Re: Should You Get a Flu Shot?

"One of the world’s leading immunologists, Dr. Hugh Fudenberg"

In his own mind, maybe.

Fudenberg is possibly best known for having been a collaborator with Andrew Wakefield, the British doctor who was lead author of the now discredited Lancet study linking the MMR vaccine to autism (virtually all of Wakefield's co-authors backed away from the study after it was revealed that Wakefield had gotten huge sums of money from lawyers hoping to sue the British government over vaccine "injury"). Like Wakefield, Fudenberg's activities have also gotten him in trouble over ethics complaints:

"Dr. Fudenberg also happens to have been involved in some very dubious "treatments" for autism that led to some problems with his medical license. In November 1995, the South Carolina Medical Board concluded that Fudenberg was "guilty of engaging in dishonorable, unethical, or unprofessional conduct," and he was fined $10,000 and ordered to surrender his license to prescribe controlled substances (narcotic drugs). His medical license was also placed on suspension. In March 1996, he was permitted to resume practice under terms of probation that did not permit him to prescribe any drugs. His medical license expired in January 2004; and in March 2004, he applied to have it reinstated. However, after a hearing in which the Board considered a neuropsychatric report issued in 2003, Fudenberg agreed to remain in a "retired" status and withdrew his application for reactivation of his license."

Fudenberg has supposedly claimed he could cure autism using a treatment made from his bone marrow.


http://oracknows.blogspot.com/2005/12/bill-maher-anti-vax-wingnut.html



http://briandeer.com/wakefield/hugh-fudenberg.htm


Fudenberg apparently has had virtually no original research published since the 1980s, apparently around the same time he started going off the rails on vaccination.

Yeah, this is the guy we should believe about the flu vaccine. ;)