Post : You Can Avoid Getting Wakefielded
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Posted : May 27, 2024 at 8:40 pm
Author : Vincent Iannelli, MD
Tags : Andy Wakefield, Bob Sears, David Miller, Jenny McCarthy, John Wilson, Larry King, Oprah, PEACH, Peter Aaby, RFK Jr, Somali measles outbreak, Taylor Winterstein, Wakefield factor, Wakefielded
Categories : Anti-Vaccine Propaganda

When you are famous and get something named after you, it's a good thing. Not so much when you are infamous.

> "After leaving Thoughtful House, Wakefield became president of the nonprofit Strategic Autism Initiative to further autism research. In the first three years, it raised $623,439 and paid Wakefield a salary adding up to $316,667 over that period for working 30 hours a week in 2010 and 2011 and 15 hours in 2012, according to IRS filings."
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> Discredited autism guru Andrew Wakefield takes aim at CDC

What do you think of when you hear the name Andy Wakefield ( [link removed] ) or that someone was "Wakefielded" these days?

Getting Wakefielded

Of course, anti-vax folks hold a different image of Andy Wakefield ( [link removed] ) and a different idea of what it means to be Wakefielded...

[link removed] Remember that it isn't just autism ( [link removed] ) , anti-vaccine influencers ( [link removed] ) have a multitude of different theories ( [link removed] ) to explain how vaccines are to blame for everything ( [link removed] ) .

To them, he isn't a fraud ( [link removed] ) , was proven right, and can do no wrong...

> "To our community, Andrew Wakefield is Nelson Mandela and Jesus Christ rolled up into one."
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> J.B. Handley

What does the rest of the world think?

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In the traditional sense, considering Wakefield's retracted Lancet paper, getting Wakefielded refers to someone falsifying or manipulating research to make it seem like it proves something that it doesn't.

What Getting Wakefielded Really Should Mean

As we are getting to know more about Andy Wakefield ( [link removed] ) 's activities since his paper was retracted and he lost his medical license, and the effects of his fraud, we know what getting Wakefielded really should mean!

> "This is the legacy of the Wakefield scare," said Dr. David Elliman, spokesman for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, referring to a paper published in 1998 by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues that is widely rejected by scientists.
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> Measles uptick in Britain: Blame Andrew Wakefield's autism-vaccine study

When a community is Wakefielded, they are hit with anti-vaccine messaging...

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> The people of Samoa ( [link removed] ) were Wakefielded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr ( [link removed] ) and Taylor Winterstein ( [link removed] ) just before their big outbreak.
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And then, not surprisingly, a big outbreak of a vaccine preventable disease soon seems to follow.

[link removed] Were parents in West Africa Wakefielded by Peter Aaby ( [link removed] ) and his team? Made to think that the DPT vaccine was dangerous and now getting hit with low vaccination rates and deadly diphtheria outbreaks ( [link removed] ) ?

Which other communities might have been Wakefielded?

* in 1974, reduced DPT ( [link removed] ) coverage in the UK after a paper by Dr John Wilson claimed their might be a link between the pertussis vaccine and brain damage led to pertussis epidemics. Wilson's study was found to be seriously flawed, subsequent vaccine lawsuits ( [link removed] ) failed, and folks eventually started to get vaccinated again. The media ( [link removed] ) and Wilson Wakefielded everyone, but no lessons were learned...

* in 1981 David Miller published a flawed study trying to link the DPT vaccine to seizures and neurological problems - finding that no one else was ever able to reproduce, but which led to media attention, including the Vaccine Roulette ( [link removed] ) show.

* the UK ( [link removed] ) , with measles outbreaks ( [link removed] ) every few years since 2002 ( [link removed] ) - were they Wakefielded by Andy Wakefield?

* the Somali American community ( [link removed] ) around Minneapolis ( [link removed] ) , also hit with a measles outbreak ( [link removed] ) following multiple visits by Andy Wakefield ( [link removed] ) . And then, just like the NRA stages a big gun show in an area after a school shooting, Wakefield brought his VAXXED bus ( [link removed] ) to the area while they were still working to contain the outbreak!

* the PEACH project folks ( [link removed] ) and had been distributing their magazines filled with misinformation about vaccines in Orthodox Jewish communities since at least 2014 = Wakefielded, as a 2019 New York measles outbreak ( [link removed] ) eventually became the largest outbreak since the endemic spread of measles had ended

* before the 2019 New York outbreak ended, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr ( [link removed] ) made an appearance

* a 2013 measles outbreak at Eagle Mountain International Church ( [link removed] ) in Texas, a vaccine-skeptical megachurch whose pastor had reservations about vaccines

* a 2010 pertussis epidemic in California ( [link removed] ) in which 10 babies died - the epidemic was tied to an increase in personal belief exemptions and followed the publication of Bob Sears ( [link removed] ) Vaccine Book that pushed an alternative vaccination schedule ( [link removed] ) , Jenny McCarthy ( [link removed] ) appearing on Oprah ( [link removed] ) and Larry King ( [link removed] ) telling parents that vaccines are not safe, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr ( [link removed] ) 's Deadly Immunity article in Rolling Stone.

How many more people have been Wakefielded by today's anti-vaccine influencers ( [link removed] ) ?

You Can Avoid Getting Wakefielded

Fortunately, it is very easy to avoid getting Wakefielded.

[link removed] Is there a connection between Bob Sears ( [link removed] ) and the Disneyland measles outbreak ( [link removed] ) ?

Be a true skeptic ( [link removed] ) and don't listen to folks who try to scare ( [link removed] ) you away from getting vaccinated and protected!

[link removed] Measles rates continued to soar and in 2019, globally, nearly 20 million infants didn't get a million vaccine, leading to soaring deaths ( [link removed] ) .

Vaccines are safe ( [link removed] ) , with few risks ( [link removed] ) , and they are necessary ( [link removed] ) .

More on Andy Wakefield

* Anti-Vaccine Movement Timeline and History ( [link removed] )

* The Moral Responsibility of the Anti-Vaccine Movement ( [link removed] )

* What Are the Greatest Tricks Anti-Vaccine Folks Use to Persuade Parents to Skip Vaccines? ( [link removed] )

* Ask 8 Questions Before You Skip a Vaccine ( [link removed] )

* Are Kids With Religious Exemptions Spreading Disease? ( [link removed] )

* How Misinformed and Irresponsible Parents Led to Outbreaks of Smallpox ( [link removed] )

* Quantifying the effect of Wakefield et al. (1998) on skepticism about MMR vaccine safety in the U.S. ( [link removed] )

* Anti-Vaxxers and Somali Immigrants: Biography of a Measles Outbreak ( [link removed] )

* Quantifying the effect of Wakefield et al. (1998) on skepticism about MMR vaccine safety in the U.S. ( [link removed] )

* Fifteen Years After A Vaccine Scare, A Measles Epidemic ( [link removed] )

* Thanks Andrew Wakefield. Thanks for making measles great again. ( [link removed] )

* 20th anniversary of the Andrew Wakefield vaccine fraud – no celebrations ( [link removed] )

* How we know vaccines don’t cause autism – and why this belief persists ( [link removed] )

* The pertussis vaccine controversy in Great Britain, 1974–1986 ( [link removed] )

* Vaccine Refusals Fueled California's Whooping Cough Epidemic ( [link removed] )

* Measles uptick in Britain: Blame Andrew Wakefield's autism-vaccine study ( [link removed] )

* Measles outbreak in Somali American community follows anti-vaccine talks ( [link removed] )

* Brooklyn measles outbreak of 2013: A case study of the cost of antivaccine pseudoscience ( [link removed] )

* Anonymous anti-vaxxers push propaganda on local Orthodox community ( [link removed] )

* ‘MMR mother’ fabricated injury story ( [link removed] )

* The Doctor Who Fooled the World ( [link removed] )

* The Wakefield factor ( [link removed] )

* Andrew Wakefield is accused of paying children for blood samples ( [link removed] )

* The origins of ‘one of the biggest frauds in the world’ ( [link removed]- )

* A case of junk science, conflict and hype ( [link removed] )

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