This quack is the head of an institute?: Cleveland Clinic docs anti-vaxxer rant sparks backlash
"A doctor at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic sparked an online uproar when he published an article Friday filled with anti-vaccine rhetoric, including the widely debunked claim that vaccines are linked to autism. Physicians took to Twitter to call the article "vile" and "Post-truth medicine" and demand whether the clinic endorsed its doctor's views.
Dr. Daniel Neides, a family doctor and the director and chief operating officer of the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute, wrote on a blog on the news site cleveland.com that preservatives and other ingredients in vaccines are dangerous and are likely behind the increase in diagnosed cases of neurological diseases such as autism - a claim that has long been discredited by researchers.
"Does the vaccine burden – as has been debated for years – cause autism? I don't know and will not debate that here. What I will stand up and scream is that newborns without intact immune systems and detoxification systems are being over-burdened with PRESERVATIVES AND ADJUVANTS IN THE VACCINES," he wrote. Adjuvants are added to vaccines to prompt a stronger immune response."
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Dr. Benjamin Mazer, a resident physician in pathology at Yale-New Haven Hospital who tweeted that the article was "one of the most vile, false things I have ever read by a doctor," said in an interview that it wasn't an isolated event.
"This is really part of a larger movement that distrusts mainstream medicine, distrusts mainstream public health, and really trades in conspiracy theories," he told STAT. "This article is a really prime example of that. It's just a shame that it's a physician spreading these conspiracy theories because people naturally trust physicians."
He was especially appalled at the misinformation that Neides was spreading about hepatitis B vaccines, which, Mazer said, "have prevented thousands of deaths."
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/this-quack-is-the-head-of-an-institute-cleveland-clinic-docs-anti-vaxxer-rant-sparks-online-backlash/
Trump's HHS nominee, Tom Price, is part of a group that spews similar anti-vaxer garbage:
"AAPS, (Association of American Physicians and Surgeons), vision of doctors as special and “outside of the herd” to the point that he ignored its simultaneous promotion of dangerous medical quackery, such as antivaccine pseudoscience blaming vaccines for autism, including a view that is extreme even among antivaccine activists, namely that the “shaken baby syndrome” is a “misdiagnosis” for vaccine injury; its HIV/AIDS denialism; its blaming immigrants for crime and disease; its promotion of the pseudoscience claiming that abortion causes breast cancer using some of the most execrable “science” ever; its rejection of evidence-based guidelines as an unacceptable affront on the godlike autonomy of physicians; or the way the AAPS rejects even the concept of a scientific consensus about anything. Let’s just put it this way. The AAPS has featured publications by antivaccine mercury militia “scientists” Mark and David Geier. Even so, the very fact that Price was attracted enough to this organization and liked it enough to actually join it should raise a number of red flags. It certainly did with me, because I know the AAPS all too well."
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/tom-price-belongs-to-a-really-scary-medical-organization.html
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