Andrew Wakefield: Autism Inc
I’ve had this article on my computer for years, along with 10,000 other files, and forgot the importance of it as it lays everything out. Monetizing misery… Non-Stop. Wash rinse repeat, wash rinse repeat, wash rinse repeat. These shysters have been at this monetizing crap forever, just twisting it a little bit for the mindless masses. There’s just so much data out there, unless you really follow each and every piece, it’s hard to see…
Andrew Wakefield’s ‘dishonest and irresponsible’ research into the causes of autism led to his being struck off by the General Medical Council. That would have ended most doctors’ careers. Instead, the MMR ‘martyr’ moved to the US – and into reality TV.
For three days at the end of January, the Renaissance hotel in Washington DC fills up with television executives from around the world. The Realscreen Summit is where the makers of reality TV gather to discuss ideas, negotiate deals and discover the next Apprentice or I’m A Celebrity. Among the estimated 2,200 people who had paid up to $1,600 (£1,050) this year to try to snag face time with an exec from Freemantle, TLC, Discovery or National Geographic was an Englishman in his mid-50s wearing jeans, a crisp, white shirt and loafers, and carrying a MacBook. On his badge were the words “Autism Team”.
This man’s pitch was a reality TV series about autism, and he had a short trailer on his laptop: an autistic child screams; another bites his mother’s hand; another repeatedly and violently slams a book against his head. Then a narrator tells us that “every day across the world, medical symptoms of hundreds of thousands of people with autism are being ignored”. Cue piano music and the titles, The Autism Team: Changing Lives…
Read the complete article at TheGuardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/06/what-happened-man-mmr-panic
Brian Deer is a British investigative journalist who has extensively reported on the controversy surrounding the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine. He conducted an investigation into the research conducted by Andrew Wakefield, a former British doctor who published a now discredited study claiming a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Deer’s findings revealed serious ethical violations and conflicts of interest in Wakefield’s research, leading to the retraction of the study and the removal of Wakefield from the medical register. Brian Deer has been a prominent figure in debunking the myth of a vaccine-autism link and advocating for evidence-based medicine in relation to vaccines.
