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[Bedford Roughyed]

http://www.telegraph...l-has-said.html

The British Medical Journal has reviewed the six million word transcript of the General Medical Council hearings, comparing them with the findings of investigative journalist Brian Deer and the research paper in the Lancet.

Huge discrepancies have been found between what was in the children's medical notes and what was published about them in the Lancet.

As a result, Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor of the BMJ, has accused Dr Wakefield of deliberate fraud and said the scare was a hoax on the scale of the Pildown man, which was for 40 years believed to have been the missing evolutionary link between ape and man.

[Bob8]

Yet people who consider themselves sceptical and wise sucked up every word he says.

It is a scandal that he walks free. It is a scandal that journos were happy to publicise this considering the deaths of children worth the story.

[Steve May]

Yet people who consider themselves sceptical and wise sucked up every word he says.

It is a scandal that he walks free. It is a scandal that journos were happy to publicise this considering the deaths of children worth the story.

I consider myself sceptical and I'd like to think of myself as wise and I thought he was a charlatan from the start.

Our little one gets the MMR in a few weeks time. Hooray for medical science.

[Bob8]

I consider myself sceptical and I'd like to think of myself as wise and I thought he was a charlatan from the start.

Our little one gets the MMR in a few weeks time. Hooray for medical science.

Indeed, my point was the painfil naivity of those who accepted a bloke who held a patant on individual vaccines was completely impartial.

[Tiny Tim]

Indeed, my point was the painfil naivity of those who accepted a bloke who held a patant on individual vaccines was completely impartial.

Sadly there is the assumption that pharma companies and health authorities have no interest in the well-being of patients and are simply money driven fraudsters.

[Bob8]

Sadly there is the assumption that pharma companies and health authorities have no interest in the well-being of patients and are simply money driven fraudsters.

And, for all many deny it, a huge trust in the integrity of journalists.

[JohnM]

all compound by the illogical, ignorant and stupid who seem to populate the media and mumsnet.

Flu epidemic anyone?

[Millman]

Hooray for medical science.

Medical science? I read as recently as yesterday that antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs should be banned as they are which are all no better than placebos.

Bloody science.

[Tiny Tim]

Medical science? I read as recently as yesterday that antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs should be banned as they are which are all no better than placebos.

Bloody science.

Do you have a link to this claim?

[Millman]

Do you have a link to this claim?

As it happens I do.

[Bob8]

He is not entirely speaking out of his bum hole, in that anti-depressents are sometimes used as placebos or to get rid of that patient in the same way that anti-biotics are used for viruses. However, they are clearly not ineffective when used correctly. They can be ineffective, but are cheaper than therapy.