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Apr. 14th, 2008 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynFrom BBC News Online: MMR doctor admits ethics failing
This is the guy who first said ‘hey, you know how there’s a combined vaccine that’ll protect your kids from measles, mumps, and German measles? IT MIGHT MAKE THEM AUTISTIC’. Apparently, he thought it was perfectly okay to take blood samples from kids at a birthday party in exchange for money and parental permission. And that it was okay for him to advise lawyers for parents who were looking to sue someone over possible damage to their kids without telling the Lancet, which is the journal where he made his accusations about the vaccine, that he was being paid by and working with the people who had a vested interest in the MMR vaccine being labeled as Bad.
Sir, if you’re going to make an accusation about an aspect of modern medicine, kindly do it the right way. Make sure your science is sound, and keep the politics out of it. Otherwise you’re only damaging your case- which wasn’t that great in the first place.
This is the guy who first said ‘hey, you know how there’s a combined vaccine that’ll protect your kids from measles, mumps, and German measles? IT MIGHT MAKE THEM AUTISTIC’. Apparently, he thought it was perfectly okay to take blood samples from kids at a birthday party in exchange for money and parental permission. And that it was okay for him to advise lawyers for parents who were looking to sue someone over possible damage to their kids without telling the Lancet, which is the journal where he made his accusations about the vaccine, that he was being paid by and working with the people who had a vested interest in the MMR vaccine being labeled as Bad.
Sir, if you’re going to make an accusation about an aspect of modern medicine, kindly do it the right way. Make sure your science is sound, and keep the politics out of it. Otherwise you’re only damaging your case- which wasn’t that great in the first place.
