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The Real Dangers in the False COVID Remedy Promoters Like Bret Weinstein
by Jef Rouner, Houston PressTwo months ago, I implored people to get vaccinated against COVID instead of taking horse dewormer, and my email has been a circus train of screwballs ever since. By far, the largest number of messages I get implore me to seek out the work of Bret Weinstein, a “professor in exile” and podcaster. I did just that, and I now believe the world is now in the beginning stages of Andrew Wakefield 2.0. Get a snack because it’s going to take us a while to get there.
Wakefield was a British doctor. I mean was as in “no longer allowed to be a doctor” for reasons that will soon be abundantly clear. In 1998, he launched the modern anti-vaccination movement by claiming that there was a link between autism in children and the MMR vaccine when he published a study in the prestigious journal Lancet. His work spread like wildfire, leading to multiple measles outbreaks all over the world including Texas. The disease was declared extinct in the United States in 2000, but he managed to bring it back to horrific results like the world’s worst version of Jurassic Park.
Eventually, it was revealed that Wakefield’s results could not be replicated, and Lancet retracted the paper. Further digging into Wakefield, mostly by absolute hero journalist Brian Deer, revealed that Wakefield had outright falsified many of his results and basically made up an illness called autistic enterocolitis. He also performed colonoscopies on patients without disclosing the dangers of the procedure on children.
Why? The answer is money according to the British Medical Journal . Wakefield was in the employ of a lawyer, Richard Barr, who wanted to bring a lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers. Wakefield’s study was supposed to be the backbone of the case. Wakefield said in a press conference that he thought a single shot for measles would be safer. Conveniently, he filed a patent for just such a shot in 1998.
Read more: https://www.houstonpress.com/news/a-possible-new-anti-vaccine-scam-is-on-the-rise-11591162
