I checked public sources (excluding the Lancet paper itself) to see if I could find the first signs/symptoms of trouble in the Lancet children and who reported it. Here's my non-exhaustive list:

Child 1: delirium 1 wk post MMR vaccination, JWS note

Child 2: head banging 2 wks post MMR, Berelowitz letter

Child 3: fever, rash 2 days post MMR, JWS note, GP letter

Child 4:diarrhea, regression at ? post M, ++ post MMR, parent

Child 5: loss of speech 2 mos. post MMR, parent

Child 6: rash, gaze avoidance ~2 wks post MMR, Casson

Child 7: gaze avoidance, fits 24 hrs post MMR, GP note

Child 8: grand mal seizure 2 wks post MMR, Berelowitz

Child 9: "problems" 2 mos. post MMR, GP note

Child 10: fever, rash, reduced consciousness with measles infection 4 mos after MMR, specialist note

Child 11: "ill" days(?) post MMR, parent letter

Child 12: "frequent illnesses since MMR", GP note

""The judge said the GMC panel failed to address whether Prof Walker-Smith had been doing research or simply investigating symptoms to help treat children. There had been "inadequate and superficial reasoning and, in a number of instances, a wrong conclusion", he said.

The GMC said reforms to disciplinary hearings were being considered.

Chief executive Niall Dickson added: "Today's ruling does not however reopen the debate about the MMR vaccine and autism.

"As Mr Justice Mitting observed in his judgement, 'There is now no respectable body of opinion which supports (Dr Wakefield's) hypothesis, that MMR vaccine and autism/enterocolitis are causally linked'.
"" - BBC News 7 March 2012 Last updated at 06:40 ET

Of course, there's nothing like having the Sunday Times and Dr Evan Harris on your back to make you suddenly revise your scientific opinion!

Main stream media isn't about to provide truthful coverage of this development, because that that would be as big an indictment of themselves, as it is of the farcically corrupt GMC and Lancet.

The silencing of Andrew Wakefield is an enormous crime, so ridiculously devoid of fact that it's success seems to defy reality. Until you stop long enough to realize, that none of it COULD have ever happened without the media. In fact, its doubtful that anyone would be lining up for vaccines now, were it not for the decades of conditioning that we've received from that same media.

There are some brutally ruthless big pharma forces behind Andrew Wakefield's persecution, but even they would be a powerless lot were it not for the enormous influence of main stream media.

The paradigm is all wrong; main stream media doesn't exist to tell the truth. Nor is it a neutered entity simply kept from telling the the truth by its financial ties to big pharma.

Main stream media is an intentionally created entity, that is now and has always been the single biggest tool in big pharmas arsenal. They've been using it for decades to control what the masses see and hear, and to keep them from learning about things that would surely incite them to riot .

Although this truly is an enormous victory for the truth, the general masses will likely never, ever hear about it. Just like every other victory before it.

I have yet to see a single word in the US press about this, or about Poul Thorsen's fraud.

Instead, we are still subjected to a firestorm of articles on how doctors should fire families who refuse vaccines, how schools should shut them out, and how it's not too late to get a flu shot.

Why can't Sharyl Atkisson cover this? Or has she been gagged by CBS?

What about CNN? Wouldn't a story like this actually BOOST their ratings?

I fear that the next step by Big Pharm will be to announce another pandemic to terrorize people into getting more flu shots. Maybe they are busy in their labs right now, splicing a flu virus with HPV, measles, mumps, AND rubella and infecting a few people with it, to make sure that everyone is too scared to turn down the new improved MMRHPV-flu or whatever other new vaccine they are frantically creating.

Mike: The verdict raises questions about whether or not the Lancet should have retracted the paper after the GMC decision, as the reasons for its retraction have now been contradicted by the judge’s decision.

The thirteen original co-authors of the 1998 Lancet case series were members of the Royal Free’s Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group. In 2004, according to Andrew Wakefield's book Callous Disregard, ten of the co-authors signed a letter retracting an interpretation of the paper that it proved that vaccines caused autism, which the paper never actually claimed in the first place. John Walker-Smith, Andrew Wakefield and Dr. Simon Murch were subsequently brought up on misconduct charges before the GMC in cases 2733564, 1700583, and 2540201. The proceedings resulted in Walker-Smith and Wakefield being found guilty and being “struck off” the medical register, while Dr. Murch retained his status as a physician. Wakefield was then vilified by corporate media and by bloggers eager to repeat scandal and engage in industry protectionism, rather than investigate the complicated facts of the story.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/press-releases/article/Dr-Andrew-Wakefield-s-Co-Author-on-3389547.php

Just wanted to clear up Mike's post previously by using his own link / evidence...

"FOR THE RECORD: A previous version of this online article stated that Dr. Andrew Wakefield practices in Austin, Texas; he does not practice medicine in the United States but conducts research here.

It also stated that Wakefield said he couldn't recommend that parents have their children vaccinated; he instead advised that children receive the vaccinations against measles, mumps and rubella separately.

The article and one of its headlines also stated that his paper said the vaccine causes autism. His paper suggested a possible link; it did not establish a cause."

What I was particularly impressed by was that once the LA Times had been made aware of the errors it had made as a newspaper publisher with a clearly defined code of conduct / ethics it did so without remonstrating against those who informed it.

Here's a snippet from the introduction on the standards they are trying to attain ... of course compare and contrast against the recent BMJ articles....and that's an organisation not only defined as 'media' but also defined in law as a 'charity".

latimes.image2.trb.com/lanews/media/acrobat/2005.../18479691.pdf

The goal of the Los Angeles Times is to publish a newspaper of the highest quality.

This requires The Times to be, above all else, a principled newspaper. Making it so is the responsibility of every staff member. In deed and in appearance, journalists at The Times must keep themselves – and the
newspaper – above reproach. The ways a newspaper can discredit itself are beyond calculation; these guidelines do not purport to cover them all. It is up to staff members to master these general principles
and, beyond that, to listen carefully to their individual sense of right and wrong. If you know of anything that might cast a shadow on the paper’s reputation, you are expected to inform a supervising editor.

This can be an uncomfortable duty; under some circumstances, it can do harm to one’s
relationships with others in the newsroom. It is a duty nevertheless. Credibility, a newspaper’s most precious asset, is arduously acquired and easily squandered. It can be maintained only if each of us accepts responsibility for it.

The standards outlined here apply to all editorial employees and to all work they produce for The Times, whether it appears in print, on television or on the Web.

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Fiona Godlee as editor of the BMJ can be contacted here if you'd like to address any issues that may be relevant.

Fiona Godlee
[email protected]
T: +44 (0)20 7383 6102

This still doesn't change the fact that the original paper reporting the link between Autism and MMR has been revoked, that most of the co-authors have removed their names from it, and that the journal Lancet has admitted that the data was fabricated.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/02/science/la-sci-wakefield3-2010feb03

Thank you Jenny for the TRUTH! I pray that the Geiers and Andy Wakefield will be next. These are heroes for children with neurodevelopmental disorders and they need to be lauded, not persecuted!

More information via FOIA is forthcoming on the junk science that the CDC uses to indemnify thimerosal. Stay tuned!

Anne wrote: "The AAP/CDC and mainstream medicine are running out out options."

That is why we see them retreating into the only option they have left, revoking vaccine mandate exemptions. All the vilification and scare mongering is falling on deaf ears as parents educate themselves and exemptions increase. Now we are seeing their true colors; arguing that parents are too stupid to make health decisions for their children and someone who sees their child fifteen minutes a year knows better. It reveals the true fig leaf of exemption law, the medical health community was fine with exemptions as long as no one used them. Now that people are exercising their legal rights, the law must be changed to remove those rights.

In the meantime they continue to blame this on a "fraudulent doctor" and an "irresponsible celebrity". They pretend that thousands of parents who watched their children regress after vaccination don't exist. Unfortunately for them, those parents told their relatives, friends, and co-workers about their suspicions and people listened. This would have happened even if Andy Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy never existed. The very fact that exemptions continue to increase after the Wakefield crucifixion shows the ineffectiveness of their scapegoating.

They are out of options. The only option remaining is to make parents that don't follow the schedule into criminals.

Kim,

It will make a difference, but of course it is still uphill.

It's nice to see Jenny writing about Dr. Wakefield. Members of the media love to "blame" the vaccine-autism controversy on AN ACTRESS--Jenny McCarthy, and A DOCTOR WHO WAS FOUND TO BE A FRAUD--Andrew Wakefield. Now that the actions of the GMC have been found to be a gross example of malfeasance and corruption, the medical/pharmaceutical establishment will have to come up with something new to explain why confidence in the vaccine schedule is rapidly eroding. We're sick to death of the latest official phony, pharma-funded population study showing "no link." Millionaire vaccine developer Paul Offit's rants against non-vaccinating parents and his promotion of vaccines evoke outrage from parents.

The AAP/CDC and mainstream medicine are running out out options. We've heard it all before. It's incredibly clear that the epidemic of sick and disabled children is real. The medical establishment's war on children--the damage and the denial--can no longer be covered up.

Having no other choice, I can see them all running for cover. In the end, the years of corruption, collusion, and cover-up will make this the biggest medical scandal in history. Let's hope it all comes to light soon--for the sake of the children.

Anne Dachel, Media

Its great we have opened reflective conversations about the health and well being of children on the planet. This ruling by no means ends the work parent advocates need to continue in the face of what has felt like no resullts. A breather for sure, and justice, but a new road ahead that marches towards getting to what is so. Once we have these honest discussions in place there is no doubt in my mind that we can find answers, cures, treatments and a world that gets it all handled.

Isn't it strange that Judge Mitting's "quashing" of the GMC's unjust prosecution of pediatric gastroenterologist Prof. John Walker-Smith hasn't generated anywhere near the media frenzy in the United States that would have occurred
had Judge Mitting ruled in favor of the GMC?

At least we can be thankful this decision will prevent Brian Deer from being fawned over .. once again .. by major US media personalities (Anderson Cooper and Matt Lauer come to mind) as would have likely occurred had Judge Mitting ruled otherwise.

For that alone .. parents in the US should be eternally grateful to Judge Mitting.