Autism publicising this research instead of "six degrees" style attacks on Paul Offit and pleas from Kent Heckenlively for readers to pray for an unnamed scientist at an unnamed institution who is being falsely accused of an undisclosed crime, by undisclosed science bullies? (That one was fairly quickly removed from the site - maybe Heckenlively's stepping too far off Planet Reality even for AoA, which is saying something)</p>
<p>Come on Teresa, show us the weekly solid science - and by that I don't mean the vague abstracts of unrelated gubbins that usually passes for science at AoA, I mean real science, actually studying a link between vaccines and autism, by reputable researchers (so no mates of Wakefield, Krigsman or the Geiers), and you can advance your case.</p>
<p>However, I suspect your weekly science has about as much grounding in reality as the stories in the fortnightly <a href="http://www.uniquemagazines.co.uk/WomenAndWeeklies-233670/Subscribe-To-In-the-Night-Garden-Magazine-Subscription" target="_blank" title="Opens in a new window">"In The Night Garden" magazine</a>* - hence your vague hand waving and flannelling.</p>
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<p style="font-size: 10px;">* - Although I've seen some of them on the telly, so they must be true. One up on Conrick's made up shite.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4154548573349610503.post-37727744881352294952012-07-12T09:27:00.000+01:002012-07-12T12:07:43.796+01:00Credible vaccine info sites<p>Not really my usual style, but a link to the World Health Organisation - <a href="http://www.who.int/immunization_safety/safety_quality/approved_vaccine_safety_websites/en/index.html" target="_blank">Vaccine safety web sites meeting credibility and content good information practices criteria</a> - a list of credible vaccine information sites.</p>
<p>Notice there's no JABS, Age Of Autism, Living Wisdom / AVN...</p>
<p><a href="http://www.who.int/immunization_safety/safety_quality/vaccine_safety_websites/en/index.html" target="_blank">The criteria for inclusion in the list are here.</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><div class="BPSDB">[BPSDB]</div></div>Beckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03802457584729144048noreply@blogger.com0