BIOM30001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: General Medical Council, Viera Scheibner, Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network
Document Summary
There is no controversy about the effectiveness and safety of vaccination. Some adverse events. e. g. hpv vaccination - 90% are minor (soreness), but sometimes you can get a serious one (fainting) Ileal-lymphoid nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis and pervasive development disorder in children. Andrew wakefield: 1998 case study of 12 children. Paper fully retracted by the lancet in 2010. Was being paid by lawyers looking to sue mmr vaccine manufacturers (conflict of interest) Data was not reproducible (e. g. madsen et al. , nejm, 2002 a study of over 537,000 children) Children"s medical records did not match with what the paper presented. e. g. signs of autism occurred before vaccine. Everyone makes money from their views, selling products/talks etc. Claimed that vaccination is the single biggest cause of sids (sudden infant death syndrome) Studies show that vaccination is not linked to sids. Owns the church of conscious living main creed is anti-vaccination. All these people make money from their anti-vaccine views (sell devices/books/seminars).
