The TimesOnline, UK, recently published an article titled “Vaccine required to stop this madness, GP on patients who think they know better.” (1) The article reports that there have been 150 eating cases in the last three months in a city outside of London. Ten have been admitted to hospital with pneumonia with a high fever, a dry cough, sore eyes and a blotchy rash. Its author, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, a GP in Hackney, East London, went on to say:

“Anti-MMR activists criticize the many safety studies of MMR: however, there are no studies on the safety or efficacy of the separate vaccine schedule (although it is certain that the unavoidable delays in administration of the vaccines will leave children vulnerable to these infections)…. The increase in measles is a combination of
extreme skepticism towards established sources of authority in science and medicine and anxiety about environmental threats to our well-being has led many to put
their faith in self-proclaimed mavericks and alternative healers and charlatans…Choosing to reject MMR to avoid a
entirely speculative risk of autism exposes children to the very real risks of measles.

To get the full impact, search for the article through your favorite search engine and read it all. However, this clipping gives the flavor of what has been said and the rebuttal that follows:

First: Let’s talk about the 10 children (6 percent) who were admitted to the hospital. Did they have underlying conditions that made them more susceptible to a severe case of measles? The other 94 percent who had the infection apparently recovered without incident. Did any of the ten who were hospitalized have an adverse outcome? And since measles is a viral disease, besides hydration and possibly oxygen, what other really helpful agents were given? Antibiotics would not treat viral pneumonia.

No one wants their child to get sick or be admitted to the hospital. However, ask this question of any parent who has seen firsthand their child develop autism after MMR: Would you have preferred a few weeks of illness and “inconsolable misery,” even if it included a hospital stay, to months and years of daily and intractable disease?

Second: The “established authority of medicine” is exactly why parents have chosen to challenge and distrust it. The medical authorities have refused to listen to the testimonies of the parents. They won’t even recognize that autism can be the result of the RMM in at least some kids.

Instead, pompous doctors, “we know better”, declare that the connection between MMR and autism is “impossible and unproven”. His brazen claims are based on extensive epidemiological studies, similar to those used by the tobacco industry to prove there was no connection between smoking and lung cancer.

Third: The insulting arrogance of mainstream practitioners preaching dogma is no longer a surprise, but remains repulsive. Name-calling was something we were told to stop when we were in kindergarten. Does the act of wearing a lab coat and hanging a stethoscope around the neck make a “self-proclaimed” expert any more correct than any other “self-proclaimed expert” who prefers civilian clothes to a white coat? Why is a drug-funded challenger to the status quo a “quack”? Treating disease and promoting health are not synonyms.

Four: Do parents who have witnessed the harm of MMR to their children consider the risk “totally speculative”? Do those over 40 who remember having measles as a child remember it as a “disastrous event”? Even this small outbreak of 150 children shows that 94 percent recover without incident. Is “speculative risk” worth the risk of a lifetime disaster?

Everyone interested in how vaccinations became mandatory should read the book, “Corporal Affairs”, by Nadja Durbach. It is a history of the anti-vaccination movement from 1853, the date the first Compulsory Vaccination Act was passed in the UK, to 1907, when ‘conscientious objection’ was allowed to stop the politically motivated anti-vaccination revolt . Conventional “wisdom” and its dominance have been challenged and resisted since its first embrace of vaccination. Vaccination was considered then — as now — scientific experimentation. Physicians were able to carry out their “enchanted torment” on patients in the 19th century by keeping the public ignorant and in awe of their scientific expertise. The Internet had pulled back the curtain and the “wonder” had almost stopped.

Threatened doctors are left with insults as a defense.

Physicians are the third leading cause of death in the US, causing more than 225,000 deaths each year. Several years ago, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that adverse drug reactions among hospitalized patients caused more than 100,000 deaths per year. Who are the “real charlatans”? Those who harm people for a living, using unproven psychiatric drugs, vaccines, and chemotherapeutics calling them “Science”, or those who work to heal the body using whole foods, nutrients, and agents that remove known poisons, such as mercury and lead, from the body. body?

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(1) “A vaccine is required to stop this madness”, a GP on patients who think they know better. TimesOnline.UK. September 1, 2007