By Press Association
Professor John Walker-Smith has taken his case against the General Medical Council to the High Court
The decision to strike off an eminent doctor over the MMR jab controversy has been defended at the High Court as “just and fair – not wrong”.
The General Medical Council (GMC) admitted to a judge that “inadequate reasons” may have been given by a disciplinary panel that found Professor John Walker-Smith guilty of serious professional misconduct. Those reasons related to conflicts over expert evidence.
But Joanna Glynn QC, appearing for the GMC, said: “In spite of inadequate reasons it is quite clear on overwhelming evidence that the charges are made out.”
Professor Walker-Smith is asking Mr Justice Mitting at London’s High Court to rule that he was denied a fair hearing. On the fourth day of his challenge, the judge said that the case had been “complex and difficult from the start – it greatly troubles me”.
The professor is being supported by the parents of many children with autism and bowel disease seen by him at the Royal Free Hospital, north London, up to his retirement in 2001. They say one consequence of the GMC’s decision is that families now face serious difficulties in finding NHS treatment for autistic children with bowel disease.
In May 2010, Prof Walker-Smith lost his license to practice along with Dr Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who triggered a global scare about the MMR vaccine. A GMC fitness to practise panel found both guilty of misconduct over the way the MMR research was conducted. The panel’s verdict followed 217 days of deliberation, making it the longest disciplinary case in the GMC’s 152-year history.
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Professor John Walker-Smith has been dragged into this debate over vaccine safety due to the press and due to the fact that even in 2012 we insist in putting 200 times too much neurotoxic mercury compounds in our February 2012 flu vaccine et al. None of this is needed in a society that has come a long way from the days of the 1930’s when modern techniques of preservation were rudimentary compared to today.
The fault at heart lies in a team of 12 or so looking at autism children who also complained bitterly of having stomachs that hurt them.
A phenomenon already known but at a rate of 40 per cent rather than in every case.
The use of epidemiology for an illness that used to be 1 in 1 000 or even today 20 years on at 1 in 100 is asking too much of the technique and to look at indivual cases is the only way forward to understand causation.
While 999 out of 1 000 resist a neurotoxic element when injected once or today when 1 in 100 resist neurotoxic elements when injected more than once it is a close call if mercury vaccines are to blame.
But somebody at some time will need to decide that THIMEROSAL in vaccines is OUTDATED.
And return to a vaccine schedule of the 1950’s that not only was SAFE but companies were prepared to take the blame for harm.
The good Professor is but a PAWN in the hands of Big HARMA.
For some the paper was an honest attempt at research and could only be construed as harmful to those who need to protect HARM to children rightly being laid at the correct door.
Even today (Feb 2012) we see Barry Wright providing evidence of mercury harm being interpreted wrongly as showing neurotoxic chemicals protect our health.
Boyd Haley once said it was impossible to construct an experiment to show THIMEROSAL was not harmful.
Barry Wright and his team do prove harm but then misinterpret their own results.