Oh for F**ks Sake

Look, for fucks sake. The MMR thing is one of the biggest media hoaxes out there. The research by Wakefield was seriously flawed in the first place and leapt upon by a horde of journalists and celebrity columnists without a science qualification between them. No actual studies have been published that show a link between MMR and Autism, and the evidence against a link is overwhelming. Every media outlet that discusses this always ends up trying to "balance the debate" by allowing anti-vaccine nutjobs to have their say and continue to spread this absolute rubbish.

Of course, now the media point the finger purely at Wakefield, and walk away whistling... claiming it was never anything to do with them guv, oh no honest. And the biggest bastard in all this is the Daily Mail...

So of course, one of the things we really need to do is to get our children to start thinking about how science is manipulated by the media and by parties with a cash investment in peddling alternative therapies etc. It's good common sense to doubt what these shitrags are telling us.

So this story in the Daily Mail yesterday made my blood boil when I read it (which to be honest every story in the Daily Mail does) - for the sheer arrogant cheek of it.

So - to try and show children that the whole MMR thing was complete bollocks and that people like Wakefield and the Daily Mail were bastards of the highest order - is somehow Brainwashing them? Oh for fucks sake.

I'm gobsmacked. Really i am.

To have people from JABS talking about insidious ways of shaping peoples opinions? Words fail me.

And for AQA to now withdraw the past paper because of it. Shameful. Stand up to these bastards. (And I've now seen the paper and it was only for 3 marks anyway!)

I'm hoping Ben at Bad Science will be writing about this soon, keep an eye on his blog.

And the Anti-vaccine movement is moving ahead at a scary rate in the US with that fuckwit Jenny McCarthy being signed up by Oprah. These diseases are going to come back, and people are going to die, and the blame for that falls squarely on these celebrity rent-a-quotes and the arts students that work in the media who don't have a clue about what they are doing.

Bah.....

Want to read more. Try some of these links
Why Does the Vaccine/Autism Controversy Live On?
Oprah drinks the antivax Kool Aid
Why is Oprah Winfrey promoting vaccine skeptic Jenny McCarthy?
Daily Mail Exposes Secret Government Brainwashing Plot!
Mail & MMR: who's doing the brainwashing?

The stupid.. they not only burn, they kill...