A statement from Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey argues that Dr. Andrew Wakefield is currently being discredited to prevent an historic study from being published that for the first time looks at vaccinated versus unvaccinated primates and compares health outcomes -- with potentially devastating consequences for vaccine makers and public health officials.
They state that Dr. Wakefield and parents of children with autism around the world are being subjected to a remarkable media campaign, engineered by vaccine manufacturers, reporting on the retraction of a paper published in The Lancet in 1998 by Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues. The retraction was a response to a ruling from England’s General Medical Council, a kangaroo court where public health officials in the pocket of vaccine makers served as judge and jury.
Dr. Wakefield is the co-author, along with eight other distinguished scientists, of a new set of studies that explore the topic of vaccinated versus unvaccinated neurological outcomes using monkeys. The results were disturbing -- vaccinated monkeys, unlike their unvaccinated peers, suffered the loss of many reflexes that are critical for survival.
Behind the scenes, the pressure to keep the work of Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues from being published is immense, and growing every day. Dr. Wakefield is being vilified through a well-orchestrated smear campaign designed to prevent this important new work from seeing the light of day.
The U.S. vaccine schedule has grown from 10 vaccines given to children in the 1980s to 36 today, perfectly matching the dramatic rise in autism. The work of Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues deserves to be shared with the world to further, rather than censor, scientific progress.