Deer on Wakefield
Jan. 7th, 2011 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenBrian Deer's BMJ article on Wakefield's anti-MMR work is available here. It's interesting reading; Deer reports that none of the twelve cases in Wakefield's paper were accurately described. In particular, he reports that timelines were altered; kids who showed initial symptoms of autism six months after MMR vaccination, or a week before, were all represented as showing their first symptoms shortly after the vaccination.
Out of curiosity, does anybody have a feel for how much profit Big Pharma makes out of providing childhood inoculations... as opposed to the profits they would make providing lifetime care to kids suffering permanent after-effects from mumps/measles/rubella complications? I suspect the latter is substantially greater than the former but that's just my guess.
Out of curiosity, does anybody have a feel for how much profit Big Pharma makes out of providing childhood inoculations... as opposed to the profits they would make providing lifetime care to kids suffering permanent after-effects from mumps/measles/rubella complications? I suspect the latter is substantially greater than the former but that's just my guess.
