For those of you who have followed and appreciated Doctor Andy Wakefield's work on behalf of our children over the years, please keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers this week. I am including several recent articles about his upcoming hearing and the vaccine victim support for his work, a commentary from NVIC's Barbara Loe Fisher and a commentary by Dr. Sheri Tenpenny, and information how you can sign a petition showing your support for Dr. Wakefield. - DR]

'I wish the GMC could live a day in my life and see what I have seen'

http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2770999.ece 

The doctor who linked the MMR vaccine to autism appears before a disciplinary hearing this week. But for the families involved, the sentence is already life. Britain is running out of scientists but the star of 'Coast' wants to inspire a new generation. Her planned series on evolution could spawn a whole new species – the celebrity osteoarchaeologist

Published: 15 July 2007

Aimee was a happy, communicative baby for the first year of her life. "Then she was given the jab," says her mother, Christine Collinson. "She started burning up and stopped talking. From that day she was never our Aimee again."

Now Aimee is 17 years old but cannot wash, clothe or feed herself. She needs constant attention day and night, her bottom wiped and a band attached to her mother's wrist when they go out, to stop her running off.

When the frustration of being barely able to communicate gets too much, she lashes out. "Aimee was up early this morning, before four," says Christine. "She got upset. Hence the bruises." The marks on Christine's back and arms are real. She has more to say but the story she is going to tell – which takes an even more heart-breaking turn after the birth of a second child – cannot be true. Not if you believe the Department of Health. It says she is wrong to go on believing that her daughter developed severe autism as a result of being given the triple vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR).

"There is now overwhelming evidence that MMR does not cause autism," says the DoH in its official guidance and almost every medic and scientist in the country agrees, at least in public. Tomorrow, the one doctor who has been prepared to challenge this universal wisdom will appear before a disciplinary hearing which may lead to his being struck off.

It is nine years since Dr Andrew Wakefield raised doubts about MMR, suggesting it may be linked to bowel disease and – by extension – autism. His paper in The Lancet medical journal – and the media firestorm that followed – triggered one of the great public-health scares of modern times. Who should parents believe? The experts and officials who insisted Dr Wakefield was scaremongering? Or the lone doctor who said the needle might destroy their baby's chance of a healthy life?

For many the risk was too high. Vaccination rates have plummeted. In London, even now, nearly half of all five-year-olds have not had the MMR jab and its subsequent booster.

Alarmed health experts have warned many times that a deadly measles epidemic may follow. It never has and relentless government information campaigns have slowly regained the trust of some parents. And questions have been asked about Dr Wakefield's methods and his motives. Critics say he is a peddler of bad medicine and hope that the fears he has raised will now be killed off once and for all.

Tomorrow, Dr Wakefield faces the General Medical Council's Fitness to Practise panel in a hearing that could last several months. The long list of charges relate to a study on children which he carried out with colleagues at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London, and published in The Lancet in February 1998. Two of the five doctors involved have since distanced themselves from the findings. The other three will also appear at the hearing.

Among the allegations are that Dr Wakefield, Professor John Walker-Smith and Professor Simon Murch did not follow the guidelines laid down by the hospital's ethics committee; they carried out research for which they did not have approval; and they included young patients in their study who did not have the appropriate symptoms. They are also said to have carried out investigations that were not in the best interests of those patients, such as colonoscopies and lumbar punctures. Dr Wakefield is also accused of abusing his position of trust by taking blood from children at a birthday party in return for money. And he did not tell the editor of The Lancet he was involved in seeking a patent for a new vaccine, it is claimed.

It is alleged that Dr Wakefield gave advice to lawyers who were acting on behalf of children said to be damaged by MMR. He was receiving funds from the Legal Aid Board but did not tell his ethics committee, the GMC will hear. He is also said to have been "dishonest and misleading" in his dealings with the Board.

Dr Wakefield is now based at the non-profit Thoughtful House centre in Austin, Texas. He has chosen not to discuss the accusations ahead of the hearing but said last week: "My motivation is the suffering of children I've seen and the determination of devoted, articulate, rational parents to find out why part of them has been destroyed, why their child has been ruined." He could not be sure that MMR caused autism, "but the Department of Health can tell you with 100 per cent certainty that it doesn't ... and that concerns me greatly."

The number of autistic children is far higher than previously thought, it emerged last week. One child in 58 may have a related condition, believe researchers at Cambridge University. The previously accepted figure was one in 100. Professor Simon Baron Cohen of the Autism Research Centre, whose team discovered the high rate, does not believe it is due to the jab. "Evidence does not support the idea that the MMR causes autism," he says. The causes are a mystery, but many believe the neurological condition is genetic and the rise in cases is a result of better and wider diagnosis.

There have been 500 million MMR doses given in this country since the triple jab was introduced in 1988. Measles can kill, and used to do so in large numbers, but the World Health Organisation says that if 95 per cent of children are vaccinated "the herd" will be protected. Here the rate peaked at 92 per cent just before Dr Wakefield went public. The figure has crept up again, to 84 per cent.

Jabs, the parental support group formed in the early Nineties, claims there may be as many as 2,000 children affected by MMR – half with autism, the rest with brain damage and related conditions. "We are still getting loads of calls every day," says Jacqui Fletcher, who started the group with her husband, John, when their son, Robert, became sick after the jab. The 15-year-old has the mental age of a baby, and Jacqui has to sleep beside him to stop him choking when he has epileptic fits. "I know everyone thinks this is over," she says, "but it's not over when you have to live with it."

Jabs believes both the vaccine damage compensation scheme set up by the government and the legal aid system are weighted against MMR cases. At one stage there were 1,400 claims before the courts but there are now only two test cases left, which may be heard later this year. The lawyers will be watching the GMC closely.

"If Wakefield is struck off," says John Fletcher, "it will discourage any doctor from asking questions about the safety of vaccines and it will leave the policy making to the government and the pharmaceutical industry. Parents who complain will be disregarded, and the research on better treatment for these children will stop. That is unthinkable."

Government arguments for MMR have always been based on civic responsibility: the jab is the best way to protect society. Yes, there is a "very, very small risk" of some kind of reaction, as one expert put it last week, but that is the case with all vaccines. However, parents act primarily on behalf of their child, not society. For those who visualise a doctor hovering over their baby with a needle, the words "very, very small" can sound like a whisper, and the word "risk" like a warning shout.

That is how it seemed to Christine Collinson when her second child was born in 1992. Like his now autistic big sister Aimee, Richard had inherited a weak immune system. "There was no way I was going to have the jab again," says their 40-year-old mother, at home in Castleford, west Yorkshire, "but the specialist told me I was being irresponsible, the stories about MMR were scaremongering and my extreme views could result in Richard being brain damaged through measles."

So she allowed him to be injected. And watched in horror as he reacted in the same way as Aimee, becoming severely autistic. He is now 15, weighs 11 stone, but can talk only in babyish code. Christine says there are still good times, and she loves her "lovely kids" with a passion. But the guilt burns. "We could have saved Richard from all this, if only we had stuck to our guns."

She knows doctors would say it was coincidence, that autism often reveals itself around the same time as the jabs are given. She knows Dr Wakefield has serious questions to answer. But when Christine looks at her children and remembers the babies they once were, she says: "That man reported something that parents like me know in ourselves to be true. I wish the GMC could live a day in my life, and see what I have seen."

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NVIC e-news (June 25, 2007)

"....parents who believe their children's autism has been triggered by the [MMR] vaccine are planning to show their support for the doctor outside next month's disciplinary hearing in London. In addition, an online petition to demand the government and health organisations "stop investigating the doctors and start investigating the patients" has collected more than 4000 signatures. Campaigner Bill Welsh, president of the Edinburgh-based Autism Treatment Trust, claimed Wakefield was the victim of a "medical establishment witch-hunt". "Dr Wakefield listened to the parents about their children's disease, clinically investigated the children and reported what he found - where is the crime in that?" he said. "This trial undermines the possibility of any future independent scientific research that might challenge establishment policy." The petition, started by campaigner Nigel Thomas - who has two brothers diagnosed with autism - states: "I have seen first-hand their decline, seen them screaming in pain and I have seen how all but a handful of doctors repeatedly refused to investigate their problems, brushing off the family's concerns and leaving us helpless, like thousands of other families around the world." - Judith Duffy, Sunday Mail

"This is not just about MMR, not just about mercury in vaccines and in the end, not just about autism. This is about a public health disaster of gigantic proportions that will affect this generation and generations to come, and those responsible must be brought to account. It is about the refusal of mainstream medicine to accept the consequences of their actions. It is about the refusal to treat a condition that is becoming almost commonplace; a condition for which the medical profession is largely responsible; a condition whose existence the medical profession ruthlessly denies in the light of its culpability. From its first day and for its duration the GMC hearing will be a window on this world of deceit. My brothers and I will be outside the building on day one and we will not be standing alone. Be there with us if you can, but at the very least, sign this petition for us to present on the day." - Nigel Thomas, Author, "Autism: Stop the Deceit, Start the Treatment Petition

"A former Government medical officer responsible for deciding whether medicines are safe has accused the Government of "utterly inexplicable complacency" over the MMR triple vaccine for children. Dr Peter Fletcher, who was Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health, said if it is proven that the jab causes autism, "the refusal by governments to evaluate the risks properly will make this one of the greatest scandals in medical history". He added that after agreeing to be an expert witness on drug-safety trials for parents' lawyers, he had received and studied thousands of documents relating to the case which he believed the public had a right to see. He said he has seen a "steady accumulation of evidence" from scientists worldwide that the measles, mumps and rubella jab is causing brain damage in certain children. But he added: "There are very powerful people in positions of great authority in Britain and elsewhere who have staked their reputations and careers on the safety of MMR and they are willing to do almost anything to protect themselves." - Sue Corrigan, Daily Mail

"My son had the MMR jab a week after his first birthday and suffered the normal side effects connected with the vaccine. However, his symptoms persisted and got dangerously worse. "Within a week he had a purple rash and his whole body had swollen up like the Michelin Man. He wouldn't stop screaming, it was quite clear he wasn't well. It did die down but all his normal functions, like eye contact and dialogue he knew before, had gone since the jabs. While in Alder Hey Children's Hospital with his older sister, I noticed a poster on the wall about autism which listed the symptoms, and he had seven of the 10. It was then I made the connection between the MMR jab and autism." Donna was referred to Rhuddlan Children's Centre and a consultant psychologist confirmed her son was autistic."- Samantha Castle, North Wales Weekly News

Barbara Loe Fisher Commentary:

In a few weeks, Andrew Wakefield, M.D., will be defending himself against charges of professional misconduct lodged against him by British physicians running the General Medical Council of England. At the heart of the matter is the medical establishment's fury at Dr. Wakefield for daring to publish an hypothesis in the Lancet in 1998 that provided clinical evidence for an association between MMR vaccine, intestinal bowel disease and autism. Subsequently, Dr. Wakefield suggested that some genetically vulnerable children might be unable to handle being injected with three live attenuated viral vaccines at once, pointing out that children rarely are simultaneously infected with wild type measles, mumps and rubella infections in nature.

Andrew Wakefield has steadfastly resisted pressure from government, medicine and the pharmaceutical industry to halt his research into autistic enterocolitis and the possible links between childhood vaccinations, intestinal inflammation and autism. That refusal to stop investigating the potential biological mechanisms for vaccine-induced autistic enterocolitis has made him a target for those determined to make an example out of him. Like individuals who are persecuted for holding different ideological, religious or political beliefs from those in power, Dr. Wakefield is being persecuted for taking a scientific position that does not conform with the majority of those operating or profiting from the global mass vaccination system.

It is sad to watch physicians devour one of their own out of ignorance, envy, greed and fear. The people of the world are witnessing this Great Inquisition. They will not forget the martyrdom of a physician, one of the brightest and best, who discovered a link between vaccination and regressive autism and did what he could to heal affected children and prevent others from suffering their fate.

Many parents of vaccine injured children - regardless of which biological mechanism was involved in their children's vaccine-associated regression into autism - support the pioneering work of Andrew Wakefield and his right to pursue his scientific investigation without being persecuted.

Mark Blaxill, co-founder of SAFEMINDS, said: "I'd like to urge you all to take a moment and to visit the petition site and sign the statement of support for Andy Wakefield. Andy has been a pioneer in autism treatment, leading the way in finding ways to diagnose our children's medical problems and to improve their health and development. Because he had the courage to question the established modalities of current public health programs (suggesting parents split the MMR vaccine and spread out its administration) and the safety of a combination vaccine (the MMR), he has been unfairly attacked, ruthlessly sanctioned, driven from his job and his home and declared a pariah by the scientific and medical establishment of the UK. Looking back on this episode, history will judge this reaction harshly. But in the meantime, things may get worse. Andy has been summoned to appear before the General Medical Council of England. There is a chance he will be struck from the medical register as punishment for his courageous actions.

"I can think of no one who deserves such treatment less than Andy Wakefield. Indeed, Andy deserves praise and accolades for his work. He stands for a model of personal conduct to which other clinician/scientists should aspire. He treats his patients with compassion and their parents with respect. He listened to the families of autistic children when no one else did. He led rigorous scientific investigations into the nature of the gastrointestinal inflammation that so many of us have observed in our children. He made the scientific case for the biomedical approach to autism treatment when the field was only just emerging and needed the scientific rigor he brought to the work. He persevered in the face of obstacles that few other scientists would have endured. And he has done all of these things with unfailing good grace, an open and generous spirit and without rancor or bitterness."

To read and sign the petition supporting Andrew Wakefield, M.D., go to

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/GMC/.

No donation is necessary when signing the petition, which originates and is being maintained in Britain.

Parents rally in support of doctor facing misconduct charge over MMR-autism

Wakefield's GMC hearing scheduled for next month

Sunday Mail
June 17, 2007
by Judith Duffy, Health Correspondent

http://www.sundayherald.com/display.var.1477577.0.0.php?utag=27167 

Parents of autistic children are planning a demonstration in support of the doctor at the centre of the MMR controversy, when he is summoned for a disciplinary hearing next month.

The Sunday Herald has learned that Dr Andrew Wakefield - who first suggested a link between the triple jab for mumps, measles and rubella, and autism and bowel disease - is due to appear before the General Medical Council (GMC) on July 16.

His research, published in 1998, led to widespread public fears about the safety of the vaccine and triggered a decline in MMR immunisation levels across the UK. Prime minister Tony Blair was even drawn into the row after consistently refusing to reveal whether his son Leo, now seven, received the jab.

Wakefield, who is now working in America, has faced widespread criticisms over the claims, with subsequent studies failing to confirm the link. In late 2004, the GMC launched an inquiry into allegations of serious professional misconduct against him and two former colleagues.

But parents who believe their children's autism has been triggered by the vaccine are planning to show their support for the doctor outside next month's disciplinary hearing in London.

In addition, an online petition to demand the government and health organisations "stop investigating the doctors and start investigating the patients" has collected more than 4000 signatures.

Campaigner Bill Welsh, president of the Edinburgh-based Autism Treatment Trust, claimed Wakefield was the victim of a "medical establishment witch-hunt".

"Dr Wakefield listened to the parents about their children's disease, clinically investigated the children and reported what he found - where is the crime in that?" he said. "This trial undermines the possibility of any future independent scientific research that might challenge establishment policy."

The petition, started by campaigner Nigel Thomas - who has two brothers diagnosed with autism - states: "I have seen first-hand their decline, seen them screaming in pain and I have seen how all but a handful of doctors repeatedly refused to investigate their problems, brushing off the family's concerns and leaving us helpless, like thousands of other families around the world.

"The only doctors who were prepared to help are now on trial whilst the children are denied basic investigations."

A spokesman for the GMC told the Sunday Herald that there would be a hearing involving Wakefield "in the near future", but insisted he could not confirm the date. He added that the exact charges which were being brought against the doctor would only be revealed at the start of the hearing.

Health officials have consistently maintained that MMR is safe and latest figures show that confidence in the jab is returning. However, vaccination rates across Scotland are still around 3% below the 95% target.

A government spokeswoman said MMR was the safest, most effective way of protecting children.

"The uptake of the MMR vaccination remains at a higher level than in recent times, but we will continue to monitor the level of immunisation," she added.

But many parents still harbour doubts. A Sunday Herald investigation last year revealed that thousands of children in Scotland have received single jabs for measles, mumps and rubella in recent years, with parents paying hundreds of pounds at private clinics because they are not available on the NHS.

Louise Tollin, from East Kilbride, thinks MMR led to her child being diagnosed with autism in 2004. She said four-year-old Christopher showed no signs of problems until he received the vaccine, when he "began to regress before her eyes".

"Christopher was born normal, I am 100% sure about that," she said. "He got the MMR at the beginning of June and by the end of the month he had stopped responding to his name."

She added: "I think the government knows exactly what is going on and it is all being swept under the carpet."

THE NIGEL THOMAS PETITION

AUTISM: STOP THE DECEIT: START THE TREATMENT

My name is Nigel Thomas and I am petitioning on behalf of my two brothers and many thousands of children and young adults worldwide. These youngsters are physically ill, and in almost all cases are being refused treatment; most have also been refused adequate educational provision and those who are now approaching adulthood face a life of uncertainty and continued suffering. Most regressed into autistic-like disorders in early childhood.

Whilst experts argue about whether the catastrophic rise in the rates of Autism Spectrum Disorders is due to better diagnosis, better services or maybe even watching television, children continue to suffer. At the same time a growing body of evidence of environmental contributions to these conditions continues to be systematically and ruthlessly discredited.

The reason these youngsters are ignored is that many of their parents have dared to attribute their condition to environmental exposures such as childhood vaccines. Some of the very few medical professionals offering hope have been summoned to appear before the UK General Medical Council (GMC) in July this year. This is the body which regulates UK medical practice and it has the power to prevent a doctor practising at all. The threat that faces Dr Andrew Wakefield, Professor John Walker Smith and Professor Simon Murch is that they may be struck-off the medical register for daring to investigate why these children are so ill, which no-one else has been prepared to do.

The GMC hearing, currently scheduled for the 9th July this year, will be a highly publicised event which many see as an opportunity for the truth to be aired. Others believe the outcome may already be pre- ordained. Whichever is the case, the parents, brothers, sisters, friends, neighbours and professionals who know these children have decided that enough is enough.

My mother has a letter from Sir Liam Donaldson, the UK Chief Medical Officer, suggesting that the "disorders of bowel habit" suffered by many of these children ".... may reflect the eating habits that some autistic children have" rather than an underlying bowel condition. Despite Sir Liam's view, the underlying bowel condition suffered by many children with autism has frequently been confirmed, on biological testing, to reflect inflammation in bowel tissues containing vaccine strain measles virus. In his letter to my mother Sir Liam points out that he is unable to comment on "details of particular children". I can. As a brother of two children with significant bowel problems and autism, I have seen first hand their decline, seen them screaming in pain, and I have seen how all but a handful of doctors repeatedly refused to investigate their problems, brushing off the family's concerns and leaving us helpless, like thousands of other families around the world. The only doctors who were prepared to help are now on trial whilst the children are denied basic investigations.

This is not just about MMR, not just about mercury in vaccines and in the end, not just about autism. This is about a public health disaster of gigantic proportions that will affect this generation and generations to come, and those responsible must be brought to account. It is about the refusal of mainstream medicine to accept the consequences of their actions. It is about the refusal to treat a condition that is becoming almost commonplace; a condition for which the medical profession is largely responsible; a condition whose existence the medical profession ruthlessly denies in the light of its culpability. From its first day and for its duration the GMC hearing will be a window on this world of deceit. My brothers and I will be outside the building on day one and we will not be standing alone. Be there with us if you can, but at the very least, sign this petition for us to present on the day.

We are not asking for the moon on a stick, but we are demanding that governments and health organisations worldwide stop investigating the doctors and start investigating the patients.

SIGN THE PETITION : STOP THE DECEIT: START THE TREATMENT

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/GMC/

Former Science chief: 'MMR fears coming true'

Daily Mail
March 22, 2006
by Sue Corrigan

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A former Government medical officer responsible for deciding whether medicines are safe has accused the Government of "utterly inexplicable complacency" over the MMR triple vaccine for children.

Dr Peter Fletcher, who was Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health, said if it is proven that the jab causes autism, "the refusal by governments to evaluate the risks properly will make this one of the greatest scandals in medical history".

He added that after agreeing to be an expert witness on drug-safety trials for parents' lawyers, he had received and studied thousands of documents relating to the case which he believed the public had a right to see.

He said he has seen a "steady accumulation of evidence" from scientists worldwide that the measles, mumps and rubella jab is causing brain damage in certain children.

But he added: "There are very powerful people in positions of great authority in Britain and elsewhere who have staked their reputations and careers on the safety of MMR and they are willing to do almost anything to protect themselves."

His warning follows reports that the Government is this week planning to announce the addition of a jab against pneumococcal meningitis for babies, probably from next April. It is also considering flu jabs for under- twos - not to protect the children, but adults they may infect.

In the late Seventies, Dr Fletcher served as Chief Scientific Officer at the DoH and Medical Assessor to the Committee on Safety of Medicines, meaning he was responsible for deciding if new vaccines were safe.

He first expressed concerns about MMR in 2001, saying safety trials before the vaccine's introduction in Britain were inadequate.

Now he says the theoretical fears he raised appear to be becoming reality.

He said the rising tide of autism cases and growing scientific understanding of autism-related bowel disease have convinced him the MMR vaccine may be to blame.

"Clinical and scientific data is steadily accumulating that the live measles virus in MMR can cause brain, gut and immune system damage in a subset of vulnerable children," he said. "There's no one conclusive piece of scientific evidence, no 'smoking gun', because there very rarely is when adverse drug reactions are first suspected. When vaccine damage in very young children is involved, it is harder to prove the links.

"But it is the steady accumulation of evidence, from a number of respected universities, teaching hospitals and laboratories around the world, that matters here. There's far too much to ignore. Yet government health authorities are, it seems, more than happy to do so."

'Why isn't the Government taking this massive public health problem more seriously?'

Dr. Fletcher said he found "this official complacency utterly inexplicable" in the light of an explosive worldwide increase in regressive autism and inflammatory bowel disease in children, which was first linked to the live measles virus in the MMR jab by clinical researcher Dr.

Andrew Wakefield in 1998.

"When scientists first raised fears of a possible link between mad cow disease and an apparently new, variant form of CJD they had detected in just 20 or 30 patients, everybody panicked and millions of cows were slaughtered," said Dr. Fletcher.

"Yet there has been a tenfold increase in autism and related forms of brain damage over the past 15 years, roughly coinciding with MMR's introduction, and an extremely worrying increase in childhood inflammatory bowel diseases and immune disorders such as diabetes, and no one in authority will even admit it's happening, let alone try to investigate the causes."

He said there was "no way" the tenfold leap in autistic children could be the result of better recognition and definitional changes, as claimed by health authorities.

"It is highly likely that at least part of this increase is a vaccine related problem." he said. "But whatever it is, why isn't the Government taking this massive public health problem more seriously?"

His outspokenness will infuriate health authorities, who have spent millions of pounds shoring up confidence in MMR since Dr. Wakefield's 1998 statement.

But Dr. Fletcher said the Government is undermining public confidence in vaccine safety by refusing to do in-depth clinical research to rule out fears of MMR damage to children.

He added that the risks of brain and gut damage from MMR injections seem to be much higher in children where a brother or sister has diabetes, an immune disorder.

We don’t have to? Does that mean Merck makes the rules about the MMR? Does that mean Merck can defy the research? One thing was certain: The good doctor had poked a stick in the eye of an unfriendly giant named Merck. The giant joined forces with his powerful buddies in the Public Health Department and British National Health Service. Together, they worked every angle to ensure that any connection between the MMR vaccine and autism would not be accepted.

At the close of his speech, Andy directly addressed the conference speakers and the activist parents in the room. He chose his words carefully and delivered them with laser focus. He asserted that those who work tirelessly to expose the truth about vaccines are the last hope for seriously ill, vaccine-injured children. “We must continue,” he said, “no matter how difficult the road, no matter how serious the consequences. We must fight for these children….because if we put down the flag and surrender when the going gets a little bit tough, who else will do it? Who will dare pick up the torch and carry it forward if we quit? There will be no one...no one. And the next generation of children…and the next…will be forever lost.” The profoundness of his words hung in the air; there was no movement for a very long time. Each person knew, unequivocally, he spoke the truth. One by one, the hands came together. The applause crescendoed to a roaring, well-deserved standing ovation.

That night in Dallas was in November, 2003. The dogged determination of many to expose the truth about vaccines is beginning to make a difference. The world is waking up as the problems are no longer anomalies. Parents are questioning the once-size-fits-all vaccination policies dictated by the minions of pharma. Moms and dads are standing firm, resisting the pressure from White Coats to vaccinate. They are refusing to inject their precious babies with more than 100 vaccine antigens prior to kindergarten. They are deciding that their children can be healthy with plenty of sleep, exercise, clean hands, fresh water, and good food.

Whistleblowers and brave hearts are more often executed than honored for their courage. By refusing to recant his scientific findings to save his license to practice medicine, Dr. Wakefield is facing the tyranny of medical power. Barbara Loe-Fisher, co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, described it this way: “The spectacle this British Medical Inquisition is creating for the world to see will have repercussions far beyond the martyrs it will make. People are not stupid and they will not soon forget that medical doctors inside and outside of the British government so feared one man's scientific discovery about vaccination that they felt they had no choice but to destroy him and anyone who stands with him.”

Keep up the good work, Andy. Your bravery is an inspiration to all of us to continue to warn others of the real culprit behind the global autism epidemic. Thanks to your steadfast determination, parents are wiser and children are healthier. To thousands around the world, you are our hero.

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[1] Adams, Stephen. “New Fears Over MMR Link to Autism,” The Telegraph UK. July 8, 2007. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/08/nautism108.xml 

[2] The World Fact Book. United Kingdom. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/uk.html 

[3] Wakefiled, AJ, Murch SH,Anthony A et al. Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. Lancet 351:637-641.1998.

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