Re: proof

The study presented here previously in the journal Pediatrics, which supplied more evidence against a vaccine-mercury-autism link, was not funded by industry. There are plenty more good studies available to anyone with an inquiring mind. The overwhelming majority of these studies refute the claimed link and support the safety of vaccination.

For a striking example of unethical "research", check out the scandal over the paper published by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues in the Lancet in the 1990s, which purported to find a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. It was later discovered that Wakefield had taken out a patent on a new vaccine (which he thought would make him pots of money) while challenging the existing one. PLUS, his group had accepted a huge sum of money (in the hundreds of thousands of British pounds) from a lawyers organization hoping to sue the government over alleged vaccine injuries. The co-authors of Wakefield's group backed away from his study, and he was brought up on ethics charges.


http://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-summary.htm


Speaking of slimy ethics, read this interview with Dr. Geier. He's the antivax hero quoted here earlier, who claims that thimerosal in vaccines has caused autism, and who believes in chemically castrating autistic children with the pharma drug Lupron, as well as giving them prescription chelating drugs to "remove mercury". Geier speculated on the potential market for his "treatment" methods in this interview in 2005:

"We’re talking about potentially hundred of thousands to millions of kids. And, you know, the effort to do this — you’d have to have as many treatment centers as we have McDonald’s, you’d have to have, you know, a level like the moon program."


http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/106/desperation-time


Sounds like Geier is drooling over the potential in drugging kids and falsely raising the hopes of their parents, while profiting from his useless therapies.

The evidence for the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, as well as the greed and bad Science of the antivaxers is convincing, but one must have an open mind and be willing to discard old prejudices and urban legends about immunization.
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