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Parents and Professionals in support of Dr Andrew Wakefield
"Jeff" wrote in message news:BUmAj.80$yD3.14@trnddc05... Have a great night! Thanks but I go to bed at night, not fly around like you lot ;0) Anyone can see the truth re Wakefield here http://whale.to/v/gmc_wakefield.html Brian Deer is going to get his ass sued off when this is over |
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NEW LABOUR, THE VACCINE SCANDAL AND THE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION OF DR ANDREW WAKEFIELD.
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NEW LABOUR, THE VACCINE SCANDAL AND THE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION OF DR ANDREW WAKEFIELD.
Not one parent has complained about the treatment that their child received
under the care of the clinical team at the Royal Free. Indeed, because the parents of vaccine damaged children, entirely support the work of Wakefield, Murch and Walker-Smith, the GMC clearly could not call any of them as complainants against the doctors. Because they didn't want Brian Deer's motives disclosed under cross examination, they have not called him either. So it would appear that there is no real complainant behind the GMC hearings. More importantly perhaps the voices of the children and the parents have been stifled in this whole process while both the government and the GMC have tried hard to convince the public that there are no vaccine damaged children. |
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Parents and Professionals in support of Dr Andrew Wakefield
"Jeff" wrote in message news:ysmAj.77$yD3.60@trnddc05... Kevysmom wrote: "Kevysmom" wrote in message ... Mark, If you are going to make claims like that against Dr Wakefield, Please back it up with peer reviewed scientific studies. (With no conflicts of interest) Thank you Marko! P.S From what I have read the MMR vaccine is responsible for the GUT problems in LOTS of children. What happens when you have gut problems, doesnt this interfere with how your body absorbs nutrients? Then you have to worry about constipation, This can cause an increase in ammonia levels(Another SERIOUS toxin that causes damage to the brain) I think I had also read that Dr Wakefield tested the spinal fluid of children and found the kids had the measles virus in the spinal cord, it would also be in the brain. I think pediatrician's would be wise to check and see if their handicapped children also have the measles virus in the spinal cord... Mark, If you are going to make claims like that against Dr Wakefield, Please back it up with peer reviewed scientific studies. (With no conflicts of interest) Thank you Marko! P.S Does that mean that you don't consider Wakefield's article in the Lancet as evidence? After all, Wakefield got 55,000 pounds from the Legal Aid Board, which was seeking evidence to use against vaccine makers so they could make more money. And, 10 of 12 coauthors retracted the conclusion of the article, too. Jeff ... Now we know why Jeff notkidsdoc snipped.... From what I have read the MMR vaccine is responsible for the GUT problems in LOTS of children. What happens when you have gut problems, doesnt this interfere with how your body absorbs nutrients? Then you have to worry about constipation, This can cause an increase in ammonia levels(Another SERIOUS toxin that causes damage to the brain) I think I had also read that Dr Wakefield tested the spinal fluid of children and found the kids had the measles virus in the spinal cord, it would also be in the brain. I think pediatrician's would be wise to check and see if their handicapped children also have the measles virus in the spinal cord... |
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Parents and Professionals in support of Dr Andrew Wakefield
"Jeff" wrote in message news:BUmAj.80$yD3.14@trnddc05... Kevysmom wrote: Does that mean that you don't consider Wakefield's article in the Lancet as evidence? After all, Wakefield got 55,000 pounds from the Legal Aid Board, which was seeking evidence to use against vaccine makers so they could make more money. And, 10 of 12 coauthors retracted the conclusion of the article, too. Do you have proof of this claim, Jeff. http://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-deer-1.htm *Selected investigations* http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/mmr4.htm The retraction: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15016483 TRust the government. Poor Putz. Why would the coauthors retract, hmmm. Were they afraid they might have been mistreated like Dr Wakefield? Perhaps they thought it was crappy science, too. Have a great night! Jeff On Mar 7, 9:02 pm, Jeff wrote: Kevysmom wrote: Mark, If you are going to make claims like that against Dr Wakefield, Please back it up with peer reviewed scientific studies. (With no conflicts of interest) Thank you Marko! P.S Does that mean that you don't consider Wakefield's article in the Lancet as evidence? After all, Wakefield got 55,000 pounds from the Legal Aid Board, which was seeking evidence to use against vaccine makers so they could make more money. And, 10 of 12 coauthors retracted the conclusion of the article, too. Jeff ... |
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Parents and Professionals in support of Dr Andrew Wakefield
"Mark Probert" wrote: On Mar 7, 8:38 pm, Kevysmom wrote: Mark, If you are going to make claims like that against Dr Wakefield, Please back it up with peer reviewed scientific studies. (With no conflicts of interest) I thought you were aware of the testimony at the Cedillo hearings. Do go read it. First do read this From: "M,a,r,k P,r,o,b,e,r,t-September 7, 2004" M,a,r,k P,r,o,b,e,r,t M.a.r.k P.r.o.b.e.r.t-July 10, 2004" M.a.r.k P.r.o.b.e.r.t From: M.a.r.k P.r.o.b.e.r.t-April 30, 2004 ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Donna, do you think it is now mark.probert@gagmail ?? LOL!! Thank you Marko! P.S From what I have read the MMR vaccine is responsible for the GUT problems in LOTS of children. Imaginary. == Psycholobabble... The entity *somatization disorder* is psychobabble and is obtained from the DSM-IV manual and is used by psychologists and psychiatrists.MD's have borrowed the entity for their own uses. It is a spurious diagnosis with no laboratory indicators. that somatization disorder is a kind of junk category into which physicians dump patients presenting with mind/behaviorialsymptoms and/or a history of such which the physician does not fancy or understand, especially if the patient does not present with symptoms or symptoms which are not separate diagnoses (also anon-scientific way of separating symptoms and causality) . I mentiont his because mercury and lead are both known to cause primarily "psychiatric" symptoms, with a history of emotional instability, etc.in patients. So a "scientist" is someone who makes "a priori" judgements about what neurological symptoms a heavy metal poisoned patient can and cannot have. A "scientist" demands laboratory indicators whenever his fraternity does so. When the fraternity does not do so, the esteemed scientist Rx's Prozac like *mad*. But if the patient's complaints appear in some kind of package which don't meet the prejudices of the male clinician/voodoo doctor, then it's necessary to pull out theDSM-IV manual and wax on about scientific discipline and create from thin air a "somatization disorder". It's just another way of saying that one can create a loose definition of a nebulous condition and then stretch it to label anything which appears bizarre, so that rather than actually diagnose and solve problems you can dump the ones you don't like into the recycle bin andlet the DSM-IV manual thumpers profit from the stash. That way everybody is happy. The male voodoo doctor gets to see himself as a scientist and the psych therapist gets another client. I believe that SD is used by doctors who do not like the idea that conditiions which affect the brain cause certain mental states and behaviors which are not in keeping with their own requirements for how disease is supposed to manifest in the human body. I believe the medical profession has an alliance with the psych profession because they share a common belief system. No, the starting point is to go back to college and unlearn the psychobabble taught to physicians in med school. But that cannot be done--with all the psychological investments involved in the career and selfhood and one's supremecy of being--so instead one wages war on the Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivitysyndromes, since these syndromes are diseases of both body and brain,in which affective disorders are documented in all three. But since the Freudian-psychobabble-educated physician suffers cognitivedissonance when presented with these, the syndromes must be attacked. Continuing education is not an option. Instead, reality must be shaped to fit the psychological needs of the profession, and the patients need to be hazed. So rather than counsel with a psychotherapist over issues of selfhood and megalomania and deep insecurity which interfere with the process of continuing education--which is also the scientific process itself--it is necessary to reformulate these disease syndromes so that they fit into the 20th-century mind-body conceptual dualism taught to physicians, in which brain diseases are separate from diseases of thebody and mind states are separate from both. This needs to be done despite the fact that poisons such as lead and mercury have been known for 100 years to poison the brain, body, and mind all at the same time. So Science needs to be bent and manipulated to serve a profession which maintains a conceputal framework which is not rooted in Science, and those teachings must be maintained for those sychologically inclined to conservatism and intellectual dominance,all properly wrapped in the impressive rhetoric of scientific and clinical objectivity. A lot of your responses are flak garbage which you use to exhaust pariticpants. I made my position perfectly clear. Decades of psychobiological research, including century-long scientfically acquired knowledge on the effect of poisons such as heavy metals on the brain, show that mood and mental states can and do derive fromorganic origins. Meanwhile state-credentialed MD's are writing books and articles about how biological psychiatry is "pseudoscience", a"myth", and a "fraud". On *this* subject the present generation is corrupt, and is not going to give up its intellectual commitment to the psychobabble it received in med school. On the issue of MCS, ascribing "affective disorders" to "psychologicalf actors" is an opinion which is rammed through as Science. It is accompanied by dismissive descriptions of mind states and behavior of the patients, with all kinds of unscientific judgements andassumptions as to 1) whether those mind states and behavior arelegitimate (e.g. fear of chemicals, stress of chronic illness), and 2)whether the mind states and behavior have an organic or non-organic origin. MCS *will* receive a fair hearing only when the medical profession gives up its intellecutal commitment to the teachings of psychology as the only explanation for how mind states and behavior alter with disease. You asked me for evidence of "mind-body conceptual dualism" and I just gave an example from a psychobabbling physician in this thread. Your technique is to bait and throw out idiotic flak, so that now we can have a separate existential debate as to whether there really is adualistic mind-body conception in modern medicine. Yes, physicians do recognize a connection between the two--they call it somatization disorder. That is, your boyfriend broke up with you and you are self-pitiful due to your past child raising and have along history of maladaptive behaviors and you have sunken into depression and can't concentrate and now your immunity has sunk and now you have an infection etc etc. They may *also* talk about a"psychological component" as being the result of chronic stress from the illness. But the medical profession is selective about when the connection operates in one direction vs. the other. The fact is, there isn't an economy for the problem of chronic mercury and lead exposure causing maladaptive dysfunctional unhealthy minds and behaviors. Not because the science doesn't exist to support it. But because the economy doesn't exist to produce the professional intellect to study, talk about, and treat it. The psychotherapists and psychologists would be in less demand. There would be no drugs to patent. Hence the facts are dropped from consciousness. That mercury and lead f**k up people's emotions and minds (in addition to a hundred other symptoms) is so dropped out of consciousness that MD's can write books that argue that Biological Psychiatry is a fraud. As a result, one must conclude that MCS is not caused by poisons--which just about everyone who has the illness and has clinical experience treating it argues--but rather is a somatization disorder. This is how economy and professional cultures distort reality and allow ingrained assumptions and bias to manipulate and distort the process of scientific inquiry. No, many physicians recognize that they are often dealing with illnesses that involve both the mind & the body. It would seem as if you are attributing their admission of this fact to some sort of denial instead. Incorrect. But commonly the same conclusion that some patients erroneously arrive at if the doc declines to attribute the illness to physical factors alone. This thread is in the context of MCS. Within the context of this subject physicians *do not* generally conceive or discuss depression*or* anxiety in any terms other than the psychologist's, regardless *how* the psychologist constructs the relationship, it is the*psychologist's* constructiona and the psychologist's ideology. The very own terminology employed by the author of the medical textbook cited, who is at the pro-MCS end of the debate *within* the mainstream, is that it is an illness with "psychological factors". Since you mention arthritis in the context of this thread on MCS (which is a disease its propopents argue is the result of*poisoning*), I will say that poisons such as lead and mercury commonly causes brain symptoms *first*, because these poisons are emically attracted to brain tissue. The first stage of these poisonings is commonly brain symptoms only. Patients may suffer depression or anxiety for *years* before the symptoms originating in organs *below neck* emerge in sufficient degree to cause the patient to seek care. So the depression in these cases does *not* follow arthritis and the depression is not something "psychological" *asdistinct* from the physical. The depression is not of the"psychological" domain. It is a physical symptom no less than arthritis. It is not a "component" and it is not a "factor". It is a*symptom*. The problem is conceptualizing depression and anxiety as being in adifferent category than "physical" symptoms. This division in thought is reflected by your own use of language and the very manner in which you discuss depression in relation to other symptoms. Depression commonly bears no relation to the other symptoms except they both share a similar cause in some *poison* which has attacked the brain together with other organs in the body.This conceptualizing is largely responsible for the opposition to these diseases by the medical profession. Depression is not a *component* by "a priori" assumption. If doctors want to assume the nature of the pathology in a conceptual framework and language *originated by psychologists*, then they should seek psychology as a career and *not* human physiology. If doctors want to educate us about how depression affects human health--but *not* how mercury and lead affect affect brain and emotional and mental health--then they should be psychologists and lecture on Ophrah Winfrey, but *not* manipulate the research and interpretation of MCS research by projecting their own indoctrination onto reality. Depression needn't be a *component* and it needn't be a *factor *simply because psychologists (and physicians loyal to their ideology) insist that it be so. I do not agree that I am arguing with myself and I do not agree we are simply talking about terminology. I have a good first-hand understanding of the disease, I have a good understanding of non-mainstream discussions of the disease, and I have good understanding of mainstream discussions of the disease. Within the mainstream the depression/anxiety is presently discussed as being a"factor" or "component"--*not* a symptom. Ten years ago the depression/anxiety was discussed as being *causative*. There has beena gradual shift in language as the disorder has been *grudgingly*accepted as being somatic, but the acceptance has been gradual, in which the depression/anxiety has altered from being "primary" to being a "factor" or a "component". No this is not simply terminology but reflects changing conceptions of the disease as the medical society isslowly accepting that chemical intolerance exists, but cannot shake lose its belief system for how depression and anxiety play a role in these diseases. You say that much is not understood about the disease. Then I expect that the medical society which you defend *suspend* its assumptiosn about depression/anxeity being primary *or* a "component" or "factor"in any causative way regarding chemical intolerance, and to cease using language which communicates that very conception. A neurologist who has decribed what actually happens in MCS is that the brain is abnormally stimulated by the chemical and an electrochemical reaction occurs in the brain in which the neurotoxicant glutamate is released and brain cells swell and the patients suffers debiliitating symptoms. He further states that this process is a process of ongoing injury to brain cells, a disease of pre-existing brain cell injury with continuing brain cell injury uponchemical exposures. He reached these conclusions after studying changes in EEG measurements in which patients were exposed tochemicals such as paint, gasoline, perfume, lacquer, etc. He found wildly altering EEG measurements upon chemical exposure and found evidence of dementia in the patient in various areas of the brain, with brain function deteriorating upon exposure. This neurologist'sattempt 10 years ago to gather a scientific audience for his findingsresearch was frustrated and obstructed while at the same time descriptions by mainstream medical scientists and professionals of "affective disorders" being primary or a causitive "factor" or"component" are accepted without question. I think that if one examines the *neurological* observations made and explanations advanced for what is happening in the brain upon chemical exposures, one would find the descriptions of "affective disorders" and "somatization disorders" as being causitive "components"/"factors" to be asinine in their utter vacuity with regard to the subject. So I do not even agree with the primacy which is given to anxiety/depression in these diseases because examinations of the disease which actually have some neurobiological depth find that anxeity/depression have little to do with the disease process. It is a sideshow produced by persons who know nothing of the disease and are prefectly content to send both the patients and neurological investigations into their disease into the garbage chute. What has been occuring has been a type of medical and sociological final solution to a disease and its sufferers which appear to be bizarre to many uninformed. But because the numbers of affected is so high, the culture and the society is forced to make some kind of adjustments in its willingness to admit the reality of the disease, but because it resists explanations outside of the intellectual box it has been taught, it still cannot accept chemical intolerance because it cannot fit the emical intolerance together with the affective disorders, because it is not willing to alter its dogma regarding how affective disorders present themselves with other brain symptoms in body-brain diseases. No I'm sorry but this is not simply about terminology. Don't kid yourselves. If you think the debate is resolved by physicians who like to throw around big terms like "somatization" as if they are experts on the topic, don't kid yourselves. Go get your Shrink's license and do the kind psycho babbling and psycho labelling instead of passing yourselves off as honest scientists. In that role, rather than as the frustrated shrinks you presently are, you can get all the hard-ons you want writing profiles for Abnormal Psychology journals. By the way, I just recently spoke to a mother of an autistic child who said her child has "raging" chemical sensitivities. This I think will demand some more inventive, delusional, and self-elevating psychobabble from frustrated psychologists in the physicians lounge. Autistic children make good meat for physicians contemptuous of new diseases which stretch their education. Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity syndromes are beyond the medical education and intellect of the present generation. The medical textbooks which properly deal with these diseases medically and scientifically will be written by the next generation. The present generation of sci/med professionals generally will protect its intellectual turf until it retires, and hese patients will be scoffed at, ridiculed, marginalized etc. until fresh yound minds, which will not find these diseases to be strange, will give these diseases the study and respect they deserve The Junk Yard Dog Jan-the man D-bot What happens when you have gut problems, doesnt this interfere with how your body absorbs nutrients? Then you have to worry about constipation, This can cause an increase in ammonia levels(Another SERIOUS toxin that causes damage to the brain) I think I had also read that Dr Wakefield tested the spinal fluid of children and found the kids had the measles virus in the spinal cord, it would also be in the brain. I think pediatrician's would be wise to check and see if their handicapped children also have the measles virus in the spinal cord... |
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Parents and Professionals in support of Dr Andrew Wakefield
Jan Drew wrote:
"Jeff" wrote in message news:BUmAj.80$yD3.14@trnddc05... Kevysmom wrote: Does that mean that you don't consider Wakefield's article in the Lancet as evidence? After all, Wakefield got 55,000 pounds from the Legal Aid Board, which was seeking evidence to use against vaccine makers so they could make more money. And, 10 of 12 coauthors retracted the conclusion of the article, too. Do you have proof of this claim, Jeff. http://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-deer-1.htm *Selected investigations* http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/mmr4.htm Thank you. This response clearly admits that he had a grant for £55,000. He claims that it went to the hospital, not himself. However, very few research grants are to individuals; the vast majority of them are to individuals. This is exactly the same type of situation where you claim that vaccine researchers have a conflict of interest, because they get funding for some of their research form drug makers (in this case, Wakefield was getting funding from an anti-vaccine lawyer). So clearly, if you claim that vaccine researchers have a conflict of interest, then by the same standards, Wakefield has a conflict of interest. The retraction: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15016483 TRust the government. Poor Putz. Nice name-calling. Not appropriate behavior for a mature adult. That is a Medline link to the actual retraction. The Lancet is not, as far as I know, a government publication. Why would the coauthors retract, hmmm. Were they afraid they might have been mistreated like Dr Wakefield? Perhaps they thought it was crappy science, too. You chose not to answer why 10 of 12 coauthors chose to retract the conclusion. Jeff Have a great night! Jeff On Mar 7, 9:02 pm, Jeff wrote: Kevysmom wrote: Mark, If you are going to make claims like that against Dr Wakefield, Please back it up with peer reviewed scientific studies. (With no conflicts of interest) Thank you Marko! P.S Does that mean that you don't consider Wakefield's article in the Lancet as evidence? After all, Wakefield got 55,000 pounds from the Legal Aid Board, which was seeking evidence to use against vaccine makers so they could make more money. And, 10 of 12 coauthors retracted the conclusion of the article, too. Jeff ... |
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Parents and Professionals in support of Dr Andrew Wakefield
On Mar 9, 12:19*pm, Jeff wrote:
Thank you. This response clearly admits that he had a grant for £55,000. He claims that it went to the hospital, not himself. However, very few research grants are to individuals; the vast majority of them are to individuals. This is exactly the same type of situation where you claim that vaccine researchers have a conflict of interest, because they get funding for some of their research form drug makers (in this case, Wakefield was getting funding from an anti-vaccine lawyer). So clearly, if you claim that vaccine researchers have a conflict of interest, then by the same standards, Wakefield has a conflict of interest. Superior analogy! Right on the point! Shows the anti-vax double standards for what they are. |
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Parents and Professionals in support of Dr Andrew Wakefield
"Jeff" wrote in message news:Z5UAj.4590$hr3.2544@trnddc04... However, very few research grants are to individuals; the vast majority of them are to individuals. LOL "As for the assertion that Dr Wakefield tried to make a personal profit from manufacturing a vaccine in competition to the multinational drug companies, it became clear during Mr Tahan's evidence - and that of previous witnesses - that firstly, this was not a vaccine against measles, but a therapy that might ameliorate the adverse effects caused by measles vaccine; that Dr Wakefield had actually sought partnership with pharmaceutical companies to develop the therapy and finally that all profits from the patent, had it become a viable product, would actually have gone to the Royal Free Medical School.....When Miss Smith took Tarhan through his evidence-in-chief, she clearly wanted to make it appear that Wakefield had taken out the patents on transfer factor, in order to make profit for himself. With the most reliable air, Tarhan disputed this. In fact although Dr Wakefield, exasperated with the time it might take, had moved to take out two patents himself, Tarhan was quick to point out that they were taken out either in the name of Free Medic as the UCL business venture was then known, or the Royal Free Medical School." |
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Parents and Professionals in support of Dr Andrew Wakefield
Mark Probert wrote:
On Mar 9, 12:19*pm, Jeff wrote: Thank you. This response clearly admits that he had a grant for £55,000. He claims that it went to the hospital, not himself. However, very few research grants are to individuals; the vast majority of them are to individuals. This is exactly the same type of situation where you claim that vaccine researchers have a conflict of interest, because they get funding for some of their research form drug makers (in this case, Wakefield was getting funding from an anti-vaccine lawyer). So clearly, if you claim that vaccine researchers have a conflict of interest, then by the same standards, Wakefield has a conflict of interest. Superior analogy! Right on the point! Shows the anti-vax double standards for what they are. And don't forget that Wakefield had a patent on a replacement for the MMR vaccine, so it was in his interest to scare people. I would say "Four legs good, two legs bad" but most of the alties wouldn't get the reference. -- Peter Bowditch aa #2243 The Millenium Project http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles Australian Council Against Health Fraud http://www.acahf.org.au Australian Skeptics http://www.skeptics.com.au To email me use my first name only at ratbags.com |
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