Dr. Wakefield, if you are reading this, please know that there are many parents out there who don't believe the media hype. In fact, we see through the obfuscation.

You are a true hero.

Keith corrected himself last night. Now if we only could silence Dr. Snyderman on the today show. This morning was a class example as they did a segment on medical myths.

So now Autism is a myth?

If Wakefield was the "worse" person in the world, well then, we are all going to hell for sure.

He is the epitomy of descency, honor, and valour.

My kids/family will hold him up in heaven as their hero...and guess where Wakefield is really going heh? All these naysayers and liars...are going to a very firey hell for what they have done to our children.

I caught something on the radio, very interesting today...and it applies to us families. The raid on the peanut factory...the FBI gets in there, and are going to ask the president, why he sent products that were contaminated, knowing they were to the american public. The first thing they will ask the president of the company to do, is to partake in his own products....gee...if we only thought of the same strategy...imagine where we would be now? This time, not only the presidents of those companies, but also their family members...do you think they would call it safe then?

Fortunately, Dr. Offit's raging liberal pal has a viewing audience of about twelve. We know different about Andrew Wakefield, but it was comical to see once again a completely maudlin vaccine shill like Olbermann do his very hackneyed fussy wussy drama queen rampage act.

He probably pulls the same act when he has to stand in line at Blockbuster.

Wow, I didn't think to post here waht I wrote. Good job guys, these are great emails to send. My disappointment is huge. Keith did exactly what he called the "worse" person out for doing. I am so utterly disappointed.

Here is my letter:

Dear Keith:

I am a big fan of your show – a loyal viewer. But tonight you really made a big mistake. You based your choice of "Worst Person" on a stupid article written by an unqualified person.

Dr. Andrew Wakefield did not create the vaccine scare. He responded to concerns raised by parents.

Dr. Wakefield is like the tip of an iceberg. He is more visible in the news than the thousands of parents reporting vaccine injuries and the developing science supporting a vaccine-autism link.

As the mom of a 16-year-old with autism, I know a lot of parents who report that their kids have serious digestive issues including inflammatory bowel disease. And a lot of parents report seeing their children’s adverse reactions to vaccines followed by regression into autism with accompanying health issues.

There is a growing body of scientific evidence indicating that inflammation plays a major role in autism. Studies published in respected peer-reviewed journals have found in people with autism:

· inflammation in autopsied brains

· inflammatory cytokines in the spinal fluid

· auto-antibodies to the myelin basic protein that covers nerves

· imbalance between various components of the immune system such as Th-1 & Th-2 cells.

We have an autism epidemic. The huge increase during the past 20 years was recently confirmed in a study at UC Davis. This increase cannot be the result of genes alone. This increase has paralleled the huge increase in the number of vaccines received by babies and children during the same time period.

We also have increased rates of severe allergies, asthma, and auto-immune disorders in today’s children. What could be causing this? We are giving an unprecedented number of vaccines – two dozen vaccines by the age of 2, and another dozen before school starts – containing multiple live viruses, aluminum, mercury, and a number of other ingredients. This is unprecedented in human history! The purpose of aluminum in vaccines is as an "adjuvant" to provoke a stronger response from the immune system. Are we over-provoking infants’ developing immune systems? Some kids seem able to tolerate this aggressive vaccine schedule, but others are not.

My daughter, a healthy toddler, had a seizure after receiving the MMR at the same time as the varicela vaccine. After that she had high fevers for about a month, and then always developed a high fever whenever she got sick. Nobody else in our family has ever had a seizure, and she never had a seizure before or since. But she was fortunate. She recovered.

Many many intelligent educated parents are reporting vaccine injuries in their babies and children. These adverse reactions are summarily dismissed as "coincidental" and not studied by the government agencies and medical organizations who should be working hard to understand, prevent, and treat vaccine reactions.

Can you imagine if the salmonella outbreak was greeted with comments such as, "Just a coincidence! Don’t confuse coincidence with causation! Studies show that there has always been diarrhea and stomach cramps and vomiting – no reason to blame the peanuts! People who blame peanuts are anti-food! They don’t remember what it’s like to have famines! Food is a victim of its own success!"

And are those who work to decrease car and/or airplane accidents called "anti-car" or "anti-airplane"?

I have never seen so much censorship of an issue. We are constantly told that vaccine problems should not be discussed because diseases are dangerous.

I am not anti-vaccine. I understand the value of vaccines. But I question the wisdom of, for example, giving the Hepatitis B vaccine on the date of birth to all babies, most of whom are not even at risk for this disease. Do we really know how well a newborn baby can tolerate this vaccine? My son turned blue and had to be revived by the hospital staff.

And I question the wisdom of giving so many vaccines at once. Little Hannah Poling was a bright, sociable, typically developing toddler until she received 8 vaccines at once and was never the same again. Her parents, a neurologist and a nurse/attorney, filed a claim with the vaccine court and their case was conceded by the government. Google Hannah Poling for more info.

Good things can have unintended consequences. Good medicines can have risk of overdose.

Please please read these books:

"Evidence of Harm" – By David Kirby

"Changing The Course Of Autism - A Scientific Approach for Parents and Physicians" – by Bryan Jepson, M.D. with Jane Johnson; foreword by Katie Wright (daughter of the founders of Autism Speaks)

"Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Development Disorder" – By Karyn Seroussi

Please read Dr. Wakefield’s rebuttal to Brian Deer’s moronic article at http://www.rescuepost.com/files/deer-response.pdf . None of the parents of the kids with autism have complained against Dr. Wakefield. On the contrary, they say that he is one of the only doctors who listened to them and helped their kids.

Also see www.cryshame.co.uk for coverage of Dr. Wakefield's case before the GMC.

Often parents with autism and IBD take their kids to gastroenterologists only to be told, "sorry, nothing I can do – he’s autistic. It’s genetic." Dr. Wakefield is one of a handful of gastroenterologists who respond appropriately to these patients’ very real health problems.

Where are the investigative reporters on the issue of vaccine safety?? We really really need you to learn more about this. Are you being influenced by the pharma companies who put so many ads on your show?

Thank you so so much for reading with an open mind and applying your fine intelligence to these extremely important issues.

Here is what I just sent to Keith Olbermann at:
[email protected]

Excuse the lighter tone of the email, I tried to word it in a manner that lends itself to a "sound bite" format that would also have entertainment value.....maybe more likely for him to read it that way - not sure. He's a bit sarcastic for those that aren't familiar with him and his show.

Keith,

Prior to your appointment of Dr. Andrew Wakefield "The Worst Person in the World", I was a happily brainwashed follower of the Cult of Keith! I thought you did your research and wouldn't get pushed around by the co-evil twins of Big Pharma and Public Health. Apparently I was wrong. Keith, either you or I need to be de-programmed from the brainwashing to which we have succumbed. Please let it be you because I dig your hair!

Seriously, read the Age of Autism Blog and do more research into this topic. I know you're a reasonable and intelligent person so I don't doubt that you will be able to re-examine your position and come to a view that is consistent with your usual analysis.

Dr. Wakefield has been the target of a witch hunt by the vaccine-pushing profiteers. My son had an obvious global regression in his cognitive abilities within days of receiving a set of vaccines at the age of 1 year. I don't have the answers, nobody does, but I know what I saw with my own eyes, and I want the proper research to be done, with no stone unturned. It's along story but it comes down to this: see Dr. Bernadine Healy's CBS news interview here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/12/cbsnews_investigates/main4086809.shtml

Dr. Healy is the former head of the NIH National Institutes of Health and the American Red Cross. If you watch this interview it will be the best 5 minutes you spend this month - well, the most informative anyway.

We don't have the answers and there has been an intentional avoidance of doing the research that would yield some answers (according to Dr. Healy). There should be no sacred cows (vaccines!) in determining the cause or causes of autism. I hope you hear from a lot of us on this topic. I know you can come around.

Dr, Wakefield may have had a small conflict-of-interest in the work he did at one point, but don't you think the wrong of the mass failure to act to protect children such as mine and the other 1 in 94 boys (1 in 150 in general) who develop autism, mass negligence, is actually more of a crime?

I thought you were on of the good guys!

Huge Fan With a Bone to Pick,
Marni

Olberman's comments are on show #2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677#29128976
We see someone oblivious to how autism and GI problems ravage our children. He's ready to attack someone without any understanding of the issue or presenting Dr. Wakefield's response to the charges. He doesn't even pause to ask how Brian Deer obtained confidential hospital records. He's a disgrace to journalism.
Anne Dachel
Media editor

That paragon of scum and villiany that is my antithesis (spell my name backwards) is over on his site celebrating the fact that the media is destroying this man's life. All for a grudge.

What I find humorous and ironic is that this particular individual that runs that bigotted site openly mocks the media for allowing the parents of vaccine injured children to have a voice. What, are we in a Communist state? And then, when the media releases something that is riddled with numerous research errors by someone who has an obvious bias, but it supports the position of those spiteful people, then it is ok. Delicious irony.

What they fail to realize is that the British media will not touch this story. This is why Deer had to release this vituperation on the online Times.

This is mudslinging at its worst, and the brainwashed zombies that plague the internet hate sites are eating it up like candy. These people are supposed to be intelligent....

That linked response paper from Wakefield is beautiful!
Andy Wakefield = hero.