Dr. Andy Wakefield quotes
Wakefield, Dr. Andy 

By Dr Wakefield
"We are in the midst of an international epidemic. Those responsible for investigating and dealing with this epidemic have failed.   Among the reasons for this failure is the fact that they are faced with the prospect that they themselves may be responsible for the epidemic. Therefore, in their efforts to exonerate themselves they are an impediment to progress. I believe that public health officials know there is a problem; they are, however, willing to deny the problem and accept the loss of an unknown number of children on the basis that the success of public health policy - mandatory vaccination - by necessity involves sacrifice. Neither I, nor my colleagues subscribe to the belief that any child is expendable. History has encountered and dealt with such beliefs. You, the parent's and children, are the source of the inspiration and strength for our endeavours; our quest for truth through science - a science that is compassionate, uncompromising and uncompromised. I do not mean to stir you to mutiny, but be assured that armed with this science it is in your power to force this issue, in your pediatricians office, in Congress, in the Law Courts.  Keep faith with your instincts - they have served you well."---Andy Wakefield (April 22, 2002 "POWER of ONE - IDEA" Rally, Washington DC)

Professor Wakefield said: "Last week in our clinic we saw nine or 10 new children with exactly the same story, referred by jobbing paediatricians from around the country who said, 'This child developed normally, had a reaction to MMR and is now autistic'". ..........He said: "The department says that the safety of MMR has been proven. The argument is untenable. It cannot be substantiated by the science. That is not only my opinion but increasingly the view of healthcare professionals and the public.  "Tests have revealed time and time again that we are dealing with a new phenomenon. The Department of Health's contention that MMR has been proven to be safe by study after study after study just doesn't hold up. Frankly, it is not an honest appraisal of the science and it relegates the scientific issues to the bottom of the barrel in favour of winning a propaganda war."170 Cases of Autism Linked to Vaccine in UK

It has been very difficult for my colleagues to come to terms that there may be a genuine problem with inoculations, something that is suppose to be one of the great medical achievements of the 20th century; indeed something in this country which is mandated, and mandated in the absence of adequate safety studies. And there will be a price to pay for this. The Cure Autism Conspiracy of Parents and the M.I.N.D. Institute (Wakefield & Rollens interview)

ANDREW WAKEFIELD You do not combine three live viruses into one vaccine and assume that that is a benign process, that you can follow those children for 3, 4, 5 weeks and get away with it.  These are viruses that are live, they are capable of establishing long-term infection and they are capable of producing long-term adverse events. [2002] PANORAMA MMR Every Parent's Choice

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By Carmel Wakefield

‘Something is causing an appalling worldwide epidemic of autism and the new form of inflammatory bowel disease which Andy and his colleagues at the Royal Free Hospital in London first identified about ten years ago. Yet all that we ever hear from the authorities is, “It’s not MMR,”’ she says, packing up the last of her belongings in her West London home.......‘Oddly, though, they don’t seem in the least concerned about finding out what the actual causes might be. It is impossible for the authorities to rule out fears of a link between this vaccine, autistic disorders and bowel disease because they have not yet done the detailed clinical studies that Andy and others have, for many years, been pleading for. ‘Why have they not, when, obviously, that is the only way to settle this controversy once and for all?’ [Media Oct 2006 Wakefield] VILIFED by the MMR zealots

‘He started voicing his concerns to the Department of Health in 1992, assuming they’d order urgent clinical research. He assumed public safety would be of paramount concern to health officials. ‘He thought they’d want to rule out any possibility that MMR could cause gut damage, particularly as worrying evidence was starting to emerge that the live mumps and measles viruses in the vaccine could interact to suppress the body’s natural immune response. But no one wanted to know. He met with a complete brick wall.’ [Media Oct 2006 Wakefield] VILIFED by the MMR zealots

‘The spotlight really fell on Andy after that news conference, but that wasn’t the beginning of his work. If he’d just voiced concerns based on nothing other than a preliminary study of 12 children, in an off-the-cuff way, of course that would have been unacceptable.’ And that is exactly how the Government propaganda machine and drug company apologists have characterised Andy’s actions. ‘But by the time of that conference, he’d completed a detailed analysis of MMR’s safety studies internationally, running to hundreds of pages, and was deeply alarmed by the inadequacies revealed – inadequacies since independently confirmed. ‘By the time that Lancet paper was published, the Royal Free team had investigated not just 12 children, but scores. And subsequently, they saw hundreds with this new form of bowel disease, allied to autism and other types of severe neurological damage of which there’d been absolutely no sign prior to their MMR jabs – hundreds of children’s parents all telling the same stories, with the same histories and clinical findings.....(she) says these findings have since been replicated by researchers in America, Italy and Venezuela. ‘But it’s as if these scientific papers don’t exist,’ she says. ‘As if all my husband ever did was to be involved in a study of 12 children, then shoot his mouth off. The endless stream of lies told by powerful people in positions of great public trust is horrifying. [Media Oct 2006 Wakefield] VILIFED by the MMR zealots

‘There is simply no way he could ever work here again. His former colleagues have made that crystal clear.’ [Media Oct 2006 Wakefield] VILIFED by the MMR zealots

‘My husband has been persecuted by extremely powerful forces for asking questions that his research findings made it morally and ethically essential for him to ask,’.......... ‘I used to believe that this country was a bastion of academic integrity and intellectual freedom. So this whole sad process of attrition, isolation and vilification, on a very personal level, has sickened and disillusioned me. [Media Oct 2006 Wakefield] VILIFED by the MMR zealots

 ‘Documents obtained by Andy under the Data Protection and Freedom Of Information Acts show exactly what was going on behind the scenes at the Royal Free, before Andy was forced out in 2001, the Department of Health and elsewhere over MMR; letters, reports, minutes of meetings and e-mails that they never intended us to see. ‘While I’ve found it unpleasant and upsetting reading about the cynical machinations that were going on, it’s very satisfying to be able to reveal them. The public most certainly deserves to know.  [Media Oct 2006 Wakefield] VILIFED by the MMR zealots

 To date, virtually all they have had to guide them is an overwhelming barrage of government propaganda and spin, funded by millions of pounds in taxpayers’ money.’ She thinks people will be shocked when they read about what went on ‘behind the scenes’ and promises her controversial husband will not stop asking important questions of the medical community. ‘Whatever his enemies may hope, he’s not going away,’ she vows. ‘Nor are the ever increasing number of children with autism disorders, now tens of thousands around the world, who also suffer grievously from this new form of bowel disease. ‘ I am determined to hold on to my unwavering belief that justice will prevail, that the truth will out, and that these children will eventually be given the help they need.’ [Media Oct 2006 Wakefield] VILIFED by the MMR zealots

The problem, as the Wakefields were quickly to learn, was that only the very bravest or most foolhardy of medical researchers would ever dare publicly express doubts about any childhood vaccine, let alone raise the spectre that it might cause something as serious as autism. [Media Oct 2006 Wakefield] VILIFED by the MMR zealots

Indeed, hundreds of parents across Britain now say that the mere mention of bowel disease in their autistic children guarantees they’ll be immediately turned away by doctors and refused any help or treatment........‘It is as though any kind of association with Andy’s work causes doctors here to run a mile’, says Carmel. ‘Andy has photographs of children that would make anyone who saw them cry. Children black and blue from banging their heads on furniture and walls to distract themselves from their chronic gut pain. And then, photos of the same children, after proper investigation and treatment, happy and smiling. It is absolutely heartbreaking that British children cannot expect the same treatment autistic children now receive in other countries. It horrifies us both.’ [Media Oct 2006 Wakefield] VILIFED by the MMR zealots