Deetee
30th September 2008, 06:31 AM
Andrew Wakefield, the discredited researcher whose discredited theory that MMR caused autism, left the UK some time ago to set up shop in the US, where he set up Thoughtful House (http://www.thoughtfulhouse.org/), a centre for children with autism.
It appears that he is trying to relaunch his clinical career by establishing pediatric autism clinics.
I am sure this is a smart move - there is so much untapped woo in the USA (sorry guys, but it's true) that I reckon he is onto a winner. Let's just hope he has all his capital invested in shares.
Articles here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063631/Showbusiness-stars-help-controversial-MMR-jab-doctor-Andrew-Wakefield-relaunch-career-America.html) and here (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article4837798.ece?Submitted=true).
Paul Offit, professor of paediatrics at the University of Penn-sylvania, warned: “Wakefield’s malign influence is spreading across the United States, where we have seen vaccination rates drop and unprecedented chains of measles infections in the last year.”
PS, I have been studying Wakefield's autism "presentation" (http://www.thoughtfulhouse.org/0405-conf-awakefield.htm) to check what his current thoughts are on the subject. It is clear this man has drunk long and deep from the anti-vaccine "kool aid". What struck me was Wakefield's use of pictures of children with autism in his lectures (now displayed on the web site), even showing pictures of a child and his sister from the UK whose mother, he says, is under investigation for starving her child. None of the children have their faces blacked out, so they are quite identifiable to anyone who knows them.
If this action does not contravene some confidentiality regulations, I'm a badly shaved monkey. The man clearly has not an ethical bone in his entire body.
It appears that he is trying to relaunch his clinical career by establishing pediatric autism clinics.
I am sure this is a smart move - there is so much untapped woo in the USA (sorry guys, but it's true) that I reckon he is onto a winner. Let's just hope he has all his capital invested in shares.
Articles here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063631/Showbusiness-stars-help-controversial-MMR-jab-doctor-Andrew-Wakefield-relaunch-career-America.html) and here (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article4837798.ece?Submitted=true).
Paul Offit, professor of paediatrics at the University of Penn-sylvania, warned: “Wakefield’s malign influence is spreading across the United States, where we have seen vaccination rates drop and unprecedented chains of measles infections in the last year.”
PS, I have been studying Wakefield's autism "presentation" (http://www.thoughtfulhouse.org/0405-conf-awakefield.htm) to check what his current thoughts are on the subject. It is clear this man has drunk long and deep from the anti-vaccine "kool aid". What struck me was Wakefield's use of pictures of children with autism in his lectures (now displayed on the web site), even showing pictures of a child and his sister from the UK whose mother, he says, is under investigation for starving her child. None of the children have their faces blacked out, so they are quite identifiable to anyone who knows them.
If this action does not contravene some confidentiality regulations, I'm a badly shaved monkey. The man clearly has not an ethical bone in his entire body.