Instead of victimising Wakefield (who actually was not the first to raise concerns about the MMR which was controversial long before his study) I would prefer to see the doctors and lawyers struck off who have conspired to make the family court system secretive and inaccurate as was mentioned in the Times this week. Parents lose their children on the flimsiest of evidence and if they are later vindicated do not get their children back. Sally Clark was lucky in one respect - as her husband was able to keep their surviving son so when she came out of jail she at least had one son left and the crminal courts are not closed. Many parents are not so lucky.
If you want to campaign against someone, forget Wakefield - he may have helped to contribute towards the angst that parents go through when considering vaccination but in my eyes he is a lot better than Roy Meadows, who was reinstated by a court after being struck off but if Wakefield were struck off you could be sure that any judge sitting in a judicial review would be leaned on very heavily to make sure the decision stuck.
And I still don't understand why so many parents who agree with the MMR have a problem with those who do not - if your child has had the MMR jab why are you concerned? Or are you not so convinced about the efficacy of the MMR immunisation - ie you are worried that it might not work - and if that is the case, why bother having it when there are risks associated with it (if there were not, there would not be a Vaccine Damage Act).
Anyway I am not a pro or anti MMR campaigner - as I said above I am far more concerned about the family courts and the fact that innocent people are losing their children. My son got a straw stuck up his nose yesterday at his nursery and I took him to casualty to get it taken out. I made very sure that the nursery documented that it happened there and not while he was with me. Should we be living in that sort of fear?
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Forget the MMR debate - there are more important things to worry about
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hellywobs · 23/06/2006 08:47
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