velvetpage: (outraged)
velvetpage ([personal profile] velvetpage) wrote2007-01-02 11:55 am
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The doctor who "proved" a link between MMR vaccine and autism . . .

. . . received about a million dollars from lawyers who were, of course, trying to prove the MMR vaccine was unsafe.

All together now, boys and girls: THAT'S A BIG CONFLICT OF INTEREST.

Conflict of interest

Thanks [livejournal.com profile] thebitterguy for the link.

[identity profile] girlydoll.livejournal.com 2007-01-02 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
This suggestion, followed by a campaign led by Wakefield, caused immunisation rates to slump from 92% to 78.9%, although they have since partly recovered. In March this year the first British child in 14 years died from measles.



Yea, that just says it all does it not?