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Skyhorse Publishing
June 2010
On Sale: May 26, 2010
288 pages ISBN: 1616081694 EAN: 9781616081690 Hardcover
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Andrew Wakefield reveals the the inside story of the vaccine-autism connection, and his controversial research. As Andrew Wakefield states in his prologue, βIf autism does not affect your family now, it will. If something does not changeβand change soonβthis 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 confrontationβa 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 βthe systemβ deals with dissent among its doctors and scientists.βnnIn the pursuit of possible links between childhood vaccines, intestinal inflammation, and neurologic injury in children, Wakefield lost his job in Londonβs Royal Free Hospital, his country of birth, his career, and his medical license. A recent General Medical Council ruling stated that he was βdishonest, irresponsible and showed callous disregard for the distress and pain of children.β 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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