Reply #72: Having been among the fortunate few who were able to [View All]

[truedelphi]

To view on C Span the Oversight committee (or Government reform committee) during the nineties, and to see first hand how helpful Dr Wakefield was to all the various patients and their parents, I can only say that he was a very decent human being.

On account of Wakefield, we know that it is not just genetics that cause autism - among people brought forward was the mother of identical twins, one of whom was vaccinated on a day when he was ill (A "no no" among vets, but a frequently occurring event among pediatric nurses!) and while the twin who was healthy the day of the vaccination remained normal, the sick toddler went on to full blown autism...

Why the Big Pharma people can be so greedy as to destroy someone like Wakefield, who did the best he could, as he knew that requests for any sort of grant money would be denied, I just don't know.

I will forever be grateful to Senator Burton for convening this panel. If nothing else, it united a lot of parents and brought them together in ways that may someday have unforeseen consequences. (Already some of those parents were the leaders of the petition with the 10,000 names on it. In the old days, the observations of 10,000 people noticing an event would have become part of science, falling under the "inductive" reasoning end of science, but in this day and age, 10,000 people noticing their healthy child becoming a victim first of convulsions and high fever, then of diarrhea, etc, immediatley after a vaccination, these observations are dismissed as just "anecdotal nonsense.")

"Bwando is great! It has electrolytes." Only thing "Idiocracy" got wrong is the pervasiveness of a population's defective reasoning is not in the distant future - it is right here and now.

Big Industry is forever changing the meaning of logic. Logic for Big Pharma now only occurs in their industry-money-sponsored "university laboratory" setting.