Comments on: Chinese Whispers – MMR and the Press http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/07/chinese-whispers-mmr-and-press.html Experiments and Thoughts on Quackery, Health Beliefs and Pseudoscience Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:47:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Sharon http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/07/chinese-whispers-mmr-and-press.html#comment-4995 Sharon Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2007/07/chinese-whispers-mmr-and-the-press.html#comment-4995 Andy is looking oh so dreamy and heroic in that photo.<br/><br/>The quacks are deep into all this bull, and Andy sucks up the adulation. Like he said in the Observer piece;<br/>"'America is like the UK in that many children are affected by autism, but over there there's a powerful drive to get to the truth, an inherent mistrust of the healthcare bureaucracy, and a can-do attitude among intelligent and articulate parents,' says Wakefield. He predicts that 'the truth' about MMR will eventually come from America, not the UK."<br/><br/>That line about 'intelligent and articulate parents' mistrusting the establishment, and ignoring all that pesky science to just know that they mustn't vaccinate their kids, is the kind of thing they love him for. Andy is looking oh so dreamy and heroic in that photo.

The quacks are deep into all this bull, and Andy sucks up the adulation. Like he said in the Observer piece;
“‘America is like the UK in that many children are affected by autism, but over there there’s a powerful drive to get to the truth, an inherent mistrust of the healthcare bureaucracy, and a can-do attitude among intelligent and articulate parents,’ says Wakefield. He predicts that ‘the truth’ about MMR will eventually come from America, not the UK.”

That line about ‘intelligent and articulate parents’ mistrusting the establishment, and ignoring all that pesky science to just know that they mustn’t vaccinate their kids, is the kind of thing they love him for.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/07/chinese-whispers-mmr-and-press.html#comment-4994 Anonymous Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:59:00 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2007/07/chinese-whispers-mmr-and-the-press.html#comment-4994 PR is right. Wakefield uses a PR agent, Abel Hadden, to advise on how to make the most of his falsehoods. There's big money hanging on all this, and Wakefield wants to make sure that as much as possible of it is in his pocket. PR is right. Wakefield uses a PR agent, Abel Hadden, to advise on how to make the most of his falsehoods. There’s big money hanging on all this, and Wakefield wants to make sure that as much as possible of it is in his pocket.

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