MMR: Turning the Tables on the British Medical Establishment

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MMR: Turning the Tables on the British Medical Establishment

By Stone

As the hearing at the UK General Medical Council  against the three Royal Free

doctors staggers on into 2009 it is intriguing to report that Bill Welsh,

president of the Edinburgh based Autism Treatment Trust and autism grandparent,

has launched a personal complaint against eleven British health officials

closely linked to the MMR affair. The 25 page document has been sitting before

the GMC since October, and he has now decided to publish it.

Bill Welsh’s complaint covers the whole history of recklessness and negligence

surrounding MMR, going back to 1988 when a known defective version of the

vaccine was introduced by GlaxoKline despite the fact that it had already

been banned in Canada, and indeed later had to be withdrawn in the UK. He also

draws attention to the fact that up until the introduction of MMR medical advice

was against the use of mumps vaccination for infants, thus delaying likely onset

of the disease to an age when it is more hazardous – suggesting its application

may still be unethical.

At the beginning Welsh outlines five areas of concern:

1. The inexplicable, and unforgivable, failure to react appropriately when it

was established in 1998 that autistic children had a novel form of bowel

disease/ inflammation.

2. An insistence on an “MMR or nothing” policy in face of the initial, and

accumulative, scientific and anecdotal evidence re MMR’s lack of safety for a

sub-set of children.

3. A refusal to press for proper investigation, using the most appropriate

scientific means of research, of the claims of thousands of parents that the MMR

vaccine had damaged children.

4. The promulgation, in conjunction with the Health Protection Agency, of

information relating to MMR vaccine safety that is likely unreliable and

potentially misleading in that context.

5. The recommendation that unethical treatments be given to children when there

is no clinical need and irrespective of whether the child might be prone to

adverse reactions.

Particular fire is directed at Prof. Salisbury, Director of Immunisation

at the Department of Health, who is named throughout the complaint, but ten

other health officials are also named. They are the two Chief Medical Officers

at the Department of Health during the period, Sir Calman and Sir Liam

son; chairmen of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation Prof

Sir Hull, Prof Langman and Prof Hall; chairmen of the

Committee on Safety in Medicines, Sir Alisdair Breckenridge and Gordon Duff

(Breckenridge is also named as the head of the medicines licensing authority,

the MHRA); two directors of the Medical Research Council Sir Radda and

Sir Colin Blakemore and the head of the Health Protection Agency, Sir

.

The complaint documents the systemic failure to heed any counter evidence about

the vaccine’s safety over a period of two decades in pursuit of health policy –

an over-reliance on epidemiology, and a tragic failure to monitor or explore the

harm caused to individual children, failing ethically and humanely those

children and the public.

Plainly, so long as medicines are administered there is a duty on officials, on

doctors and scientists, to make sure that they are safe, and used as safely as

they can be. As Bill Welsh makes clear, this has never happened. It could not

throw into greater relief the present perversion of justice taking place in the

prosecution of Wakefield, - and Simon Murch, who are on

trial because of the bureaucratic fantasy that the children they were

investigating and treating were not ill. Perhaps one day soon the bureaucrats,

themselves, will be on trial. Thank you, Bill!

Read the full complaint HERE.

http://www.cryshame.co.uk//index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=82 & Itemid=1\

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" I know of nobody who is purely Autistic or purely neurotypical. Even God had

some Autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin. " ~ Jerry Newport