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When intellectual dishonesty becomes
a crime: Nature and its cynical
promotion of bad science
http://www.aidsorigins.com/content/view/219/2/
I think it is now high time
for me to make a frank public
statement about Nature and
its nefarious role in this debate.
The fact that Nature
regularly publishes alleged
"refutations" of the OPV theory and
that it does so to enormous fanfare,
the fact that it has competed
vigorously with its rival
Science in order to publish
such "refutations", and the fact
that it has never published an
exposition of the OPV theory, or
allowed a single paragraph of space
to any proponent of the OPV theory,
reveal that the rejection slips from
Nature have nothing
whatsoever to do with the volume of
correspondence that that journal
receives. Instead, they are
reflections of
Nature's determination
to promote an explanation for how
AIDS began that is supported only by
certain powerful governments, and by
a perversion of sound scientific
method.
....In
short, on this particular topic,
Nature has abandoned the most
basic principles of scientific
enquiry. Instead the journal has
consistently acted as if it is a
stooge of certain powerful
governments and interst groups.
"A
story was told to me about an
article written which detailed
serious side effects to the
whole-cell whooping cough vaccine in
a large group of children. The
medical journal refused to publish
it, saying that before it would
publish the article, the author must
state categorically in the
conclusion, that "the vaccine was
safe and effective". Thinking this
was a joke, the author added the
required sentence, and the article
was published. When told this story,
I didn't believe it. I was handed a
copy, and was flabbergasted.
I was told that in order to
have ANYTHING published, the only
way that authors could voice
reservations was to couch them in as
bland a language as possible, and
hide these reservations in the body
of the article unless the "problem"
was blatantly
obvious to a blind man."--Hilary Butler p. 203
Drugs such as antibiotics, hypertension drugs and the first treatments for cancer proved their worth in trials. Until the 1980s, these were run in universities. Independent academics did the research and published the results. But for the past 20 years the drug firms themselves have increasingly run trials. The result has been to undermine the value of the whole system. Now company employees analyse the data and medical journalists are hired to write them up for publication. Then Oxbridge and Ivy League professors are paid several thousand pounds to be credited as the authors of these articles.......I have also seen company memos asking who would be the most 'useful' academics to have as the authors of articles already written. Once published in top medical journals, these confections will deliver more sales than any number of drug representatives, but all too often they are not accurate reports of the trial results. In other organisations when evidence of disregard for public safety emerges, heads roll. But there have been no resignations following these drug disasters — barely a flicker of embarrassment. Why you should never trust new wonder drugs by Prof David Healy
Professional medicine reporting has no doubt tainted the once respected scientific method. Today, drug companies utilize a large majority of their profits to pay for and design their own studies. Additionally, "ghost writers" are hired to write favorable reviews of drugs despite their known dangers. These reviews are published in peer reviewed medical journals, which are used by medical doctors to get information on FDA approved drugs. Ultimately, doctors are hoodwinked into thinking that a given drug is safe and effective when, in reality, it poses great risk without benefit. [2006] Interview of Shane Ellison author of Health Myths Exposed
Despite the tendency of doctors to call modern medicine an 'inexact science', it is more accurate to say there is practically no science in modern medicine at all. Almost everything doctors do is based on a conjecture, a guess, a clinical impression, a whim, a hope, a wish, an opinion or a belief. In short, everything they do is based on anything but solid scientific evidence. Thus, medicine is not a science at all, but a belief system. Beliefs are held by every religion, including the Religion of Modern Medicine." Robert Mendelsohn MD Preface by Hans Ruesch to 1000 Doctors (and many more) Against Vivisection
"I'll give you an example. This is the New England Journal of Medicine......Eighty-three percent of its revenues comes from drug advertising. What do you think this costs? Eighty-three percent of its revenues comes from drug advertising."--Dr Levin MD http://www.consultclarity.com/blazing/levin.html
"For the public ever to break command science it must first understand the basis of its enormous powers. The medical establishment derives these powers from three sources: (1) enforced consensus through peer review, (2) through commercialization, and (3) the fear of disease, particularly infectious disease. Traditionally, the power of medical sciences has been based on the fear of disease, particularly infectious disease."--Peter Deusberg (Inventing The AIDS Virus) www.duesberg.com
"The British media has been enjoying a feeding
frenzy over a report that suggests "minerals and
vitamins can cause cancer and liver damage" (The
Times), that people are "poisoning themselves" (Sunday Times), and that
their health could be "irreversibly damaged" (Daily Telegraph).
The report and the ensuing press
articles come at an ideal time for the pharmaceutical
industry - just when the EU is determining safe levels of
vitamins to be sold over-the-counter to consumers. Safe upper levels
will be incorporated into a directive that will
restrict the sale of vitamins and other nutrients
throughout the EU in two years' time.
The report, from the UK Food
Standards Agency, and the press coverage that followed
will between them probably sound the death knell for the
nutritional industry in Britain and beyond. Success in restricting
vitamin sales in Europe will be followed by a fresh
attempt from the pharmaceutical lobby to reintroduce
tighter controls in the USA."--WDDTY May
2003
General:
"Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical
treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times.
Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal, suggests that "this is partly
because only one percent of the articles in medical journals are scientifically sound, and
partly because many treatments have never been assessed at all." ---Kenny Ausubel
"According to Clinical Evidence, only 15 % of the thousands of treatments they have reviewed have been beneficial. A further 23% are likely to be beneficial, 7% are a trade-off between benefit and harm, 5% are unlikely to be beneficial, 4% are likely to be ineffective or harmful and a whopping 46% are of "unknown effectiveness."--Private Eye 9 June.
"Most patients probably assume that when a doctor proposes to use an established treatment to conquer a disease he will be using a treatment which has been tested, examined and proven. But this is not the case. The savage truth is that most medical research is organised, paid for, commissioned or subsidised by the drug industry (and the food, tobacco and alcohol industries). This type of research is designed, quite simply, to find evidence showing a new product is of commercial value. The companies which commission such research are not terribly bothered about evidence; what they are looking for are conclusions which will enable them to sell their product. Drug company sponsored research is done more to get good reviews than to find out the truth."----Dr Vernon Coleman
"Most of the cheats in science are MDs."---Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize
"The core system by which the scientific community allots prestige (in terms of oral presentations at major meetings and publication in major journals) and funding is a non-validated charade whose processes generate results little better than does chance."---David F. Horrobin
Cawadias (1953) has said that "the history of medicine has shown that, whenever medicine has strayed from clinical observation, the result has been chaos, stagnation, and disaster."--British Medical Journal, Oct 8th, 1955, p.867 (Quoted in Clinical Medical Discoveries by Beddow Bayly)
"The enduring feature of the TOS saga is that it provided a blueprint for the international scientific community. If even a theory as palpably bogus as the "toxic oil" syndrome can be sustained internationally, then suppressing the truth must be remarkably straightforward. All it takes is a series of epidemiological reports, accredited by scientists of a similar persuasion, and then published in reputable scientific journals. There are, as Disraeli might have said, lies, damned lies and peer-reviewed scientific papers."--Bob Woffinden
"A medical myth is an aggressive defensive device used by orthodox medicine to retain the status quo and impede progress in the introduction of new and valuable therapies. ....The myth originates in some inadequate sloppy in vitro or animal experimental work from which unwarranted broad conclusions are drawn as to possible effects on man. There is never any hard human evidence involved, just pure speculation. The second step is that the news media pick it up and being more interested in sensationalism than in facts, magnify these speculations and terrify a gullible public. Further repetition of these unwarranted conclusions by the medical press gives them the status of medical dogma to be quoted and requoted."----Irwin Stone and A. Hoffer, M.D.
"University scientists studying Remune last year accused Immune Response of trying to stop publication of a failed Remune clinical trial, and the Food and Drug Administration warned the company in 1995 not to manipulate data to show positive findings."---Immunization Newsbriefs
"Immune Response filed for binding arbitration on Sept. 1 to stop the University of California and lead researcher Dr. James Kahn from publishing the study of Remune."--Immune Response Falls on Critical Study of HIV Drug
"One feels rage as well at the complicity of the "peer reviewed" journals which print these awful productions. It is abundantly clear, if further proof were needed, that "peer review" means simply preventing criticism of certain commercial interests and blocking the emergence of competing viewpoints. Finally, one feels rage and exasperation at the total inability of journalists -- who are reputed to be professional sceptics -- to see through, and expose, this duplicity."--Harris Coulter http://www.healthy.net/library/articles/coulter/critique.htm
"What really happened, we all know, is that tobacco companies spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding and publicizing "research" purporting to prove tobacco doesn't cause cancer, and at the same time created one of the most powerful political lobbies in history to prevent tobacco regulation."--John Stauber
The Government's scientists will often ask
for conclusive proof when they are challenged. It is a word often used when you
wish to win your side of the argument. Scientifically conclusive proof is
impossible to obtain – let me explain.
I was at a legal hearing in Torquay
representing a community and the barrister representing the communications
industry said "there is no conclusive proof that these microwaves will cause
damage". I argued: if somebody stood up and shot me in this courtroom there
would be three levels of proof. You would have everybody as a witness and that
would be accepted in a Court of Law. A pathologist could perform a post mortem,
decide that the bullet killed me and that would be a second level of proof. If,
however you wanted conclusive proof that the bullet killed me, you would have to
argue that at the split second the bullet went into my body every system in my
body was working perfectly because there are thousands of reasons why I could
drop dead on the spot before the bullet went in and you would have to prove
conclusively that all of these systems were working perfectly before the bullet
went in. Clearly, this is scientifically impossible; there is no such thing as
conclusive proof, yet it is what is demanded by government scientists when
challenging their decisions.
Confidential Report on
TETRA for the Police of England and Wales by B Trower
"If you want to change it you change the law that establishes the need for double blind clinical studies in drugs. You eliminate the efficacy clause from the Harris amendment to the food and drug act, which Harris himself didn't even want. This was imposed by the FDA and the drug industry. This upped the ante and made a regulatory barrier. Now instead of it taking 1 million dollars to establish the safety of a drug, you now need 300 million dollars. So none of the small inventors, or the people with good ideas can ever hope to possibly hope to get their drugs approved. They put you in administrative limbo where the best you ever hope to get is this backburner simmering kind of thing, and I know of a number of good scientists who have got IND's (Investigative New Drug Applications) to test drugs, but when you try to market the drug they will put you out of business, and Dr Burzynski is the prime example. Brilliant scientist, wonderful results in cancer, validated by the NCI, and yet he is on the verge of federal indictment."--Ralph Moss http://www.whale.to/c/moss.html
Moertel CG, Fleming TR, Rubin J, Kvols LK, Sarna G, Koch R, Currie VE, Young CW, Jones SE, Davignon JP. A clinical trial of amygdalin (Laetrile) in the treatment of human cancer. N Engl J Med 1982 Jan 28;306(4):201-
"Two alleged trials took place under the direction of Dr. Charles Moertel at the Mayo Clinic. However as one might expect from a proven swindler operating at such a dishonoured location, these bore little resemblence to scientific methodology. Moertel cooked the first trial…by packing the trial with patients whose immune systems had already been destroyed by toxic chemotherapy. He then rigged the second trial by treating the patients with ascorbate for only two and a half months and then continuing with the "trial" for another 2 years. He then issued a perjured press statement in which he announced that vitamin C therapy had been proven ineffective, carefully concealing the fact that he had almost certainly caused the death of several patients by reason of this iniquitous fraud. The resulting carefully devised publicity on the subject also caused the deaths of several other patients who had been happily surviving on ascorbate."---Dr Richards & Frank Hourigan.
"Just how many errors was not clear until recently when Harri Hemilä of the University of Helsinki and Zelek Herman of the Linus Pauling Institute published a retrospective analysis of Chalmers’ review citing an appalling number of mistakes, almost all of which were prejudicial against vitamin C."--S Fowkes http://www.ceri.com/ed-vitc.htm
"This man (Moertel) of the Mayo Clinic, no less….had the effrontery to defend the employment of two toxic preparations, with no curative value, in cases of metastasised intestinal cancer lest they (the patients) otherwise seek it (hope) from the hands of quacks and charlatans. In other words Moertel urged the use of a hramful substance of no value…on patients who are, presumably, paying a fee for their therapy,…and are hoping for a cure,…just to keep some other therapist from trying to save them!…….(you) can find a permanent record of the distinguished Dr. Moertel’s recommendations in the New England Journal of Medicine, 1978."—Dr Richards & Frank Hourigan
Mercury amalgam
You know, I’m not suggesting that. I am absolutely accusing them of that,
because I’ve seen it happen. For example, this was done at the University of
Kentucky where I’m located, and they did a study and they published it in the
Journal of the American Dental Association: a study that was earlier rejected by
the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New Eng-land Journal of
Medicine. So they published it in the Journal of the American Dental
Association, which isn’t a refereed journal… which isn’t a journal that would
normally address neurology or Alzheimer’s disease at all. I mean they’re not
competent to review research in this area. Dentists don’t know neuro-chemistry.
Then they called a press conference and announced the release. What they
actually did report in this JADA study was that they couldn’t find increased
mercury level in people who had huge numbers of amalgam fillings. It is the only
study that’s ever said that, that you can have a large number of amalgam
fillings and they couldn’t find elevated mercury in these subjects, any
elevation of mercury even though they were massively exposed to mercury versus
those that weren’t being ex-posed at all. So, they found no differences. They
didn’t find that amalgams weren’t correlated. They didn’t find amalgams were
correlated or not correlated to anything. In my opinion, it was the assumptions
made in the dental amalgam indexing that ob-fuscated the final analysis.
So
again, it’s the construction of confusion by these people by publishing papers
that are poorly done, poorly designed, and give them the answer they want which
is, “We didn’t find any-thing wrong, therefore everything is okay.” It’s that
old saying you know, “Absence of proof, isn’t proof of absence,” and they try to
modify that and say, “Well, if we don’t find anything, we can still say it’s
safe.” That’s exactly what they do. The study that was negative, they couldn’t
find anything. The only people in the world who ever did a study to show that
there was no correlation between mercury, blood or body burden and amal-gams,
and then announced it saying, “Therefore amalgams have nothing to do with
Alzheimer’s disease.”
Interview of Dr. Boyd E. Haley by
Teri Small:
Look, over the 90% of the mercury – and this is on an average person with
four or five amalgam fillings – over 90% of the mercury in the bodies of mothers
who give birth to autistic children, and in the blood of not only the mother but
anybody else that has amalgam fillings, it comes from their dental amalgams.
And yet our government will absolutely – and when I say ‘our government’ I mean
the dental branch of the Food and Drug Administration and the National
Institutes of Dental Research – will do everything they can to protect and
defend the use of amalgam fillings and to keep this data from being known to the
American public.
For example, there is a children’s amalgam study that was done on four children
on the East coast and children in Lisbon, Portugal. It was funded by the
National Institutes of Dental and Cranial Facial Research, put in the hands and
under the control of dentists who said the objective of the thing is to show
that amalgams are safe for children. Not to test whether or not they’re safe or
not, but to show it. So they’ve done this study, and they’re going to report on
it in the next few months. And they’re going to find out they couldn’t find
anything wrong. But the one thing is, all they did was
measure urine and hair and blood mercury levels at the most. They didn’t look at
fecal levels where 90% or plus of the mercury is excreted, so they’re going to
say they didn’t see much mercury in these children, probably. They didn’t do the
porphyrin profiles. That’s what was needed to be done to show if a physiological
system in the child was being damaged. They’re looking at things where you don’t
find anything different.
Again, it’s symptomatic of that Danish study where you
did a Thimerosal causal on a population that doesn’t have an autism epidemic,
and you find nothing. So this is, again, it’s part of the government; look where
you won’t find anything and when you don’t find anything, then sell it to the
American public because if, “Well, if we didn’t find anything therefore it’s
safe.” And you’re going to see that come out and that is done by taxpayer
dollars and people ought to be extremely mad about it.
Interview of Dr. Boyd E.
Haley by Teri Small:
Trial information kept secret
Most people don't realise that the findings from these
trials always include a no public disclosure clause, and you are not allowed to
see the data gleaned from these clinical trials. Even the FDA or CDC in
the USA gets to see only the filtered final statistics....The IAS requested all
information.....relating to the Meningococcal Meningitis B vaccine.....Almost
everything we asked for, even the protocols, were witheld under confidentiality
provisions...of the Act. ----
[Book June 2006] Just A Little
Prick by Peter and Hilary Butler p 121
Antibody theory [See: Antibody
Theory quotes]
"Human trials generally correlate "antibody" responses with
protection - that is if the body produces antibodies (proteins) which bind to vaccine
components, then it must be working and safe. Yet Dr March says antibody response is
generally a poor measure of protection and no indicator at all of safety.
"Particularly for viral diseases, the 'cellular' immune response is all important,
and antibody levels and protection are totally unconnected."--Private Eye 24/1/2002
No trial ever
done using 100% unvaccinated controls
" One of the flaws in studies of vaccines is that there are no
true placebo groups. The vaccine is tested in one group of immunized children and is
compared to another group of immunized children."--Peter Baratosy
"the US National Academy of Sciences published a report in Sept 1993 in which the American Academy of paediatrics reaffirmed "its long standing position that the benefits of immunisation far outweigh the risks". However, Russell Alexander, a panel member and professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington, says he is disappointed that the panel did not compare the risk of vaccination with the risks of going unvaccinated!.....Since there was no comparison of immunisation with another procedure, or with being unimmunised, the conclusions of the American Academy of Paediatrics are not based on scientific reasoning and are almost meaningless. Their position only serves to illustrate the prejudice that exists within many of those interested in promoting vaccines."---Trevor Gunn BSc
"The Prevnar pre-licensure clinical trials, which Wyeth Lederle paid Kaiser Permanente to conduct, compared two experimental vaccines against each other. To compound this basic methodological flaw, Kaiser and Wyeth Lederle, allowed most of the children in the trial to be given the more reactive DPT vaccine rather than use the safer, less reactive DTaP vaccine. This placed the children in that five-year experiment in greater danger and allowed the drug company to write off the seizures that occurred as being caused by DPT and not Prevnar, when in fact, they didn't know. Even so, the groups of children who got Prevnar suffered more seizures, higher fevers, more irritability and other reactions than did the children who got the other experimental vaccine. It was a no-brainer as far as I was concerned: Kaiser and Wyeth Lederle had proved nothing about Prevnar vaccine safety."--Barbara Loe Fisher
"P.Aaby et al, Pediat Infec DisJ 8:197-200,1989---By comparing groups of children with apparently different vaccination status, this study suggests that measles vaccination reduces mortality by 30%. However, their comparisons in this study would lead one to have serious misgivings about their conclusions. The group used as a "non-vaccinated" group were in fact vaccinated between certain dates. They were found to have undetectable levels of antibody and therefore it was assumed that the vaccine did not work, hence this was used as a ‘control’ non-vaccinated group. Most of a second group of 123 individuals, vaccinated at another time were found to have responded and were therefore used as the vaccinated group. However 15 of this vaccinated group did not seroconvert and they were excluded from the results! Three of these children died!"---Trevor Gunn BSc
"It is a pretty bad habit of vaccine researchers to give several vaccines simultaneously where the effect of only one of them has to be studied and evaluated. Obviously this leads to confounding results..........for evaluation of side-effects in most studies was restricted to 48 to 72 hours. Needless to say that many serious adverse effects show up long after that time span; by definition they could never be mentioned in those studies. Nevertheless most of these studies pretend to prove the safety of the vaccine."--Kris Gaublomme MD
And the
reason for that is here:
"I have not seen autism with the Amish," said Dr. Frank Noonan, a
family practitioner in Lancaster County, Pa., who has treated thousands of Amish
for a quarter-century. "You'll find all the
other stuff, but we don't find the autism. We're right in the heart of Amish
country and seeing none, and that's just the way it is."
In Chicago,
Homefirst Medical Services treats thousands of never-vaccinated children whose
parents received exemptions through Illinois' relatively permissive immunization
policy. Homefirst's medical director, Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, told us he is not
aware of any cases of autism in never-vaccinated children; the national rate is
1 in 175, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We have
a fairly large practice," Eisenstein told us. "We have about 30,000 or 35,000
children that we've taken care of over the years, and I don't think we have a
single case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines.
"We do have enough of a sample," Eisenstein said. "The numbers are too large to
not see it. We would absolutely know. We're all family doctors. If I have a
child with autism come in, there's no communication. It's frightening. You can't
touch them. It's not something that anyone would miss."
Dr. Jeff
Bradstreet, a Florida family practitioner with ties to families who homeschool
their children for religious reasons, told Age of Autism he has proposed such a
study in that group. "I said I know I can tap into this community and find
you large numbers of unvaccinated homeschooled," said Bradstreet, "and we
can do simple prevalence and incidence studies in them, and my gut reaction is
that you're going to see no autism in this group."
http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20060728-111605-3532r
Animal safety
tests--you couldn't make it up
"The only
safety testing that has ever been done on the pertussis vaccine
in the past 50 years is an unproven method called the Mouse
Weight Gain Test. The "scientists" inject the vaccine to be
tested into the stomachs of baby mice. If the mice continue to
gain weight and don't die right away, it is assumed the vaccine
is safe and effective for humans. That's it! I'm not making this
up!.......The
only toxicity test required for the initial licensing of the DPT
vaccine in the United States was this mouse weight-gain test 60
years ago."-----The
Sanctity of Human Blood By
Tim O'Shea
p. 69
Safety testing
left to makers and easy to fix
"FDA virologist Peter Reeve........ acknowledged that
the FDA suspended its own independent tests of vaccine purity 15 years ago, leaving it entirely
up to the manufacturers to ensure the vaccine is contaminant free."--'The Virus and the Vaccine': Atlantic Monthly
One finding was that when vaccines are tested for viral contamination, results of these tests differ according to the time frame in which they are performed. Reading from the report, Sneed says, “The testing of cell cultures used in vaccines is commonly done 14 to 21 days after the cells are planted, the usual period for most virologic studies. At that time, only 2-4 percent show viral infections, but if the same lots are examined 29 to 55 days after planting, a significantly higher percentage of cultures show viral infection.”
Vaccines: A Second Opinion by Gary Null
It is only during the last day of the conference that we learn that most of the objections concerning the positive relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and ADD and ADHA were bogus. For example, Dr. Rapin on page 200 notes that all children in the study were below age 6 and that ADD and ADHD are very difficult to diagnose in pre-schoolers. She also notes that some children were followed for only a short period. THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VACCINE COVER-UP By Russell Blaylock, M.D.
"In the UK the government Health Authority quotes figures of the measles vaccine as being 90% effective (which means that) 90% of the recipients of the vaccine, produce a certain level of antibodies to the viral agents in the vaccine, 10% have produced no or undetectable levels of antibody. This information has NOT been derived from population studies and as we have already acknowledged, this does NOT indicate what percentage of those people are actually immune, (or, for that matter, how long that apparent immunity lasts). So, to state that the vaccine is 90% effective is somewhat misleading and at any rate inaccurate with regard to a statement of immunity in a real disease situation."--Trevor Gunn BSc
"A number of clinical laboratory studies demonstrate that vaccines may cause chronic damage to the G.I. tract, immune system, brain, and other organs. Several such studies have been reported in past issues of the ARRI. Wakefield, Sabra, Singh, O'Leary and Kawashima are among the authors whose work documents lingering vaccine effect on children on the autistic spectrum, compared to normal controls. The IOM report pays little heed to this evidence, instead focusing attention on several deeply flawed epidemiological studies."---Dr Rimland MD
"The CDC did two studies, one study on diabetes and one on asthma.............The studies represent pure junk science that is primarily propaganda."--Bart Classen
"In a follow up study they changed the study design by adding unorthodox mathematical coefficients "fudge factors" to substantially reduce the true risk of diabetes associated with vaccination and now their data would make it appear that the vaccine is safe."--Bart Classen testimony
"In July 2002, the Indianapolis Star newspaper quoted the lawyers Waters and Kraus as saying that "Lilly flim-flammed scientists for years with a 1931 study that concluded thiomersal wasn't harmful to humans". The Star went on: "The study, published in the American Journal of Hygiene, reported that merthiolate has a very low order of toxicity......for man". Digging further, Waters found out that the study's toxicity data came from experimental use of thiomersal by doctors from Lilly and Indianapolis City Hospital on meningitis patients during a severe outbreak in 1929-30. 'The 1931 study on a cohort of severely ill people (who all died) ended up being quoted in Lilly brochures into the 1980s', Waters said. 'It very clearly demonstrates an effort to do an unethical study and then paint the results in a certain way that helps them sell this product'. Lilly ignored or covered up later evidence that thiomersal, which contains 50 per cent mercury by weight, can be dangerous to humans", Waters said."--David Thrower
Hoffman HJ, et al (1987). Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis immunization and sudden infant death: results of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Cooperative Epidemiological Study of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome risk factors. Pediatrics. 1987 Apr;79(4):598-611. PMID: 3493477; UI: 87146149
"This sort of attempted (statistical) comparison can only be described as a shambles, a grotesque imitation of scientific method designed to fool the public (and the journalists who are supposed to be monitoring precisely this sort of intellectual dishonesty). It would have made as much sense to interview the first 1600 people they could pick up in the Greyhound Bus Station and ask them about their vaccination status. But this article had its effect. Dr. Torch was effectively silenced, and for years this pseudo-science has been cited as one of the medical establishment's principal weapons in its drive to extend childhood vaccination programs. How do you react when your own government lies to you systematically about life-and-death questions? As I have noted earlier, the answer is political action in the state legislatures, and one weapon in the hands of the public is an understanding of the pseudo-science and pseudo-epidemiology represented by articles like this one."--Harris Coulter http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/coulter/sids.html
Griffin
MR, et al. Risk of sudden infant death syndrome after immunization with the
diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine. N Engl J Med. 1988 Sep 8;319(10):618-23. PMID:
3261837; UI: 88318811.
Griffin
MR, et al. Risk of seizures and encephalopathy after immunization with the
diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine. JAMA. 1990 Mar 23-30;263(12):1641-5. PMID: 2308203;
UI: 90172513.
"Two studies by teams of epidemiologists headed by Marie R. Griffin represent perhaps
the absolute worst I have encountered in many years of reading this literature.......It is
amazing that such a study (1988 NEJM) could be accepted by a reputable scientific journal.
The reason was doubtless that the study was funded by the CDC and the FDA, and that two of
the coauthors (Griffin and Ray) were at the time "Burroughs Wellcome Scholars in
pharmacoepidemiology" (whatever that is). Burroughs-Wellcome is, of course, a major
producer of the pertussis vaccine. Have these people never heard of conflict of
interest?........These kinds of articles bring the Public Health Service, the CDC, the
FDA, the "peer-reviewed" journals, and the rest of the
medical-industrial-government complex into disrepute. Physicians can swallow this garbage
if they want, since they make their living from it, but parents who expect at least
elementary honesty from those who call themselves "scientists," and whose
children are being maimed and crippled by the very vaccines which are proclaimed innocuous
by authors such as Griffin et al. are already taking steps to put this invalid out of its
misery. The relations between the public and the vaccine establishment are surely going to
get a lot worse before they start getting any better."---Harris Coulter http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/coulter/vacc-deb.html
"All the sources of error identified in the (Danish) study distort it in the same direction: obscuring the role of the MMR vaccine and exonerating it from any suspicion that it may cause autism. This strongly indicates deliberate fraud. The reason is not hard to guess. Most of the authors of the report are medical doctors and it is safe to assume that they are - or have been - ardent pro-vaccinators. By now they should be well aware of the many scientific studies of the injuries caused by vaccines. They will know that there is now an autism epidemic, that only the vaccinated are affected and that autism always occurs after vaccination and not before. In other words the authors of this report are people with blood on their hands, who fear the retribution of parents, whose children they have killed, mutilated and rendered autistic. People who are prepared to kill and injure helpless children for money will hardly hesitate to lie and cheat if it will keep them out of jail and enable them to avoid paying compensation to their victims. This report is a desperate and despicable attempt by child abusers to remove the noose that is tightening around their necks. Their report (and this one) belongs in the hands of the prosecutor."-----Ulf Brånell
Taylor B. Miller E. Farringdon PC. Petropolous M.C. Favot-Mayaud I. Lij & Waight A. MMR Vaccine and Autism: No Epidemiological Evidence for A Causal Association. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=m_s
"It is clear that the study was commissioned to dismiss the hypothesis that
there may exist a relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism. In reality the study is
fatally flawed and statistically inadequate. Despite clear findings supporting the
relationship hypothesis, the authors discard their own clearly unexpected, statistical
findings and manipulating the results to ‘prove’ their own pre-existing
hypothesis.
This approach, coming from the Medicines Control Agency, is an
outrageous attempt to pervert public perception of the potential relationship between the
MMR vaccination and autism.
In the continuing interests of the children and adults represented by
our organisation, AiA calls for the resignation of all key members of the Study Group, on
the grounds that they are prepared to place a skewed and feeble study into the public
arena in an attempt to defend the MMR vaccination."---Allergy Induced Autism organisation press release
" The Taylor study is seriously flawed in many ways, as had been noted in a number of letters to the editor of The Lancet and in a number of additional letters on the subject which have been posted on the internet. It was subject to strong attack at a recent meeting of the British Statistical Society. I have been a full-time researcher my entire professional life, for almost 50 years, and I respectfully asked Dr. Taylor for a copy of the data so that I could reanalyze them. He refused this ordinary professional courtesy, and I have subsequently written to the editor of The Lancet requesting that an impartial committee be asked to reexamine Dr. Taylor’s statistical methods. If he refuses again, I urged The Lancet to retract his paper."--Dr Rimland
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