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Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy Hardcover – May 24, 2010

by Andrew J. Wakefield (Author), Jenny McCarthy (Foreword)

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As Andrew Wakefield states in his prologue, “If autism does not affect your family now, it will. If something does not change—and change soon—this is almost a mathematical certainty. This book affects you also. It is not a parochial look at a trivial medical spat in the United Kingdom, but dispatches from the battlefront in a major confrontation—a struggle against compromise in medicine, corruption of science, and a real and present threat to children in the interests of policy and profit. It is a story of how ‘the system’ deals with dissent among its doctors and scientists.”

In the pursuit of possible links between childhood vaccines, intestinal inflammation, and neurologic injury in children, Wakefield lost his job in London’s Royal Free Hospital, his country of birth, his career, and his medical license. A recent General Medical Council ruling stated that he was “dishonest, irresponsible and showed callous disregard for the distress and pain of children.” Maligned by the medical establishment and mainstream media, Wakefield endeavors to set the record straight in Callous Disregard. While explaining what really happened, he calls out the organizations and individuals that are acting not for the sake of children affected by autism, but in their own self-interests.

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“I'm so glad Andy Wakefield finally has the chance to tell his story. . . . For hundreds of thousands of parents around the world, myself included, Andy Wakefield is a symbol of strength and conviction that all parents of children with autism can use to fight for truth and the best lives possible for their kids.” (Jenny McCarthy, from her foreword)

“As a mother of a boy who regressed into autism immediately following his MMR vaccination, I welcome this book unreservedly . . . Whatever your thoughts on the issue, if you read nothing else at all on the vaccine-autism debate, this has to be the most crucial book you read.” (Polly Tommey, editor of The Autism File)

“Andrew Wakefield has been subjected to extraordinary criticism and condemnation from professional colleagues and the wider community since he first questioned the safety of the MMR vaccine. In this book he answers his critics—powerfully and comprehensively—and sets the record straight. It is essential reading for anyone wanting to know the truth behind the MMR debate and the politics of vaccination policy.” (Dr. Richard Halvorsen, author of The Truth about Vaccines)

“Meeting Dr. Andy Wakefield changed our lives and . . . we are forever grateful. His wise and measured advice about vaccinations helped us dodge a bullet . . . Our fourth son [had] multiple allergies and repeated infections . . . We now fully realize [he] would have been a victim of immune overload had we followed the regular vaccine schedule. . . . [He] is [now] bright and healthy . . . This book provides a terrifying insight into what has been happening behind the scenes as efforts redouble to silence Dr. Wakefield . . . It is a wake-up call to those who think [he] is anything other than a modern day hero fighting for all of our children.” (Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan, Troublemaker Studios, Austin, Texas)

“Dr. Wakefield sets the record straight. It was not he who showed callous disregard towards vulnerable, sick children with autism. It was the British medical establishment, the General Medical Council, the media and the pharmaceutical industry that threw the children under the bus to protect the vaccine program. This is a book for everyone who cares about our future.” (Mary Holland, Esq., co-founder, Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy)

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Andrew J. Wakefield, MB, BS, FRCS, is an academic gastroenterologist. He received his medical degree from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School (part of the University of London) in 1981, and pursued a career in gastrointestinal surgery with a particular interest in inflammatory bowel disease. He has published over 130 original scientific articles, book chapters, and invited scientific commentaries. He and his wife, Carmel, live in Austin, Texas.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skyhorse (May 24, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1616081694
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616081690
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 6.3 x 9 inches

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Dr Andrew Wakefield, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCPath, is an academic gastroenterologist. He received his medical degree from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School (part of the University of London) in 1981, one of the third generation of his family to have studied medicine at that teaching hospital.

He pursued a career in gastrointestinal surgery with a particular interest in inflammatory bowel disease. He qualified as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985 and in 1996 was awarded a Wellcome Trust Traveling Fellowship to study small-intestinal transplantation in Toronto, Canada. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2001. He has published over 130 original scientific articles, book chapters, and invited scientific commentaries.

In the pursuit of possible links between childhood vaccines, intestinal inflammation, and neurologic injury in children, Dr. Wakefield lost his job in the Department of Medicine at London’s Royal Free Hospital, his country, his career, and his medical license.

He is married to Carmel, a physician and a classical radio presenter. They have four children, James, Sam, Imogen, and Corin, and a black mongrel called Bella.

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Customers find the book an engaging read that provides a balanced perspective on various issues. They praise its objective writing style and mention it's a must-read for parents. The writing style is described as fun with occasional British humor. Overall, readers describe the book as comprehensive, objective, and clear.

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Customers find the book informative and well-documented. They say it explores issues in a rational, critical, and clear manner. The book is thorough and provides a good exposure to the truth about the MMR and its history. It addresses many falsehoods, misunderstandings, and outright mistreatment of a doctor.

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I just finished reading this book and am impressed by the methodical, detailed way the author reconstructs the data with the corresponding events, dismantling charges and accusations made against him with verifiable facts that leave no question of validity.

The intensity of personal attacks prompting and following the writing of this book makes it clear Dr. Wakefield hit a nerve, awakening a sleeping giant more concerned with politics/power and money than the well-being of even one of the Lancet 12, never mind the rest of us.

I read all the reviews beforehand and after reading the book I was unable to understand how critics could come to any conclusions other than those of the author, dismissing the detailed data/histories and tortuous, heartbreaking experiences of the vaccine injured who they forget are the real story here.

You don't need to be a medical professional to connect the dots with your own child or loved one, to know they were normal before vaccination and to watch them become extremely ill and/or spiral downward soon after, my precious grandchild was very fortunate to recover.

I challenge any critic to withhold opinions until someone dearly loved and close to them becomes one of the unfortunate few. It's an insult to the countless vaccine injured to make armchair assumptions and judgments unless you've experienced it, there are many medical professionals who agree and do not vaccinate their own children.

I found Dr. Wakefield's writing sincere, honest, thorough and well referenced. I appreciated the table based time line at the end that chronicled important facts in an easy to read manner.

I was deeply troubled to read the following in the book:

"SmithKline French-Beecham (SKFB), as the British company was apparently then called, did not have a licensed product in the UK. In fact, their own Urabe-containing MMR vaccine, sold under the name of Trivirix, was withdrawn in Canada for safety reasons in July 1998, in the same month that the same vaccine under a different name (Pluserix) was granted a license in the UK."

By fast tracking this vaccine and simultaneously denying market approval for the single disease vaccines that Dr. Wakefield still endorsed authorities and manufacturers willfully denied parents the right to choose and should be held personally accountable for all damages.

These facts speak volumes about the integrity/moral compass of UK health officials and their dysfunctional, unhealthy relationship with industry, which sadly is even worse here in the U.S.

I'm saddened by the personal and professional price Dr. Wakefield has paid for sharing these findings but also incredibly grateful for his willingness to do so, I highly recommend this book.

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Katie Wright
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This book gives an incredibly well resourced and detailed account of the history Dr. Wakefield's findings that many autistic children were regressive and developed severe GI disease. As far as I am aware Wakefield was the first GI to take the concerns of these parents seriously and approach treating this children for the terribly disabling medical disease they have, rather than the psychiatric disorder they do not have. The medical community's resistance to such a frightening paradigm shift, "what is suddenly triggering all these children to ASD and causing sudden onset severe GI disease" has been intense, well sustained and is funded w/ almost unlimited resources. All Dr. Wakefield has on his side are scientific findings, lab reports and the truth of all the children whose parents' sought his help.

Thankfully it is unlikely that such scientific censorship could happen here. In the UK, the medical authorities and the govt. are truly one entity. I fail to understand how one brings a malpractice suit against a doctor without any complainants? It is beyond ridiculous. Doctors who accidentally remove the wrong limbs of patients do not get this kind of treatment in the UK- malpractice has to reach a far higher standard for prosecution there. So the inanity of prosecuting a doctor for helping children, against whom not one complaint was made speaks for itself. Wakefield and his co-authors were prosecuted for their words, not their deeds. The fact that they questioned the timing and the possible triggers of this GI disease was "illegal." Ritual female circumscion by British doctors on English children has never created half the concern displayed by the GMC regarding pinpricks sustained by 5 pre-teens.

Anyone who lives w/ an autistic child or a typical child knows how ridiculous it is to label the willing taking of a blood sample as the most torturous, calamitous event in a child's life- therefore deserving of criminal prosecution. Where is similar concern for teenage pregnancies, child prostitutes, child victims of physical and sexual abuse, drug abuse? From what I understand these children are truly in need of governmental protection and medical assistance, but rarely receive it. I wonder the GMC doesn't focus on these children rather than a group of autistic kids with gut disease? Other than prosecuting the doctor who treated these children the GMC has not demonstrated any interest in actually helping autistic children or investigating parental concerns.

It isn't surprising that massive conflicts of interest permeate the medical community- its only sad. There is no better example of the consequences of COI than the vociferous protection of the vaccine industry above all else by those who should be representing children's interests. Everyone loses, whether they know it or not. I am so sorry that Dr. Wakefield's family had to live this horrible story.

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Helen MacAllister
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 17, 2017
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This was a really excellent summary of the "Wakefield debacle" over MMR vaccination and the potential connection with autism. It does highlight - very well - the potential for conflicts of interest when pharmaceutical companies fund research and support academics in their work, including authorship of clnical medical papers as well as the scope for journalism reporting out of context facts which can significantly sway opinion when the full story is not reported alongside. Dr Wakefield is not anti -vaccination but sets out a reasonable hypothesis for further research into side effects as well as further research into the effects of the additional (allegedly toxic) ingredients in vaccine doses such as mercury and aluminium. My personal view ( as a retired nurse) is that health spending would be better directed to improving living standards globally (including, emphatically, availability of contraception as a first step towards reducing overcrowding and the continuous struggle for accessing finite resources including clean water) rather than dosing humans (particularly tiny babies) with chemicals and bugs when it has been widely demonstrated that clean water, good quality housing, efficient sanitation etc has a positive impact on health outcomes. The reality is that such activity does not make money! It is not profitable! It is understood - and documented - that many infectious diseases such as measles, chickenpox, TB and many others were in decline as living conditions improved post WW2 and before vaccines were widely available. There is for instance, very little scarlet fever around nowadays but it used to be a killer. There has never, so far as I know, been a vaccine for scarlet fever but decent sanitation and improved housing have been a feature of post war Britain. Vaccines may contain animal-derived ingredients (some vaccines, I understand are grown in chicken eggs) and increasing attention is being paid nowadays to the comparative health effects of plant based diets versus those who consume meat, eggs and dairy produce. Just an interesting, although connected, side issue but then one comes up against other vested interests in the food industry. All in all, although not the easiest reading style (it's quite a learned academic / legally orientated text) this book is clearly well researched and provides thought provoking arguments for those interested in why autism numbers seem to be much on the increase in this day and age. Worth reading.

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Fantastic book written by Andy Wakefield. The documentary evidence of the children, events leading up to, during and after the GMC, are all there for the reader to digest. Any questions you may of had, are all backed up complete with citations for the reader to further investigate. This is one book you should have on your bookshelf, regardless of which side of the vaccination debate you are on.

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after seeing that " The Nature of Things " would be doing an episode on "Autism the Enigma " , I was very interested in watching , but I would be working the night it was to air , I don't watch much t.v. , but this was something that I was very interested in watching , I had asked several people to record it for me ( just in case ) , and , though they all tried , the night it aired , it was wiped out , completely , across Canada , I searched for it on the internet , and managed to get a written breakdown of what the episode was to expose , but the makers of the program were saying that they didn't know what actually happened , and that it had been wiped off of the hard drive , so for days I tried to find a link or something regarding the program , however , a couple weeks later , I finally found it , but it had nothing to do with the original written breakdown I had seen ,which suggested that gut flora , especially effected after the MMR vaccine , had been proven to be linked with autism , this only fueled my desire to know what was being purposely hidden from the public , which led me to purchase this very insightful book by Dr. Andrew Wakefield .
He put his career in jeopardy to reveal his findings , and although , I'm sure , many times over , he must have believed himself beaten by the financial "powers that be" ,he held true , forfeiting his career and home for something he believed to be right , not something that many would have the stamina to do.
What makes his whole belief ring true for me , is the fact that he did indeed vaccinate his first two children , when he had no reason to doubt that good intentions were the sole purpose of vaccination , but did not vaccinate his last two children , this act alone speaks volumes to me .
If you have doubts regarding vaccination , read this book , I'm sure that originally vaccines were created to do good for the populace , but they are now just done for financial gain , with little interest in damaged incurred from their implementation.

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Jennifer Craig
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I have followed the scapegoating of Andrew Wakefield for months and I have been ashamed of the General Medical Council in UK. The antics of Brian Deer are beyond belief and I wonder who has been paying him. Lost in all the fracas is the tragedy of our children. This account by an honorable physician puts the whole sorry story in perspective. Wakefield compares the recalls by Toyota of faults in their product with the lack of recall of dangerous vaccines; indeed governments go to great lengths to deny responsibility for the destruction of children's health by vaccines. Wakefield describes his "trial" by the GMC. The main point I gleaned was that he conducted a case series, not to be confused with experiments, and yet he is accused of experimenting on children without ethical approval, which he had anyway. He was really put on trial because he had the temerity to challenge the safety of a vaccine.
Mercifully for us all he is fighting back. Way to go, Andrew, may a fair wind be at your back.
Jennifer Craig, author of Jabs, Jenner and Juggernauts: a Look at Vaccination

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Reading this book was not easy for me as it made me extremely angry. I am a parent of an autistic boy and our experience matches many of the examples and cases outlined within the book. Firstly I must make it clear we have never sought to attribute blame for our son's autism or have taken any legal action regarding the MMR debate. What we have done as parents is concentrate all our efforts on strategies that work in helping our son develop hopefully into what one day will be some form of independence.

Our Son developed perfectly for the first 18 months of his life meeting all the milestones you would expect. He started talking early and was an absolute joy to be around. Always laughing and very rarely upset. However 2 days after the MMR injection after being unwell and having a high temperature he had a seizure at home. At one point his eyes rolled up into his head. At this point we immediately took him to see an emergency doctor. While in the waiting room he regained conciousness and seemed OK again and the doctor showed little concern at what we had experienced.

Over the subsequent weeks our son withdrew into himself. All speech and eye contact stopped and he would spend several hours a day just screaming uncontrolably. He also went from a normal sleep pattern to just a couple hours a night. The net effect on him and the family was terrible. This went on for a few years and the medical professionals could not offer any real help. Then my wife found out how bowel conditions can potentially lead to severe autistic problems and with the help of a number of parents, the net and certain experts in this area we were able to develop a regime that helped our son.

Today he is still autistic we have not found any miracle cure. But he has good eye contact, is very loving, sleeps well (up to 10 hours per night) and can talk and his language ability is still improving. There is now hope for him but we still have a long way to go.

The reason I am sharing this information with you all in a book review is the research that Andrew Wakefield conducted with a number of other professionals is vital to fully investigate and understand the link between the bowel and the autistic brain irrespective if the MMR is the cause of the problem. There are 100's if not 1000's of parents of autistic children out there who have seen first hand and recognise the benefits in overcoming the bowel problems our children face and the resulting lessening of many of the most severe autistic behaviours. The BMA and all the relevent authorities by taking the actions they did against Wakefield have basically stopped all meaningful research into this area. No medical professional out there would now touch this subject with a bargepole in fear of losing their medical license and career. What were the authorities so frightened of? Wakefield in his paper for the Lancet stated that there to-date was no medical evidence to show a link between MMR and this bowel condition.

I feel that money and politics have taken over the debate rather than finding the answers we all need as parents as to why perfect children regressed so dramatically at the age of 18 months to 2 years. If not due to the MMR, serious research is needed to understand what was the cause and what strategies can be used for treatment. All that is left now is parents grouping together and using information of people like Andrew Wakefield to follow strategies independently without any help from the medical establishment. Surely this is morally wrong in every way.

Finally I must add to set a National Newspaper reporter on Andrew Wakefield and to use him to draw up the evidence used at the BMA hearing is unbelieveable. The reporter in question I believe has no medical training and his reports were inaccurate at every level. The facts were wrong and distorted in a terrible way. In my opinion such behaviour where childrens health is at risk is far more serious than the recent Newspaper phone hacking scandal. It is also interesting to note that the reporter in question works for News International the owner of the Sunday Times. I have also read somewhere that the head James Murdock of News International is a non executive director of Glaxo Smith Kliene one of the manufacturers of the MMR. If true this really is alarming.

Andrew Wakefield states in his book that although his work and this vital research has been stopped there will be no hiding from this problem as Nature cannot be fooled and will always present itself. I sincerely hopes this is the case and this man who has now lost everything for standing up for something he thought was right is finally vindicated and allowed to continue with his medical career.

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