New essay: The Great Pretender (brian deer)

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Dear Friend,

Over the last couple of weeks Deer has had the help of the British

Medical Journal (BMJ) and its editors to landscape the grave of Dr

Wakefield. In two articles he has repeated his seemingly endless claims

that the 12 children referred to the Royal Free Hospital and cited by 13

authors in the 1998 case review paper, were not ill and suffered no

adverse reaction from their MMR vaccination.

Deer,

the only man in the world to make a formal complaint against Wakefield,

claims that it was solely Wakefield who concocted the story about over

1,000 children's vaccine damage. Wakefield's motive has not until now

been clearly spelt out. In his second BMJ article Deer claims that

Wakefield was motivated partly by ego but mainly by money. Central to

Deer's thesis, is the claim that the parents of damaged children lied to

their GP's about the condition of their children � so that they could

reap the profits of legal claims against pharmaceutical companies.

Although the scientific struggle goes on, especially in the US, to prove

environmental causes of autism and the lack of safety trials of MMR in

particular, in the UK all research and litigation has come to a grinding

halt because of the corrupt power of corporations, the absence of ethical

standards amongst professionals and the frightening lack of care

practiced by successive governments.

To my

mind the only solution to this situation is political, someone or

somebody has to come forward to organise an in-depth enquiry in the UK

� to break through the miasma of corruption � that has shrouded the

case of Dr Wakefield over the last two decades.

For my

part, in my writing I keep forcing the issue of conflict of interests and

vested interests, especially in the case of the main players in this

lamentable saga. Deer's two articles in the BMJ, together with my still

crystallising view that he is without doubt the principle actor in this

farrago, has led me to write another essay about his primary role in the

character assassination of Dr Wakefield. As with my last essay, this

one, (30 pages) is for sale at �3 on my web site, and I will be

very grateful to anyone who buys or distributes it or convinces others to

buy or distribute it.

* * *

My latest book Overthrowing the

Temple: Loic Le Ribault and his development of organic silica, will

be out at the end of February, however, Slingshot will only have 100

copies to sell through my web site because the majority of these

books will go to the US. Although the most of the money accruing from

sales of these books will go back to funders, it would be good if

Slingshot could recoup a small amount from their sales; so please promote

this book if at all possible. I have attached a PDF of the cover to give

you an idea of what the book is about.

Here is the introduction to my latest essay about Deer, The Great

Pretender please scatter news of it far and wide.

The

Great Pretender

Deer's Wakefield

Soap Opera

J MA.

Oh yes

I�m the great pretender (ooh ooh)

Pretending that I�m doing well (ooh ooh)

My need is such I pretend too much

Oh yes I�m the great pretender (ooh ooh)

Adrift in a world of my own (ooh ooh)

Too real is this

feeling of make believe

Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal

Buck

Ram

[1]

With

the growth of corporations and democracy there came

a vast growth in corporate propaganda as a means of defending

corporate interests against democracy.

Carey

[2]

Without a story to explain ourselves we are nothing.

Tariq

Miah

[3]

Speaking to a well regarded European writer the other day, I heard the

words, 'But Deer came from nowhere, he is not a journalist of any note,

he is not really a journalist is he?' hearing this and other remarks, it

can only be described as unfortunate that neither those who question

vaccine safety or those of us who have campaigned for vaccine damaged

children have made no real attempt to investigate Deer's contact

with the pharmaceutical industry. On occasions I have been disturbed by

the off-the-cuff allegations and ad hominem attacks made against

Deer, this is not because he is not the most loathsome of characters but

because without real investigations and properly constructed evidence we

will never be able to free ourselves from the lingering foul smell which

emanates from his presence in this conflict.

Although the rebuttal of Deer's latest two deceitful articles in the

British Medical Journal

(BMJ)

[4]

have been interesting, few of them

have added any new information about Deer or shed light upon the

relationship which has existed between him and the conglomerate that is

now GlaxoKline. I believe that the key to Deer's continuing

pathological character assassination of Dr Wakefield lies

principally in his relationship with the original drug company the

Wellcome Foundation and its partnering Trust, before the Trust was made

independent and the Foundation was amalgamated first with Glaxo, then

eventually merged as GlaxoKline (GSK).

I

began my involvement with the parents of vaccine damaged children in 2006

knowing slightly more about Deer than many other

people.

[5]

In 1993, I published 'Dirty Medicine:

Science, big business and the assault on natural

health'.

[6]

This book which took me five years to

research and write told the story of the beginnings of the

pharmaceutical, medical and allopathic lobby organisations in Britain and

the US. These groups emerged in the late 1980s at the centre of the last

great medical controversy over the Wellcome Foundations production and

marketing of the drug AZT.

This

conflict was perhaps even bigger than that presently being waged over

vaccine damage. Deer then writing for the Sunday Times,

wrote two very critical articles about the safety of AZT and the lack of

science that accompanied trials of the drug. The drug company, the

Wellcome Foundation and it's massive grant giving partner, the Wellcome

Trust, were powerful enough to rain relentless pressure on the Sunday

Times and it's editor Neil to ensure that Deer was admonished for

his radicalism and Deer appeared to be sent to the US for a period to

cool off. Deer's return to the UK, appeared to coincide with a further

authoritative attack on the Wellcome Empire, accompanied with a parallel

attack on Septrin, the anti-bacterial a Wellcome drug that had caused

many deaths and countless thousands of adverse reactions.

I

interviewed Deer for Dirty Medicine because of his expose of the lack of

safety data on AZT Deer was then a hero of the anti-AZT campaign. I found

him a not unpleasant interviewee, though somewhat dour and cynical,

perhaps as well a little scared as we all were facing the might of an

increasingly immoral pharmaceutical sector whose motto might have been

'anything goes'. Deer also had about him that contained and dark look of

the post-university new left that was on the rise in the late nineteen

eighties and early nineties and which included groups like the now

neo-liberal Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP).

I had

no contact with Deer until after the publication of my book. On his

return from the US, he broke off contact with me by way of an abusive

phone call. I had the distinct impression then I had been relegated to

his past life. What had actually changed for him was difficult to

discern, although one thing became clear with time. Although his stance

against the errors of pharmaceutical companies and bad drugs, appeared to

be more or less solid, he had definitely enlisted in the Wellcome-backed

and the National Health Service (NHS), Labour Party based generic

campaign in favour of mass vaccination. Contrary to what most

commentators seem to believe now, by the mid-nineteen nineties, long

before the attempt to destroy Wakefield, Deer with the aid

of the Sunday Times, was deconstructing the case of vaccine damage

claimants.

The

following essay looks at Deer over the period between 1989 and 2007, a

period that leaves serious unanswered questions about the direction of

Deer's life and work. It is my hope that in the future an investigative

journalist of some standing or an official inquiry will unravel in

greater detail the enigma of Deer's relationship with the pharmaceutical

industry. It might, however, be to our advantage to build upon the

following essay when writing about him in the future, rather than

reinvent the wheel again next time he pops his head out of his warren.

Presently our 'movement' appears to lack cohesive and integrated

knowledge about 'the enemy', upon which we might build. I would be happy

to add more referenced information to this essay, so developing it as an

authoritative source of information about Deer. If they wish,

anyone sending in substantial information to add to the essay, can be

credited on the title page.

* *

*

Deer was studying for a Philosophy degree at the university of

Warwick when in April 1975 a sit-in began. Deer was charged with breaking

broke one of the windows in the senate House building so that students

intent on occupying, could gain

access.

[7]

The occupation was about increased

rents for campus accommodation and Deer as an ex-member of the student

executive committee and a radical was the first students to gain access

to the Senate House building. Following the occupation a few students,

including Deer were charged and stood 'trial' before the University

Council, although found guilty, on appeal in 1976 the decision was

reversed and no further action was taken against the defendants.

Warwick University came into being in1965. In its first few decades of

life, its students were heavily involved in protest, rent strikes, and

occupations which earned the University the nickname of 'Red Warwick.'

The student body in the late 1970s, at Warwick, had extensive links with

the emerging Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) led by a sociology

lecturer at the University f Kent. After a Labour party election victory

in 1997, members of this 'revolutionary communist party' were to join up

with Liberal Democrat Lords to manage the biggest UK lobby organisations

on behalf of international pharmaceutical companies.

Having

left Warwick Deer first became press officer and magazine editor for the

leftist Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). While with

CND, he was also active within

the libertarian community of north London and with a number of other

promising young writers and reporters who set up The

Leveller,

[8]

a magazine that

became notorious when it

challenged the Official Secrets Act. In the early eighties Deer joined

the Times and then moved on to the Sunday Times for which he has

written ever since.

When Deer joined the Sunday

Times Britain still had a relatively

sceptical

[9]

investigating journalistic culture.

The Sunday Time in particular, although a liberal paper seemingly

having no specific argument with government or corporations, had become

famous throughout the 1970s, for their far reaching investigation into

the iatrogenic tragedy of Thalidomide and the avoidance of responsibility

by its producing

companies.

[10]

The Times had also been well

regarded for their ground breaking expose of the massive Scotland Yard

corruption scandal that swept through Londons CID, the vice squad and

then the robbery squad between the 1960s and

1980s.

[11]

At the

Sunday Times in the early eighties, Deer found himself on the crest of a

consumer wave, investigating various products and social situations, on

his web site he describes himself as the first 'Social Affairs' reporter.

Deer was good at his job, he had a congenial but serious

personality and an ability to

mix with people on the margins and write about them in a sympathetic

manner. In 1989, however Deer,

still campaigning for consumers, met a major career crisis.

Many

commentators on the subject of the development of corporate power,

consider that the most profound change in media culture occurred in the

early 1990s when, initially, in the battle to develop and market drugs

for AIDS related illness the pharmaceutical industry moved in to control

research and University research funding in particular. Somewhere between

Thalidomide and MMR, science and particularly medical science put itself

in hock to the pharmaceutical

industry.

[12]

* * *

J is an

investigative writer who has written several books about aspects of the

medical industrial complex. He started focusing on conflict of interest,

intervention by pharmaceutical companies in government and patient groups

in 1993. Over the last four years he has been a campaign writer for the

parents of MMR vaccine damaged children,

covering every day of the three year hearing of the General Medical

Council that tried Dr Wakefield and two other doctors. His GMC accounts

can be found at

www.cryshame.com, and

his own website is,

www.slingshotpublications.com

..

The rest of The Great

Pretender a 30 page essay can be obtained from 's web site at:

http://slingshotpublications.com

at a minimum cost of

�3.00/ $4.00. Around 10 other essays written over the period of the GMC

hearing can also be obtained from the Slingshot website.

The two volumes of

Silenced Witnesses, written by the Parents and edited by

can also be obtained from his web site. All money from these books goes

to the parents organisation Cry Shame. Vol II comes with a free copy of

Alan Goldings film Selective Hearing.

Selective Hearing can

also be seen for free

on viddler here

http://www.viddler.com/explore/ziggy/videos/1/

or youtube here

Anyone with with an

interest in showing or distributing this film should contact Alan through

the Slingshot website.

[1]

First recorded by The Platters

1955

[2]

Carey. Taking the Risk out

of Demcracy. University of Illinois Press. 1997.

[3]

The character Tariq Miah inThe

Disappeared. M. R. Hall. Macmillan 2010. Great Britain

[4]

Secrets of the MMR scare, part

1: how the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed. BMJ 2011;

342:c5347 doi: 10.1136/bmj.c5347 (Published 5 January 2011),

Secrets of the MMR scare, part 2: How the vaccine crisis was meant to

make money. BMJ 2011; 342:c5258 doi: 10.1136/bmj.c5258 (Published

11 January 2011)

[5]

Much of what I knew I published

in my essay The Complainant. Although this essay was spread quite

widely, I found that little of it sank into the culture around the

'Wakefied case' and that which did was often quoted without reference by

those intent on inventing the wheel over and again. One of my twice

weekly reports on the three year GMC hearing of which I attended every

day except one, 'Journalist with no medical training solves mystery of

enterocolitis!' that reports on the matter of the prosecution claiming

that the children in the Lancet paper were not ill can be read at:

http://www.wellsphere.com/autism-autism-spectrum-article/journalist-with-no-medical-training-solves-mystery-of-enterocolitis/1082282

while my whole episodic

report over three years can be read at:

http://www.cryshame.com

[6]

J . Dirty

Medicine: Science, big business and the assault on natural health.

Slingshot Publications. 1993. e-copies of the book are available

from:

http://www.slingshotpublications.com

..

[7]

Fox (born 1960), a

leading RCP and Living Marxism (LM) participant and one of the founder

members of the Institute of Idea funded by Pfizer. With her older sister

of

Fiona

Fox, one of the founder members of the Science Media Centre,

she attended

University

of Warwick, where she graduated with a lower second class degree

(2:2) in

literature.

Fox believes in freedom of speech in all circumstances � except those

involving Dr Wakefield!

[8]

The Leveller was a British

political magazine, c.1976 to 1982, collectively produced by a shifting

coalition of radicals, socialists, marxists, feminists, and others of the

British left and progressive movements.

[9]

Sceptical is the English

spelling of this word, if I use Skeptical, I am referring to the US group

which developed out of CSICOP and which is now one of the most

powerful pharmaceutical lobbies.

[10]

It is instructive to

compare Deer's biography with this one of Knightley who

was the first author of the Insight team's book Suffer the

Children

about their Thalidomide investigation. Special correspondent for The

Sunday Times for twenty years (1965-85) and one of the leaders of its

Insight investigative team, he was born in Australia but has spent most

of his life in Britain. He was twice named British journalist of the year

(1980 and 1988) and won the Overseas Press Club of America award in 1975

for the best book on foreign affairs, a history of war reporting and

propaganda called The First Casualty. He has lectured on

journalism, law and war at various British and American universities and

for the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Royal Military

Acadamy, Sandhurst. He was twice named Journalist of the Year (1980 and

1988) in the British Press Awards--apart from Pilger, the only

journalist ever to have won it twice, and the Overseas Press Club of

America award for the best book on foreign affairs in 1975 (The First

Casualty)

[11]

The Fall of Scotland Yard,

Barry , Shirley and Short. Penguin. 1977

[12]

See Marsa, Prescription

for Profits: How the pharmaceutical industry bankrolled the unholy

marriage between science and business. Chapter 9 tells what happened to

Duesburg when he voiced his scientific conclusions about

HIV.

Dear Friend,

Over the last couple of weeks Deer has had the help of the

British Medical Journal (BMJ) and its editors to landscape the

grave

of Dr Wakefield. In two articles he has repeated his

seemingly

endless claims that the 12 children referred to the Royal Free

Hospital and cited by 13 authors in the 1998 case review paper,

were

not ill and suffered no adverse reaction from their MMR

vaccination.

Deer, the only man in the world to make a formal

complaint against Wakefield, claims that it was solely Wakefield

who

concocted the story about over 1,000 children's vaccine damage.

Wakefield's motive has not until now been clearly spelt out. In his

second BMJ article Deer claims that Wakefield was motivated partly

by

ego but mainly by money. Central to Deer's thesis, is the claim

that

the parents of damaged children lied to their GP's about the

condition of their children — so that they could reap the profits

of

legal claims against pharmaceutical companies.

Although the scientific struggle goes on, especially in

the US, to prove environmental causes of autism and the lack of

safety trials of MMR in particular, in the UK all research and

litigation has come to a grinding halt because of the corrupt power

of corporations, the absence of ethical standards amongst

professionals and the frightening lack of care practiced by

successive governments.

To my mind the only solution to this situation is

political, someone or somebody has to come forward to organise an in-

depth enquiry in the UK — to break through the miasma of

corruption — that has shroouded the case of Dr Wakefield over the

last two decades.

For my part, in my writing I keep forcing the issue of

conflict of interests and vested interests, especially in the case

of

the main players in this lamentable saga. Deer's two articles in

the

BMJ, together with my still crystallising view that he is without

doubt the principle actor in this farrago, has led me to write

another essay about his primary role in the character assassination

of Dr Wakefield. As with my last essay, this one, (30 pages) is

for

sale at £3 on my web site, and I will be very grateful to anyone

who

buys or distributes it or convinces others to buy or distribute

it.

* * *

My latest book Overthrowing the Temple: Loic Le Ribault and his

development of organic silica, will be out at the end of February,

however, Slingshot will only have 100 copies to sell through my web

site because the majority of these books will go to the US.

Although

the most of the money accruing from sales of these books will go

back

to funders, it would be good if Slingshot could recoup a small

amount

from their sales; so please promote this book if at all possible. I

have attached a PDF of the cover to give you an idea of what the

book

is about.



Here is the introduction to my latest essay about Deer, The Great

Pretender please scatter news of it far and wide.

The Great Pretender

Deer's Wakefield Soap Opera

J MA.

Oh yes I’m the great pretender (ooh ooh)

Pretending that I’m doing well (ooh ooh)

My need is such I pretend too much

Oh yes I’m the great pretender (ooh ooh)

Adrift in a world of my own (ooh ooh)

Too real is this feeling of make believe

Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal

Buck Ram[1]

With the growth of corporations and democracy there came

a vast growth in corporate propaganda as a means of defending

corporate interests against democracy.

Carey[2]

Without a story to explain ourselves we are nothing.

Tariq Miah[3]

Speaking to a well regarded European writer the other day, I heard

the words, 'But Deer came from nowhere, he is not a journalist of

any

note, he is not really a journalist is he?' hearing this and other

remarks, it can only be described as unfortunate that neither those

who question vaccine safety or those of us who have campaigned for

vaccine damaged children have made no real attempt to investigate

Deer's contact with the pharmaceutical industry. On occasions

I

have been disturbed by the off-the-cuff allegations and ad hominem

attacks made against Deer, this is not because he is not the most

loathsome of characters but because without real investigations and

properly constructed evidence we will never be able to free

ourselves

from the lingering foul smell which emanates from his presence in

this conflict.

Although the rebuttal of Deer's latest two deceitful

articles in the British Medical Journal (BMJ)[4] have been

interesting, few of them have added any new information about Deer

or

shed light upon the relationship which has existed between him and

the conglomerate that is now GlaxoKline. I believe that the

key

to Deer's continuing pathological character assassination of Dr

Wakefield lies principally in his relationship with the

original drug company the Wellcome Foundation and its partnering

Trust, before the Trust was made independent and the Foundation was

amalgamated first with Glaxo, then eventually merged as

GlaxoKline (GSK).

I began my involvement with the parents of vaccine

damaged children in 2006 knowing slightly more about Deer than many

other people.[5] In 1993, I published 'Dirty Medicine: Science, big

business and the assault on natural health'.[6] This book which

took

me five years to research and write told the story of the

beginnings

of the pharmaceutical, medical and allopathic lobby organisations

in

Britain and the US. These groups emerged in the late 1980s at the

centre of the last great medical controversy over the Wellcome

Foundations production and marketing of the drug AZT.

This conflict was perhaps even bigger than that

presently being waged over vaccine damage. Deer then writing

for the Sunday Times, wrote two very critical articles about the

safety of AZT and the lack of science that accompanied trials of

the

drug. The drug company, the Wellcome Foundation and it's massive

grant giving partner, the Wellcome Trust, were powerful enough to

rain relentless pressure on the Sunday Times and it's editor

Neil to ensure that Deer was admonished for his radicalism and Deer

appeared to be sent to the US for a period to cool off. Deer's

return

to the UK, appeared to coincide with a further authoritative attack

on the Wellcome Empire, accompanied with a parallel attack on

Septrin, the anti-bacterial a Wellcome drug that had caused many

deaths and countless thousands of adverse reactions.

I interviewed Deer for Dirty Medicine because of his

expose of the lack of safety data on AZT Deer was then a hero of

the

anti-AZT campaign. I found him a not unpleasant interviewee, though

somewhat dour and cynical, perhaps as well a little scared as we

all

were facing the might of an increasingly immoral pharmaceutical

sector whose motto might have been 'anything goes'. Deer also had

about him that contained and dark look of the post-university new

left that was on the rise in the late nineteen eighties and early

nineties and which included groups like the now neo-liberal

Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP).

I had no contact with Deer until after the publication

of my book. On his return from the US, he broke off contact with me

by way of an abusive phone call. I had the distinct impression then

I

had been relegated to his past life. What had actually changed for

him was difficult to discern, although one thing became clear with

time. Although his stance against the errors of pharmaceutical

companies and bad drugs, appeared to be more or less solid, he had

definitely enlisted in the Wellcome-backed and the National Health

Service (NHS), Labour Party based generic campaign in favour of

mass

vaccination. Contrary to what most commentators seem to believe

now,

by the mid-nineteen nineties, long before the attempt to destroy

Wakefield, Deer with the aid of the Sunday Times, was

deconstructing the case of vaccine damage claimants.

The following essay looks at Deer over the period

between 1989 and 2007, a period that leaves serious unanswered

questions about the direction of Deer's life and work. It is my

hope

that in the future an investigative journalist of some standing or

an

official inquiry will unravel in greater detail the enigma of

Deer's

relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. It might, however,

be

to our advantage to build upon the following essay when writing

about

him in the future, rather than reinvent the wheel again next time

he

pops his head out of his warren. Presently our 'movement' appears

to

lack cohesive and integrated knowledge about 'the enemy', upon

which

we might build. I would be happy to add more referenced information

to this essay, so developing it as an authoritative source of

information about Deer. If they wish, anyone sending in

substantial information to add to the essay, can be credited on the

title page.

* * *

Deer was studying for a Philosophy degree at the university

of

Warwick when in April 1975 a sit-in began. Deer was charged with

breaking broke one of the windows in the senate House building so

that students intent on occupying, could gain access.[7] The

occupation was about increased rents for campus accommodation and

Deer as an ex-member of the student executive committee and a

radical

was the first students to gain access to the Senate House building.

Following the occupation a few students, including Deer were

charged

and stood 'trial' before the University Council, although found

guilty, on appeal in 1976 the decision was reversed and no further

action was taken against the defendants.

Warwick University came into being in1965. In its first

few decades of life, its students were heavily involved in protest,

rent strikes, and occupations which earned the University the

nickname of 'Red Warwick.' The student body in the late 1970s, at

Warwick, had extensive links with the emerging Revolutionary

Communist Party (RCP) led by a sociology lecturer at the University

f

Kent. After a Labour party election victory in 1997, members of

this

'revolutionary communist party' were to join up with Liberal

Democrat

Lords to manage the biggest UK lobby organisations on behalf of

international pharmaceutical companies.

Having left Warwick Deer first became press officer and

magazine editor for the leftist Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

(CND). While with CND, he was also active within the

libertarian

community of north London and with a number of other promising

young

writers and reporters who set up The Leveller, [8] a magazine that

became notorious when it challenged the Official Secrets Act. In

the

early eighties Deer joined the Times and then moved on to the

Sunday

Times for which he has written ever since.

When Deer joined the Sunday Times Britain still had a

relatively sceptical[9] investigating journalistic culture. The

Sunday Time in particular, although a liberal paper seemingly

having

no specific argument with government or corporations, had become

famous throughout the 1970s, for their far reaching investigation

into the iatrogenic tragedy of Thalidomide and the avoidance of

responsibility by its producing companies.[10] The Times had also

been well regarded for their ground breaking expose of the massive

Scotland Yard corruption scandal that swept through Londons CID,

the

vice squad and then the robbery squad between the 1960s and

1980s.[11]

At the Sunday Times in the early eighties, Deer found

himself on the crest of a consumer wave, investigating various

products and social situations, on his web site he describes

himself

as the first 'Social Affairs' reporter. Deer was good at his job,

he

had a congenial but serious personality and an ability to mix with

people on the margins and write about them in a sympathetic manner.

In 1989, however Deer, still campaigning for consumers, met a major

career crisis.

Many commentators on the subject of the development of

corporate power, consider that the most profound change in media

culture occurred in the early 1990s when, initially, in the battle

to

develop and market drugs for AIDS related illness the

pharmaceutical

industry moved in to control research and University research

funding

in particular. Somewhere between Thalidomide and MMR, science and

particularly medical science put itself in hock to the

pharmaceutical

industry.[12]

* * *

J is an investigative writer who has written several

books about aspects of the medical industrial complex. He started

focusing on conflict of interest, intervention by pharmaceutical

companies in government and patient groups in 1993. Over the last

four years he has been a campaign writer for the parents of MMR

vaccine damaged children,

covering every day of the three year hearing of the General Medical

Council that tried Dr Wakefield and two other doctors. His GMC

accounts can be found at

www.cryshame.com,

and his own website is,

www.slingshotpublications.com.

The rest of The Great Pretender a 30 page essay can be obtained

from

's web site at:

http://slingshotpublications.com at a minimum cost of £3.00/

$4.00.

Around 10 other essays written over the period of the GMC hearing

can

also be obtained from the Slingshot website.

The two volumes of Silenced Witnesses, written by the Parents and

edited by can also be obtained from his web site. All

money from these books goes to the parents organisation Cry Shame.

Vol II comes with a free copy of Alan Goldings film Selective

Hearing.

Selective Hearing can also be seen for free

on viddler here

http://www.viddler.com/explore/ziggy/videos/1/

or youtube here

Anyone with with an interest in showing or distributing this

film

should contact Alan through the Slingshot website.

[1] First recorded by The Platters 1955

[2] Carey. Taking the Risk out of Demcracy. University of

Illinois Press. 1997.

[3] The character Tariq Miah inThe Disappeared. M. R. Hall.

Macmillan

2010. Great Britain

[4] Secrets of the MMR scare, part 1: how the case against the MMR

vaccine was fixed. BMJ 2011; 342:c5347 doi: 10.1136/bmj.c5347

(Published 5 January 2011),

Secrets of the MMR scare, part 2: How the vaccine crisis was meant

to

make money. BMJ 2011; 342:c5258 doi: 10.1136/bmj.c5258 (Published

11

January 2011)

[5] Much of what I knew I published in my essay The Complainant.

Although this essay was spread quite widely, I found that little of

it sank into the culture around the 'Wakefied case' and that which

did was often quoted without reference by those intent on inventing

the wheel over and again. One of my twice weekly reports on the

three

year GMC hearing of which I attended every day except one,

'Journalist with no medical training solves mystery of

enterocolitis!' that reports on the matter of the prosecution

claiming that the children in the Lancet paper were not ill can be

read at:

http://www.wellsphere.com/autism-autism-spectrum-article/journalist-

with-no-medical-training-solves-mystery-of-enterocolitis/1082282

while my whole episodic report over three years can be read at:

http://www.cryshame.com

[6] J . Dirty Medicine: Science, big business and

the

assault on natural health. Slingshot Publications. 1993. e-copies

of

the book are available from:

http://www.slingshotpublications.com.

[7] Fox (born 1960), a leading RCP and Living Marxism (LM)

participant and one of the founder members of the Institute of Idea

funded by Pfizer. With her older sister of Fiona Fox, one of the

founder members of the Science Media Centre, she attended

University

of Warwick, where she graduated with a lower second class degree

(2:2) in literature. Fox believes in freedom of speech in

all

circumstances — exceept those involving Dr Wakefield!

[8] The Leveller was a British political magazine, c.1976 to

1982,

collectively produced by a shifting coalition of radicals,

socialists, marxists, feminists, and others of the British left and

progressive movements.

[9] Sceptical is the English spelling of this word, if I use

Skeptical, I am referring to the US group which developed out

of

CSICOP and which is now one of the most powerful pharmaceutical

lobbies.

[10] It is instructive to compare Deer's biography with this one

of

Knightley who was the first author of the Insight team's

book

Suffer the Children

about their Thalidomide investigation. Special correspondent for

The

Sunday Times for twenty years (1965-85) and one of the leaders of

its

Insight investigative team, he was born in Australia but has spent

most of his life in Britain. He was twice named British journalist

of

the year (1980 and 1988) and won the Overseas Press Club of America

award in 1975 for the best book on foreign affairs, a history of

war

reporting and propaganda called The First Casualty. He has lectured

on journalism, law and war at various British and American

universities and for the International Committee of the Red Cross

and

the Royal Military Acadamy, Sandhurst. He was twice named

Journalist

of the Year (1980 and 1988) in the British Press Awards--apart from

Pilger, the only journalist ever to have won it twice, and the

Overseas Press Club of America award for the best book on foreign

affairs in 1975 (The First Casualty)

[11] The Fall of Scotland Yard, Barry , Shirley and

Short. Penguin. 1977

[12] See Marsa, Prescription for Profits: How the

pharmaceutical industry bankrolled the unholy marriage between

science and business. Chapter 9 tells what happened to

Duesburg

when he voiced his scientific conclusions about HIV.

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

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