Success of fight for MMR jab rethink
Friday 28th March 2008, 11:15AM GMT.
A Telford mother campaigning for a rethink on giving children the controversial MMR jab has described her latest protest as “very successful”.
Allison Edwards, of Muxton Lane, Muxton, yesterday led 100 campaigners at a protest outside a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing in London.
She led supporters of Dr Andrew Wakefield who, together with two other doctors, faces being struck off for professional misconduct at a reconvened hearing expected to last four months.
Mrs Edwards, 44, insists the MMR jab is responsible for her 10-year-old son Jonathon’s autism after he was given the injection aged 14 months.
The mum-of-two said: “Reports in the media are beginning to say what we believe, which is that some people have been trying their hardest to discredit Dr Wakefield.
“We support him because he merely sought to flag up warnings about the safety of the MMR vaccine.
“I know what happened to my son and I want doctors to be allowed to continue looking into this vaccine without fear of being hauled before the GMC.
“Parents have not been listened to and children should not be the sacrificial lambs in all this because they are what counts, not Government policy.”
She added that her campaign would welcome a return to offering three separate jabs instead of one MMR vaccine, but that because patents have expired she believes it can never be achieved.
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So, if a doctor has legitimate concerns, they’d rather he swept them under the carpet?
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Repeated proper scientific studies (unlike those of the discredited Dr Wakefield) have shown absolutely no link between MMR and autism. Instead, the false results of his research, fuelled by tabloid bad science and hysteria bordering on medieval levels of superstition has led stupid people to avoid inocculating their children, thus putting other children, notably young babies, at risk of measles.
Some have died from this nasty illness. Anyone not innoculating their kids should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
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So Peter, the fact that a mother sees her child descend into autism after receiving a vaccine is discredited by “proper scientific studies”? The IMMEDIATE EXPERIENCE of the mother and the child are in your eyes invalid when faced with a piece of paper written by people who have never met the mother or the child in question, and who now claim that what the child experienced and the mother witnessed happen in front of her eyes has no validity?
What kind of world are we living in then?
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