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Do you believe in coincidences?
Last month I received an email from Mrs Bridget Wakefield, mother of Dr Andrew Wakefield. It turns out she lives in Bath, my home town, the birthplace of A Better Way, and very close to the World Health Assembly offices. She asked if she could meet us.
As I set off on foot to find Mrs. Wakefield, many thoughts were racing through my mind: Who was she? What did she want from me? How had she managed to survive so many years of relentless demonization of her son?
Mrs Wakefield, a lively but frail woman, greeted me with a warm smile. We quickly struck up an easy conversation and I learned that she is now 93, a retired doctor, a mother of five and a grandmother. During her working years, Bridget used her maiden name and was known as Dr Bridget Matthews when practising as a general practitioner in Bath and Gloucestershire to the north. Bath is Bridget’s home town and as a young GP she felt fortunate to have been appointed to a solo practice in the Royal Crescent. Given her extensive medical experience, we discussed what it meant to be a GP in the ‘old days’. Highly hands-on, Bridget particularly enjoyed the home visits and deliveries that were commonplace in the not so distant past.
Andrew's father, Dr Graham Wakefield, was a consultant neurologist at University College Hospital, London, but after two years of only being able to spend weekends with his family, he left this position to come to Bath so that his family could be together. Winning the highly sought-after job from 26 other applicants, Dr Graham Wakefield worked in the neurosurgery centres at the Royal United Hospital, Bath (where I still have an honorary contract, by the way) and Frenchy Hospital, Bristol. According to Mrs Wakefield, they spent 50 truly happy years in Bath.
Andrew was the second son, and Mrs. Wakefield told me that he was president of the boys' club at King Edward School in Bath and captain of the rugby team. He was one of those kids who got things done and never caused his parents any trouble. On the contrary, they were always very proud of him. This was a story I could relate to. I was an all-rounder too; conscientious, good at studying, good at sport, captain of squash and never caused my parents any trouble. So, strangely, I suddenly felt like I knew him. How painful it must have been for this mother and father, a dedicated and respected doctor, when their beloved son was accused of professional misconduct.
A report from Andrew's school rugby coach stated:
Under his captaincy the team enjoyed great success. He set a great example of discipline, sportsmanship and attitude on and off the field. I can only thank him from the bottom of my heart. He is one of the best players I have ever known and certainly one of the best players King Edward School has ever produced.
What was Dr. Andrew Wakefield's “crime”?
In 1998, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine and Histopathology at the Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine, Lancet His colleagues praised him as follows: Ileal lymphadenopathy, nonspecific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children.
Dr Wakefield's specialty is inflammatory bowel disease, and the paper reports on a case series of 12 children with developmental disabilities whose mothers also described a range of intestinal symptoms that developed soon after their children's vaccinations.
Wakefield's co-authors included specialists in psychiatry, histopathology, radiology, and gastroenterology. The researchers carefully compiled their findings in a paper and then came to their cautious conclusions. (Emphasis added)
We identified chronic enteritis in children. May It may be associated with neuropsychiatric disorders. In most cases, the onset of symptoms occurred after vaccination against measles, mumps, or rubella. Further investigation is needed to determine the association between this syndrome and this vaccine..
As a medical researcher who first read the paper without all the hubris of 1998, I can state with certainty that the conclusions of this group of experts were entirely appropriate. More research was really needed. Words like “may” and “possibly” suggest a high level of uncertainty about causation among researchers. At a press conference afterwards, Wakefield suggested that it might be wise to use a single vaccine rather than multiple doses of the vaccine. MMR I believe that people should receive the DTP vaccine until this is ruled out, but this seems like common sense to me both as a doctor and as a mother.
As a mother or father, wouldn’t you like to know about the concerns of Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues?
If there is even the slightest chance that a medical intervention could harm a child, especially if it is to prevent an infection that may not occur anyway, I would rather not do it. What do you think?
I have three children, all of whom received the childhood vaccination schedule recommended at the time. I had never questioned the efficacy or safety of vaccines until Gardasil. With regards to Gardasil, I did not understand why three injections were required, and considering the increase in chronic diseases among teenagers, I decided not to vaccinate my youngest child with this particular vaccine. In retrospect, I think I was beginning to become anxious about vaccines…
I began to have questions. Why do we need so many vaccines, and is it safe to give multiple vaccines at the same time? What studies have been done on this? Furthermore, are childhood infections really so dangerous? I'm sure women and men of my generation and older remember being taken to measles, rubella and chickenpox “parties” to “infect” themselves with childhood infections. It was well known that contracting these infections in childhood was preferable to contracting them in adulthood, as the course of the disease was usually very mild.
Developmental disabilities and inflammatory bowel disease are common conditions in my children and others their age, and I wish I had paid attention to Dr. Wakefield's concerns when I was raising my young children. Like autism, rates of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis have skyrocketed over the past 30 to 40 years, yet health authorities have paid little attention to the causes of this phenomenon.
Since then, university professors and other scientists have published studies showing that childhood vaccination schedules are associated with serious health effects, but drug regulators and pharmacovigilance agencies around the world continue to ignore them. Additionally, some studies, such as this paper published in 2021, provide evidence that casts doubt on the safety of childhood vaccination schedules. Lyons Weiler and Thomas,continuation Subject of revocation.
In 2020/21 Professor Brian Hooker and Dr Neil Miller study When comparing the health status of vaccinated and unvaccinated children, vaccinated children were found to have significantly higher rates of developmental delays, asthma, gastrointestinal disorders, and ear infections. Health effects of vaccinated and unvaccinated childrenPublished in Translational Science Journalprobably, DOI link Is it useful for you? The reference is 10.15761/JTS.1000459.
In any case, a book detailing the powerful arguments against childhood vaccinations will be published soon, so we will let you know when it is released. Be prepared for a barrage of fear-inducing and polarizing “anti-vaccination” propaganda in the media.
So why is Dr Andrew Wakefield being vilified?
At the time Wakefield's study was carried out, the UK government had just drawn up plans to vaccinate every child under the age of five across the country with the MMR vaccine, and Andrew asked to postpone his vaccination until there was assurance it was safe, but was told this was not possible.
According to Mrs Wakefield, a freelancer: The Sunday Times A reporter named Brian Dear lashed out at Andrew, saying he was “as if he was being told to take down the guy who was trying to disrupt the vaccine program.” Amazingly, Dear is still pursuing Andrew, and in 2020 he published a book about the award-winning investigation that destroyed a doctor's career. The book is titled: The doctor who fooled the world It is published by John Hopkins University Press, a university notorious for its coronavirus pandemic. Vaccine Tracker Other coronavirus-related activities.
The timing of Dear's book being published in the same year as the COVID vaccine is very strange. Was this to let us all know what happens when those with the powerful pen and corporate media powers declare doctors who are interested in vaccines “anti-vaxxers”?
A Dear reviewer described Andrew Wakefield as “One of the darkest figures of our time (…)Wow, there are so many options for truly evil villains!
Perhaps Dear's alter ego will be found in his new suspense novel. Blind TrialWhat was the inspiration for this fictional story about silencing doctors who uncovered fraud in vaccine trials? According to the blurb, it was:Sexy and smart A man with questionable morals is sent on a special mission. (…) Retaining physicians At the trial's flagship clinical center quiet“The author certainly seems to be an expert on the subject of “ethical challenges” faced by pharmaceutical minions tasked with “special assignments.” How sexy and smart is he?
How to silence ethical doctors
The demonisation of Dr Andrew Wakefield by the corporate media has been relentless and continues to this day. Andrew's expert hearing lasted three years and the British Medical Association was hell-bent on finding him guilty. somethingIn the end, heCallous Ignorance For kids”.
However, the parents of the children who were allegedly so callously neglected disagreed and sought to set the record straight. They wrote the following letter, concluding with the following (emphasis in original):
We believe that these doctors Any Complaints Any About Parents Any Of the children reported Lancet paper.
