Science is the New Politics
SCIENCE IS THE NEW POLITICS

Martin J Walker

PART ONE: THE NEAR PAST


On May 24th 2010, Dr Andrew Wakefield, together with co-defendant Professor John
Walker-Smith, was struck off the British Medical Register. The decision came at the
end of a three-year GMC 'trial' that cost British doctors in excess of £6M. The
campaign to character assassinate Dr Wakefield began soon after he first wrote to Dr
David Salisbury of the NHS in 1996 warning of a public health crisis which might be
caused by the MMR vaccination. The campaign has continued for a decade and a half
and at its height has 'disappeared' at least 1,500 vaccine damaged children. The
making invisible of the reality of vaccine damaged children and the casting into the
mist of their parents tragedy, heralds the zenith of a propaganda campaign that the
pharmaceutical companies have been working on for the last 50 years. The endgame
is the absolute denial of responsibility for any kind of iatrogenic damage in
contemporary society.

This essay has three themes. First, to explain the larger, extensive network of
the science lobby that has supported the vaccine manufacturers in their anonymous
campaign to deny any form of adverse reaction caused first by Urabe mumps strain
MMR and then by those strains of MMR and MR that caused Inflammatory Bowel
Disease and regressive autism in some children. The second theme is to explain the
link between the first 'quackbusting' campaigns, in Britain and the US and the
extensive contemporary pro corporate science lobby. Thirdly, the essay uses Evan
Harris's political activities and elements of his father's career as a vehicle to explain
the nature of conflicting and vested interests which should have been declared when
Evan Harris began his involvement in the ambush of Dr Wakefield.............

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