I wonder what we can deduce from the judgement that serial publication of Brian Deer's articles, full of familiar allegations for which many challenges exist [2], were of "high global importance" [1]? As it is, to my certain knowledge, several substantive letters questioning Deer's interpretations and findings have been blocked, and outside the traditions of academic and scientific publications the defence of them has been legalistic, technical and incomplete [3,4,5]. Most noticeably, Deer has never been required to return to BMJ's columns to meet any of the criticisms.

In 2000, Deer's web site was registered at an Atlanta, Georgia residential address less than five miles away from US Centers For Disease Control headquarters and the Emory University campus where accused CDC fraudster Poul Thorsen M.D., indicted by Danish authorities for money-laundering CDC tax dollars, used to hang out.

While the domain and other pieces of evidence linking Deer to Atlanta may be a matter for US intelligence officials, the sudden disclosures that UK media are highly trained in spy tactics indicate the elaborate cover up for Brian Deer forming in the UK media

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http://www.whale.to/vaccine/brian_deer_blunders.html

Did Godlee apply the same standard when looking at Mr Deer`s work?Of course Brian Deer wrote it all himself for zero payment(Murdoch paid everyone else you were screwed Brian). Brian being the type of guy he is him having a heady diploma in Psychology 5 minutes work..

"Fiona Godlee, editor of the British Medical Journal, said the practice continues to be a problem in the medical literature.

"Guest authorship and ghostwriting is absolutely unacceptable and we have been saying this for a long time. It is misleading, a form of fraud, and it would be good to see much stiffer penalites and legal liabilities for people who involve themselves in this," she said.

"The benefits of being a guest author are still substantial. You get a piece of work under your name that you didn't have to bother writing, the company involved will push to get it published in a high-profile journal, and visibility, promotion and all sorts of things come your way, not to mention international travel and speaking at conferences."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/02/scientists-ghostwritten-articles-fraud?CMP=twt_fd

This has an odor. If nothing else it is very sad. It is possibly an attempt at trivializing the autism issue and Newscorp's link if, as suspected, they have skeletons to hide. It may also have a vein of projection in it as it involves autism and secrets shouted out at work.

From "The Sun" tabloid.

"Autism makes me shout out my sex secrets at work"

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/3731853/Autism-makes-me-shout-out-my-sex-secrets-at-work.html

"News Group Newspapers Ltd

News Group Newspapers Ltd publishes the tabloid newspaper The Sun. The News of the World was another tabloid newspaper owned by the company; however its closure was announced on 7 July 2011, following new evidence about a phone hacking scandal at the newspaper. The final issue was released on 10 July 2011.

"The News of the World was purchased by Murdoch in January 1969. The Sun was acquired in October 1969 from International Publishing Corporation.

Murdoch states that he acts as a "traditional proprietor"; exercising editorial control on major issues such as which political party to back in a general election or policy on Europe."

Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International

With all due respect to bulldogs and their owners... I didn't think they could get any uglier.

I guess I stand corrected.

Terrific work, John and Adriana! The amount of lies and illegal-immoral escapades that these folks are capable of----and Mr. Deer never looked so perfectly appropriate. Guard dogs can be SO stupid as they have no sense of loyalty.

I have also read about antidepressants like Prozac and other SSRI's that cause violent behavior in young males. Many of the mass murders that have shocked society have been committed by young men and teenage boys who were taking these meds. The media, of course, has covered it up. You will always hear about their mental and emotional problems, but never the meds they were on. This was the case at Columbine with Dylan and Harris, also at VA Tech and the slaying of the Amish girls at Silvermines, PA. It was also the case with the young man in Germany a few years ago. There are more, but I forget the specific cases. Look it up. I assure you, you will be shocked that this has never reached the attention of the public. It's one more grievous sin committed by the media in collusion with Big Pharma. They are destroying our children from birth into young adulthood. There are no words to describe the depth of this EVIL.

Carol

Of course, 1991 was the year Richard Smith became editor. When Deer published his first article on Wakefield in 2004 Smith was already on hand jumping to conclusions and making prejudicial comments:

'Dr Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal, said, however: "That MMR paper is the best example there has ever been of a very, very dodgy paper that has created a lot of discomfort and misery."'

When did BMJ hit the skids? 1991? _Let Them Eat Prozac_ by David Healy suggests this might have been the watershed year.

"When the question of suicide [related to Prozac] first hit the media, spokespersons for Lilly stated that they had analyzed clinical trial samples of several thousand patients for evidence of anything like this--and found none. The data behind this claim finally surfaced in the _British Medical Journal_ on September 25, 1991, in an article by Charles Beasley and colleagues from Lilly that purported to be a meta-analysis of Lilly's clinical trials, examining evidence from 3,065 patients....The BMJ in 1991 faced a dilemma. As far as I can make out, the Beasley paper was the first major article to appear in a major journal with a company-only authorship line. Its acceptance by the BMJ probably facilitated the appearance of a great number of other articles with predominantly company authorship lines in major journals....At a 1998 meeting on new antipsychotic drugs at the American College of Neuropsychopathology conference, delegates bewailed the fact that published clinical trials now invariably supported the sponsor's compound. They complained that some of these company-only authored articles on new drugs contained data that didn't add up; efforts to reanalyze the data independently indicated the data had been massaged beyond acceptable limits"

The picture should say no insult meant to bulldog`s poor dog having that face imposed on it..

I read yesterday that out of the initial 4000 suspected names hacked(thousands more now) the Police were only at name 153... someone let Brian know that his friends the Murdoch`s paid everyone else and he is the only one not paid Brian your being screwed ...

"The company then trawled through other documents, including its cash authorization records, and found 130,000 pounds’ worth of payments to a group of officers over several years, according to officials with knowledge of the inquiry. Included within those records was documentation of a thousand-pound cash withdrawal around the date of Mr. Goodman’s e-mail concerning his purchase of the Green Book from a police officer, according to one person with knowledge of the investigation."

New York Times

"Mr. Goodman said that he did not want to go into detail about cash payments because everyone involved could “go to prison for this,” "

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/world/europe/30letter.html?_r=4&hp