[This is part of a post I wrote to my CT "friends" on Facebook. It really bothers me that so few CT's even know the vaccine/autism study was a fraud, you know? I've got about 4 stubborn CT's on my current Facebook profile, and they're still talking about this as if vaccines are "bad", and it really ticks me off. A lot. So I wrote a blog about vaccines and fluoride (another strange CT), and sent them the link. I never heard back from any of them, which is fairly typical ~ Janet]
Re; Vaccines ~ The study linking autism to childhood vaccines was a hoax. Not just a hoax, but an elaborate, well orchestrated, deliberate hoax. Dr. Andrew Wakefield altered and/or misrepresented the case studies of the 12 subjects used in his 1998 study, and it was all a fraud. He’s been stripped of his medical license, and it’s impossible to gauge how much harm he’s done. “But Jenny McCarthy says a vaccine caused autism in her child!” Jenny McCarthy is not a scientist, and is a victim of a fraud. A fraud. A hoax. I wish she’d have the decency to read a few scientific papers and retract all of the harmful statements she’s made over the years, but I’m not holding my breath. I didn’t read any retractions of this bogus hoax that was so successfully propagated on many CT web sites, and in fact, I read that Infowars had Wakefield on their radio program a few months ago after he’d been stripped of his license to practice medicine. Yes, even after Wakefield and his cohorts were found to have deliberately falsified scientific data to perpetuate a massive hoax, a massive hoax that affected and still affects the lives of countless children, he was invited to be on Infowars radio. I’m sure that interview went well, seeing as how no one in the CT community ever reads anything scientific (consider that a direct challenge), and I’m sure there were no unpleasant questions asked of Mr. Wakefield. Oh, you might want to spread the word to your CT gatekeepers that since Mr. Wakefield’s license has been stripped from him, he is no longer a doctor, so he does not merit a “Dr.” before his name.