Re: DOCTOR Andy Wakefield is like REAL-JOURNALIST Julian Assange: crucified for telling the truth. That Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt on September 7, 2019, 10:11 am, in reply to "Re: DOCTOR Andy Wakefield is like REAL-JOURNALIST Julian Assange: crucified for telling the truth. That "
Hi john. I'm not up on the details of andrew wakefield much at all, but i do remember that the MMR controversy here was at least as much about the decision to combine M M and R and not to allow single jabs on the NHS if parents chose. This seemed to be a commercial decision made by the blair government, as they'd apparently already purchased loads of stocks of MMR when the scandal broke; and blair wouldn't even confirm that his own children had the combined jab (he probably went private to have the single jabs, like some of the better off parents i knew did). My anger about MMR at the time was about this political/commercial decision seeming to override a parental choice that arguably would have helped maintain the numbers of vaccine take-up by taking the sting out of the scandal. You didn't have to be an 'anti-vaxxer' to have these suspicions, although by the time the wakefiled scandal had played out, it was difficult to avoid the association. I'm not an anti-vaxxer, though as someone with history of severe vaccine injury in my family (due to poorly made vaccine), i resent my caution being assumed to be lack of critical thinking, as much as i resent the lack of critical-thinking and poor arguments of some of the dimwits populating the anti-vaxxer stuff i have read online.
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