Video Information
Interview with Dr Andrew Wakefield about the British Medical Journal,
science and vaccines. In this video interview, Dr Wakefield says that
BMJ is factually incorrect in accusing Wakefield of falsifying the study
data in his 1998 paper published in The Lancet.
"[The data] were
faithfully reproduced in the Lancet paper, and they were made in the
most scrupulous, meticulous way. Those are the facts. Brian Deer knew
those facts. When he made his allegations to the BMJ, he knew those
facts. Did he disclose them to the BMJ? More importantly, did the BMJ,
as a peer reviewed scientific journal, did they check the facts? Because
the facts were fully available to them in the book Callous Disregard."
Dr
Wakefield also explains how this desperate move by the BMJ to attack Dr
Wakefield has eroded the credibility of the publication:
"They
have been hijacked by a freelance journalist who is not expert in any of
these fields. They have handed over their journal to this man and
allowed him to publish knowingly false allegations, and they have gone
along with it. In my opinion, they [the BMJ] have blown their scientific
credibility. In their desperation... their fundamental belief that
vaccines must be safe, [they say] please don't tell me this terrible
disease has been caused by the physician, don't tell me that. Tell me
anything but that, and we will take any information, even information
from Brian Deer, that will convince us it's safe, and we will publish
that, because that conforms with our belief system. That makes us feel
more comfortable. That makes us feel that we, as a profession, are not
culpable in this extraordinary disorder."
In this interview, Dr
Wakefield also discusses the motivation for the BMJ to grasp at any
effort to discredit those who question the safety of vaccines:
"They
are so keen to prove me wrong, to prove the parents wrong, and to
exonerate the medical profession, their political friends, their
pharmaceutical friends, whoever it is, that they have gone ahead in this
reckless way and done this. And now, based upon the clear, unambiguous,
historical factual records, then I can come out and talk to you like
this and say this without any fear of retribution from the BMJ because
they've got themselves into this mess. The facts are the facts."
He goes on to say about the BMJ, "An investigation will be forced upon them."
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