Chief Scientific Officer Says MMR Vaccine Causes Autism
The question of whether or not vaccines cause autism is the root of one of the world’s most contentious arguments. So much so, that governments are passing mandatory vaccination laws and major corporations are forcing film festivals to bury documentaries offering perspective to the concept. There has been Andrew Wakefield and Barbara Loe Fisher, among a many, to declare that vaccines and autism share an intimate relationship. Now meet Dr Peter Fletcher, U.K. Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health.
In the 1970’s, Dr Fletcher served as Chief Scientific Officer at the DoH and Medical Assessor to the Committee on Safety of Medicines and primarily was responsible for deciding if new vaccines were safe for the public. In 2001, Fletcher was noted as expressing a level of concern over the MMR vaccine due to what he termed as “inadequate testing.” Now Fletcher, according to Daily Mail, is linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
He said the rising tide of autism cases and growing scientific understanding of autism-related bowel disease have convinced him the MMR vaccine may be to blame.
“Clinical and scientific data is steadily accumulating that the live measles virus in MMR can cause brain, gut and immune system damage in a subset of vulnerable children,” he said.
“There’s no one conclusive piece of scientific evidence, no ‘smoking gun’, because there very rarely is when adverse drug reactions are first suspected. When vaccine damage in very young children is involved, it is harder to prove the links.
“But it is the steady accumulation of evidence, from a number of respected universities, teaching hospitals and laboratories around the world, that matters here. There’s far too much to ignore. Yet government health authorities are, it seems, more than happy to do so.”
Dr. Fletcher said “this official complacency utterly inexplicable” when discussing why the government isn’t taking autism and bowel disease in children in serious because he says it has long been linked to the MMR vaccine.
“When scientists first raised fears of a possible link between mad cow disease and an apparently new, variant form of CJD they had detected in just 20 or 30 patients, everybody panicked and millions of cows were slaughtered,” said Dr Fletcher.
“Yet there has been a tenfold increase in autism and related forms of brain damage over the past 15 years, roughly coinciding with MMR’s introduction, and an extremely worrying increase in childhood inflammatory bowel diseases and immune disorders such as diabetes, and no one in authority will even admit it’s happening, let alone try to investigate the causes.”
Dr. Fletcher dismisses the idea that the rise in autism is linked to spectrum categorical changes. He also believes that risk of brain and gut damage from an MMR vaccine is much increased for children who have a sibling with diabetes. He’s astounded that the government refuses to take any of this seriously.
Dr. Fletcher’s announcement comes on the heels of health officials battling another uprising by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who’s recent MMR vaccination documentary brought the issue of autism and the MMR vaccine back into the public’s attention. The idea that the MMR vaccine simply isn’t safe is beginning to resurface to the public in a large capacity. I would expect health officials around the world to launch more campaigns against anti-vaccination networks, as well as push for stronger legislations and rip parental rights from our entitled liberties.
Things just aren’t good out there right now.
The question of whether or not vaccines cause autism is the root of one of the world’s most contentious arguments. So much so, that governments are passing mandatory vaccination laws and major corporations are forcing film festivals to bury documentaries offering perspective to the concept. There has been Andrew Wakefield and Barbara Loe Fisher, among a many, to declare that vaccines and autism share an intimate relationship. Now meet Dr Peter Fletcher, U.K. Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health.
In the 1970’s, Dr Fletcher served as Chief Scientific Officer at the DoH and Medical Assessor to the Committee on Safety of Medicines and primarily was responsible for deciding if new vaccines were safe for the public. In 2001, Fletcher was noted as expressing a level of concern over the MMR vaccine due to what he termed as “inadequate testing.” Now Fletcher, according to Daily Mail, is linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
He said the rising tide of autism cases and growing scientific understanding of autism-related bowel disease have convinced him the MMR vaccine may be to blame.
“Clinical and scientific data is steadily accumulating that the live measles virus in MMR can cause brain, gut and immune system damage in a subset of vulnerable children,” he said.
“There’s no one conclusive piece of scientific evidence, no ‘smoking gun’, because there very rarely is when adverse drug reactions are first suspected. When vaccine damage in very young children is involved, it is harder to prove the links.
“But it is the steady accumulation of evidence, from a number of respected universities, teaching hospitals and laboratories around the world, that matters here. There’s far too much to ignore. Yet government health authorities are, it seems, more than happy to do so.”
Dr. Fletcher said “this official complacency utterly inexplicable” when discussing why the government isn’t taking autism and bowel disease in children in serious because he says it has long been linked to the MMR vaccine.
“When scientists first raised fears of a possible link between mad cow disease and an apparently new, variant form of CJD they had detected in just 20 or 30 patients, everybody panicked and millions of cows were slaughtered,” said Dr Fletcher.
“Yet there has been a tenfold increase in autism and related forms of brain damage over the past 15 years, roughly coinciding with MMR’s introduction, and an extremely worrying increase in childhood inflammatory bowel diseases and immune disorders such as diabetes, and no one in authority will even admit it’s happening, let alone try to investigate the causes.”
Dr. Fletcher dismisses the idea that the rise in autism is linked to spectrum categorical changes. He also believes that risk of brain and gut damage from an MMR vaccine is much increased for children who have a sibling with diabetes. He’s astounded that the government refuses to take any of this seriously.
Dr. Fletcher’s announcement comes on the heels of health officials battling another uprising by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who’s recent MMR vaccination documentary brought the issue of autism and the MMR vaccine back into the public’s attention. The idea that the MMR vaccine simply isn’t safe is beginning to resurface to the public in a large capacity. I would expect health officials around the world to launch more campaigns against anti-vaccination networks, as well as push for stronger legislations and rip parental rights from our entitled liberties.
Things just aren’t good out there right now.