MMR: Former medical chief claims a link to autism

The MMR-autism debate just won't die down, especially when our governments are hell-bent on putting ever more vaccines into our children's immature bodies. At the latest count, a child will have been given 25 different vaccines by the time he reaches the ripe old age of two.
The news that, from next April, UK children will be given a new three-in-one jab against pneumococcal infection comes in the same week that the UK's former Chief Scientific Officer says that the government's refusal to evaluate the risk of autism from the MMR jab could be 'one of the greatest scandals in medical history'.
Dr Peter Fletcher, former Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health, has studied thousands of documents, which are currently suppressed. He wants them released to the public as they form a 'steady accumulation of evidence' that the MMR vaccine causes brain damage in some children.
Unfortunately, he said, 'there are very powerful people in positions of great authority in Britain and elsewhere who have staked their reputations and careers on the safety of MMR and they are willing to do almost anything to protect themselves.'
He says that the evidence is too great to ignore, 'yet government health authorities are, it seems, more than happy to do so'.
They also seem more than happy to add to the vaccination load. The new vaccine is intended to protect against pneomococcal infection, which can cause blood poisoning, meningitis and pneumonia. It's reckoned that up to 50 children under the age of two die each year from the infection.
Vaccine supporters such as Adam Finn, a pediatrician at the University of Bristol, says that the vaccine load is an understandable concern among parents, 'but we have no reason for it to be a problem', he said, although failing to explain why parents needn't be worried.
Perhaps he has in mind Dr George Kassianos, a spokesman for the Royal College of Practitioners. The vaccine overload is not an issue, he has said, as long as the nurse allows 2.5 centimetres between two injection points on the same thigh.
Thank goodness that silly concern has been cleared up, and in such an erudite fashion, too.