MMR expose - Dispatches programme (apologies not strictly Homeopathy)
Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 2:20 pm
At 01:13 PM 11/14/2004 -0000, you wrote:
Yes, I've seen it.
Andrew warned me but I had no idea the extent and I don't think he has
either. I've emailed him and waiting (he's probably in US and still asleep).
But he is in a huge bind due to the legal aspects of the previous situation
and he can't speak totally freely yet.
This is ABSOLUTELY not true and I will give you Andy's statement as soon as
I have it.
And the attack on Dr. Fudenberg..........sick.............
People in the so-called media can lie and suffer NO consequences.
Brian Deer vowed to 'get' Wakefield, years ago, in front of witnesses
If George Bush and the cabal and Tony B-Liar can lie they way they have,
why can these people.
The world is getting sicker and sicker.
Sheri - see below...............The Times, the trash newspaper equal to the
Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFrien ... 23,00.html
November 14, 2004
MMR scare doctor planned rival vaccine
Brian Deer
THE doctor whose work provoked a worldwide scare over MMR failed to reveal
that he was developing his own commercial rival to the vaccine.
It has emerged that a patent was filed on behalf of Dr Andrew Wakefield for a
measles vaccine and other products that would have stood a better chance of
success if public confidence in MMR’s safety was undermined.
Wakefield now faces criticism that he should have declared the conflict of
interest when he announced a possible link between MMR and childhood autism.
Since then there has been a decline in the number of children inoculated
with the
vaccine for mumps, measles and rubella.
An investigation by The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches programme
has
found that Wakefield and the medical school of the Royal Free hospital,
London, where he worked, made a series of applications to patent
measles-related
products. The first was filed at the Patent Office nine months before
Wakefield’
s press conference in February 1998.
Three months after the conference, Wakefield was named as the inventor on a
follow-up document trying to patent a “measles virus vaccineâ€. Although
he
never produced a vaccine, the fact that he was planning a rival to MMR while
casting doubt on its safety has raised concern.
“I think a lot of parents will be very angry,†said Dr Michael
Fitzpatrick,
a north London GP and pro-MMR campaigner who has an autistic son.
Discovery of the plans follows revelations by this newspaper in February that
Wakefield’s research on MMR had begun with a commission from solicitors
attempting to sue vaccine manufacturers.
The patent application papers detail products aimed at preventing, even
curing, diseases allegedly caused by MMR, the vaccine against measles,
mumps and
rubella.
They included a rival vaccine for measles. At the time the products appeared
to have little chance of commercial success in Britain given the dominance of
MMR and the confidence in its safety.
The first application was lodged by the Royal Free on June 5, 1997 and two
were filed on June 4, 1998 — after the press conference at which
Wakefield, a
mid-rank academic and surgeon, unleashed the scare.
According to the paper by Wakefield and 12 other researchers, the Royal Free
had seen 12 children in a few months. In eight cases their parents claimed
the
children had developed autism within days of an MMR shot.
However, the paper failed to make it clear that the children were not a
random sample. Instead, Wakefield’s MMR research had first been
commissioned by
solicitors suing the vaccine manufacturers.
Nor did Wakefield or the study disclose another conflict of interest: the
Royal Free’s plans for its MMR-related products, in which Wakefield was a
participant. One application was for a “pharmaceutical composition for
treatment of
MMR virus mediated disease†and which “may be used as a measles virus
vaccineâ€
.
Wakefield also failed to disclose plans for such a rival product when he
questioned whether it was safe for MMR to combine three vaccines. In a
publicity
video distributed by the Royal Free, he says: “My feeling is that the
risk of
this syndrome (autism) developing . . . is related to the combined vaccine,
the
MMR, rather than the single vaccines.â€
While Wakefield was under no legal or professional obligation to disclose the
patent, campaigners believe his attack on MMR may have been viewed
differently had it been known.
Professor Ian Bruce, a molecular biologist who once worked with Wakefield,
said: “It’s something that should have almost certainly been made
public before
now.â€
Wakefield and the medical school also tried to patent treatments for
inflammatory bowel disease and what they called “regressive behavioural
diseaseâ€, or
autism. Wakefield claimed that the MMR injection caused an inflammatory bowel
disease and could lead to brain damage.
One of the applications dated June 1998 claims that it is “not only most
probably safer to administer to children by way of
vaccination/immunisation, but
which also can be used to treat regressive behavioural disease, whether as a
complete cure or to alleviate symptoms.â€
The product was to be made by a process involving the measles virus, the
white blood cells of mice and goats’ milk.
Professor Tom MacDonald of Southampton University, Britain’s pre-eminent
gut
immunologist, described the recipe as “total bollocks†when he was
shown it
last week. None of Wakefield’s products appears to have progressed much
beyond
the concept stage.
A clue to the eccentricity of the science may lie in its links to Professor
Hugh Fudenberg, an immunologist from South Carolina. The idea of transferring
cells from animals was largely his and he is listed as a co-inventor in the
patent documents. Fudenberg is also cited in Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet
paper for a
1996 study in which he claims to have “fully normalised†the autistic
patients of a neurologist. That neurologist now calls Fudenberg “a
complete quackâ€.
Fudenberg also sells a “cure†for autism, which he prepares in his
kitchen
using his own bone marrow. But Wakefield took him seriously, inviting him to
his London home and offering a £60,000 partnership.
Last week the Royal Free denied any conflict of interest. It said it had
never attacked MMR and had dissociated itself from Wakefield’s comments
on the
vaccine. Wakefield declined to comment because of the investigation into his
research by the General Medical Council and the possibility that he may
take legal
action.
“Mr Wakefield has been in the past and will hopefully again be happy to
discuss these important issues,†his lawyers said.
Brian Deer’s investigation is on Dispatches, Channel 4, Thursday, 9pm
--------------------------------------------------------------------
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Well Within & Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours (worldwide)
Vaccination Information & Choice Network
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
homeopathycures@tesco.net
ONLINE Introduction to Homeopathy Classes
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Yes, I've seen it.
Andrew warned me but I had no idea the extent and I don't think he has
either. I've emailed him and waiting (he's probably in US and still asleep).
But he is in a huge bind due to the legal aspects of the previous situation
and he can't speak totally freely yet.
This is ABSOLUTELY not true and I will give you Andy's statement as soon as
I have it.
And the attack on Dr. Fudenberg..........sick.............
People in the so-called media can lie and suffer NO consequences.
Brian Deer vowed to 'get' Wakefield, years ago, in front of witnesses
If George Bush and the cabal and Tony B-Liar can lie they way they have,
why can these people.
The world is getting sicker and sicker.
Sheri - see below...............The Times, the trash newspaper equal to the
Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFrien ... 23,00.html
November 14, 2004
MMR scare doctor planned rival vaccine
Brian Deer
THE doctor whose work provoked a worldwide scare over MMR failed to reveal
that he was developing his own commercial rival to the vaccine.
It has emerged that a patent was filed on behalf of Dr Andrew Wakefield for a
measles vaccine and other products that would have stood a better chance of
success if public confidence in MMR’s safety was undermined.
Wakefield now faces criticism that he should have declared the conflict of
interest when he announced a possible link between MMR and childhood autism.
Since then there has been a decline in the number of children inoculated
with the
vaccine for mumps, measles and rubella.
An investigation by The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches programme
has
found that Wakefield and the medical school of the Royal Free hospital,
London, where he worked, made a series of applications to patent
measles-related
products. The first was filed at the Patent Office nine months before
Wakefield’
s press conference in February 1998.
Three months after the conference, Wakefield was named as the inventor on a
follow-up document trying to patent a “measles virus vaccineâ€. Although
he
never produced a vaccine, the fact that he was planning a rival to MMR while
casting doubt on its safety has raised concern.
“I think a lot of parents will be very angry,†said Dr Michael
Fitzpatrick,
a north London GP and pro-MMR campaigner who has an autistic son.
Discovery of the plans follows revelations by this newspaper in February that
Wakefield’s research on MMR had begun with a commission from solicitors
attempting to sue vaccine manufacturers.
The patent application papers detail products aimed at preventing, even
curing, diseases allegedly caused by MMR, the vaccine against measles,
mumps and
rubella.
They included a rival vaccine for measles. At the time the products appeared
to have little chance of commercial success in Britain given the dominance of
MMR and the confidence in its safety.
The first application was lodged by the Royal Free on June 5, 1997 and two
were filed on June 4, 1998 — after the press conference at which
Wakefield, a
mid-rank academic and surgeon, unleashed the scare.
According to the paper by Wakefield and 12 other researchers, the Royal Free
had seen 12 children in a few months. In eight cases their parents claimed
the
children had developed autism within days of an MMR shot.
However, the paper failed to make it clear that the children were not a
random sample. Instead, Wakefield’s MMR research had first been
commissioned by
solicitors suing the vaccine manufacturers.
Nor did Wakefield or the study disclose another conflict of interest: the
Royal Free’s plans for its MMR-related products, in which Wakefield was a
participant. One application was for a “pharmaceutical composition for
treatment of
MMR virus mediated disease†and which “may be used as a measles virus
vaccineâ€
.
Wakefield also failed to disclose plans for such a rival product when he
questioned whether it was safe for MMR to combine three vaccines. In a
publicity
video distributed by the Royal Free, he says: “My feeling is that the
risk of
this syndrome (autism) developing . . . is related to the combined vaccine,
the
MMR, rather than the single vaccines.â€
While Wakefield was under no legal or professional obligation to disclose the
patent, campaigners believe his attack on MMR may have been viewed
differently had it been known.
Professor Ian Bruce, a molecular biologist who once worked with Wakefield,
said: “It’s something that should have almost certainly been made
public before
now.â€
Wakefield and the medical school also tried to patent treatments for
inflammatory bowel disease and what they called “regressive behavioural
diseaseâ€, or
autism. Wakefield claimed that the MMR injection caused an inflammatory bowel
disease and could lead to brain damage.
One of the applications dated June 1998 claims that it is “not only most
probably safer to administer to children by way of
vaccination/immunisation, but
which also can be used to treat regressive behavioural disease, whether as a
complete cure or to alleviate symptoms.â€
The product was to be made by a process involving the measles virus, the
white blood cells of mice and goats’ milk.
Professor Tom MacDonald of Southampton University, Britain’s pre-eminent
gut
immunologist, described the recipe as “total bollocks†when he was
shown it
last week. None of Wakefield’s products appears to have progressed much
beyond
the concept stage.
A clue to the eccentricity of the science may lie in its links to Professor
Hugh Fudenberg, an immunologist from South Carolina. The idea of transferring
cells from animals was largely his and he is listed as a co-inventor in the
patent documents. Fudenberg is also cited in Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet
paper for a
1996 study in which he claims to have “fully normalised†the autistic
patients of a neurologist. That neurologist now calls Fudenberg “a
complete quackâ€.
Fudenberg also sells a “cure†for autism, which he prepares in his
kitchen
using his own bone marrow. But Wakefield took him seriously, inviting him to
his London home and offering a £60,000 partnership.
Last week the Royal Free denied any conflict of interest. It said it had
never attacked MMR and had dissociated itself from Wakefield’s comments
on the
vaccine. Wakefield declined to comment because of the investigation into his
research by the General Medical Council and the possibility that he may
take legal
action.
“Mr Wakefield has been in the past and will hopefully again be happy to
discuss these important issues,†his lawyers said.
Brian Deer’s investigation is on Dispatches, Channel 4, Thursday, 9pm
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Classical Homeopath
Well Within & Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours (worldwide)
Vaccination Information & Choice Network
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
homeopathycures@tesco.net
ONLINE Introduction to Homeopathy Classes
ONLINE Introduction to Vaccine Dangers Classes
Voicemail US 530-740-0561 UK phone from US 011-44-1874-624-936