Dr Le Fanu Breaks Ranks to Condemn the GMC in Dr. Andrew Wakefield Decision

(Managing Editor's Note: You can read Dr. Wakefield's complete analysis of the "Lancet 12" in his new book,  Callous Disregard from Skyhorse Publishing.  Visit Dr. Wakefield's website HERE.)

By John Stone

A senior British doctor and  journalist, James Le Fanu, has broken ranks with both professions to condemn the GMC decision against Andrew Wakefield and John Walker-Smith. Writing in his regular column in the Daily Telegraph under the headline ‘MMR vaccine: the hidden hand of powerful forces’ (HERE) with the sub-heading ‘Doctor's Diary: Conspiracy theories and the GMC's recent ruling to strike professors Andrew Wakefield and John Walker-Smith off the register’ puts the entire farrago in perspective in four short paragraphs:

“It is not necessary to be a conspiracy theorist to recognise that the General Medical Council's recent ruling to strike professors Andrew Wakefield and John Walker-Smith off the register had the fingerprints of the medical establishment all over it. They had, it was alleged, brought the profession into disrepute by showing a callous disregard to the children in the (in)famous study investigating the possible role of the MMR vaccine in inducing a regressive variant of autism associated with severe bowel symptoms.

“But this charge against them, as everyone knows, cannot possibly be true. Professor Walker-Smith, who supervised the investigation, is, from personal experience and by common consent, the epitome of the saintly doctor – "dedicated, honorable, held in the highest regard, a man of the highest calibre in his integrity, professionalism and clinical ability", as just one of the hundreds of affidavits from colleagues around the world puts it.

“And so to the opinion of the parents of the vulnerable children whose best interests he had allegedly disregarded. "We were all treated with the utmost professionalism and respect… were kept fully informed about the investigations recommended… they were carried out without distress to our children, etc, etc."

“It seems only sensible, given this moral confusion that would portray a decent and honest man as deceitful and exploitative, to reserve judgment about the GMC's verdict and to speculate what lies behind it. Leaving aside the question of whether the MMR vaccine is implicated in this form of autism – as the parents' accounts would certainly suggest – it is perhaps not unreasonable to detect the hidden hand of those powerful forces for whom the crushing of a professional reputation is a price worth paying for the continuation of the ever-expanding child immunisation programme. “

It would obviously be infinitely easier for Dr Le Fanu to say nothing like everyone else. Instead, he sees it all and says it all – the disregarded families, the scape-goated doctors, and a bureacracy out of control in defence of an industry driven public health policy. No, you do not need a conspiracy theory, you just need to see the modern state for what it is. What a good man, and what courageous one!

John Stone is UK Editor for Age of Autism.

Comments

[Benedetta]

Jenny Allan; it was a bovine vaccine for a diarhea disease. Seems like any disease with the runs can not be easily fixed with a vaccine.

Julie do you know what it mean "dignosed nonaccidental" ?

[Autism Grandma]

Re:Post by B Caron:

"At 73 (almost 74) I can tell anyone who will listen that we NEVER saw young people when I was growing up with ANY of the symptoms being exhibited by all these young people today. I find it extraordinary that ANYONE would just swallow any explanation that did not include a link between autism and something which is happening within the first year to two years of a baby's life. It makes absolutely NO sense to dismiss any theory which might shed light on a way to reverse this situation!!"

YES!!! Where is the COMMON SENSE in all this?

"I have never had a flu shot........and SURPRISE, I have never had the flu either."

By your intelligent writing you obviously don't have Alzheimers either, while your peers have a 50% chance of this horrific diagnosis--the same peers who religiously get the flu shots every year and bioaccumulate all that mercury and aluminum until sadly the brain will no longer function correctly due to the saturation of these heavy metals and depletion of the Methyl B 12 detox pathway.

We can lose our brain power slowly but surely with annual flu shots or we can lose our children's brain power quickly but surely by simply following the vaccine schedule.

[Amanda Blinn]

Kudos to the Daily Telegraph for running this.

[cmo]

The GMC in the UK has shot themselves in the foot on this one.

In the US, they used to have measles partys in the summer so the kids would not get sick during the school year.

The UK & US public will no longer buy into the endless fraud provided by the media which is basically the PR branch of the drug industry.

[Natasa]

Thanks for the link Julie, his books sound very interesting
http://www.jameslefanu.com/books

[Theresa Cedillo]

Thank you John and thank you Dr. Le Fanu for your courage!

[Julie Leonardo]

Unfortunately, it seems as though James Le Fanu is more "alternative" in his thoughts than most doctors are, so his outcry may hold no weight for other doctors. Sad, but true.

http://www.jameslefanu.com/

[Jenny Allan]

It's amazing the way that the veterinary and farming community are far more proactive about swiftly withdrawing possibly harmful vaccines as a precautionary measure. Are our children worth less than calves or is this another example of how the 'big business' lobbies are so much more powerful than a minority of concerned parents and relatives?

http://www.thecattlesite.com/news/30972/vaccine-withdrawn-to-aid-bleeding-calf-syndrome-research

'Vaccine Withdrawn To Aid Bleeding Calf Syndrome Research
EU - Pfizer Animal Health has voluntarily stopped sales of PregSure BVD, a vaccine against Bovine Virus Diarrhea, in all EU countries with immediate effect to allow the company and other stakeholders to continue a comprehensive investigation of the possible causes of Bovine Neonatal Pancytopaenia (BNP) syndrome (bleeding calf syndrome) and any possible links to the use of PregSure BVD.'

[Natasa]

What Garbo said.

Also it seems that the only reason they let Prof Murch off the hook was the very open and vocal support from his colleagues - remember the letters they wrote in just before the verdict... Perhaps GMC realised they could not get away with that one, but still thought Prof Walker-Smith was an easy target because he was retired and no longer surrounded by supportive colleagues.

[Jenny Allan]

James Le Fanu's Telegraph article and the recent research findings on gastrointestinal flora differences in autistic children carried out by Imperial College London, are both discussed in the BMJ responses to Brian Deer's ridiculous BMJ article questioning whether 'Autistic Enterocolitis' exists!!
Have a read!!
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/340/apr15_2/c1127#234733

[Twyla]

Wow! This is amazing!! AnaB, I was thinking the same thing -- the trickle that starts a cascade? Like the boy saying, "The emperor's wearing no clothes!" Except that this isn't a boy but a grown man and doctor! Good for the Telegraph for publishing this.

[Sheri Nakken, RN, MA, Homeopath]

It is on amazon.co.uk
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1616081694/wellwithin-21/202-2017433-621340
and says 3 weeks for delivery
and there are used copies on marketplace

many ordered it from US too
Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy
Andrew J. Wakefield (Author)

Thanks to Dr Le Fanu for speaking the truth

[B Caron]

Something, either in the environment (I doubt that one) or in the way babies are treated is causing this gigantic number of autistic young people.

At 73 (almost 74) I can tell anyone who will listen that we NEVER saw young people when I was growing up with ANY of the symptoms being exhibited by all these young people today. I find it extraordinary that ANYONE would just swallow any explanation that did not include a link between autism and something which is happening within the first year to two years of a baby's life. It makes absolutely NO sense to dismiss any theory which might shed light on a way to reverse this situation!!

Research the polio vaccines and the contaminants in those..........at least one foreign country refused one of the early polio vaccines because of contaminants. When either researchers or drug companies (or both) make mistakes they go to work very quickly like a bunch of furtive cats burying what might expose their whereabouts.......totally disgusting.

Anybody out there buying the H1N1 vaccine? I wouldn't touch that stuff with the proverbial ten foot pole. I have never had a flu shot........and SURPRISE, I have never had the flu either.

[Garbo]

One gets a sense that perhaps in striking the esteemed Dr. Walker-Smith along with Wakefield, they have overplayed their hand.

[kerbob]

It's not just the medical establishment.

Andrew recently said in the past while researching, he was to rendezvous with a doctor at a train station and the way it was described the only thing Wakefield knew at the time was the guy would be wearing a red carnation on his lapel.

Sounds like spooks to me. Sounds like UK doctors live in fear looking back over their shoulder for a British agent.

I saw somewhere else that his new book is strictly not for sale in the UK. Frankly, if they are mean and nasty enough to yank Andrew's license I wouldn't give the UK government a claim to a single penny's worth of entitlement either.

[AnaB]

I'm hoping this sends out a signal to other doctors who are shaking their heads knowing what this was really about, and then begins a slow trickle, which then becomes a cascade.

[spacekitty]

Yes, it makes you wonder how many doctors are out there who want to speak out, have been intimidated. I feel sorry for them as it must eat them alive to know the truth, yet not speak it.... especially when innocent children are involved. Prayers to all the doctors who need to get in touch with their soul.

[kathy blanco]

and more will do the same, just you watch, their conscience will bite them, and they will have to stand for the true and honest integrity that is Dr Wakefield. Let the mahem and fallout begin, and may the medical establishment no longer be the most powerful and established "scientific" force in the world. There is such thing as science, but it your doing it to protect a liability, it's not.

[jen]

Go James! It is heartening to see someone stand up for these doctors. There have to be alot of others who could support his findings and speak up for him.