Here is evidence of how the British Journal of Medicine deceived the public. Given the more recent deception about "safe and effective" here in the States, you might want to see this: Euripides has an 19 part series on how the case against Andrew Wakefield was "fixed." https://euripides.substack.com/p/video-d-how-the-fabrication-was-discovered?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Video+01+D+%22How+the+BMJ%27s+Fabrication+Was+Discovered%22+6m+3s+for+%22How+the+case+against+Andrew+Wakefield+was+fixed+-+A+21st+Century+Medical+Controversy%22&sender_ctype=email&sender_campaign=aK225J&sender_customer=mONM68E
LISTENERS SHOWED INTEREST
Last week, you my listeners, showed more than average interest in my re-run having to do with autism, which is of course, a serious learning disability,( even if academics isn't hindered. )Because of that interest, I thought I would post one of my most favorite reruns: the interview with Dr. Andy Wakefield. Back in 2009 he came into the radio station studio to answer questions. He was in the middle of being persecuted at the time. His publications, which were world class were being discredited, and for a time the British did not accept his license. All that since, of course, has been undone. He has been exonerated. But he no longer practices medicine nor holds a university post. The world is poorer for it. But the clinic he founded continues with someone else's name. Notice how calm and rational and even, and measured what he says is -- even though I was more enthusiastic that usual. Telling.

Before we went on air, he confided in me that he really wondered why people would do this to him. I reminded him that the Bible says "WHEN people persecute you for righteousness sake, then rejoice." I imagine that he, being an Episcopalian at the time, like me when I was a Presbyterian, had seldom heard that verse. Today, we might have more fulsome explanations of why many varied powers all together were pushing vaccinations that hurt children, but still, the verses apply. And really, in my mind, only Biblical, even apocalyptic explanations are sufficient.
SOCIAL MEDIA "HIT JOB" DISCUSSION
Shortly after this interview, I saw discussion in social media that was slightly disturbing. On Twitter, it seemed that some  young women were conducting a smear campaign. They were fussing about why a doctor like this would hurt children. Finally, I "spoke" to the ring leader. I asked how she thought a researcher could hurt children. He was researching questions that parents had brought to him. That stopped the whole campaign.

Do you see? There was no logic in the argument (even had she had correct facts). She was promoting the idea that because he cast some doubt on the safety of vaccines, that he was stopping children from being safe, therefore somehow hurting children. Obvious nonsense, especially since he was already established as a world class gastro-enterologist. The autism question came to him because there were nearly always digestion issues around gluten and caseIn, or in other words, methionine re-uptake problem. Further, research doesn't directly or immediately DO anything,  per se. So, it is not like research, even if were bad, immediately could harm some individual not connected.

Further, it was not the research or the researcher that had any pecuniary motive; but the opposition surely did. Perhaps I brought this up as a question.

Today, I wonder if this ring leader was really a concerned mom, or a paid social media hit man. In any case, some simple questions, rather than substantial claims, seemed to work to shut down a vicious conversation. Clearly, it was aimed to maim.
MORE RECENT RELATED CONTROVERSY
So, here is the re-run. Of course, in the light of more recent incidents, it is greater food for thought than it was before. Dr. Wakefield has said some things about current issues, which you will have to search for. I remember him comparing the harm of you know what,