Oh joy - Andrew Wakefield has written a book. In a brilliant display of his 'special kind of humour' (haha, two children fainted and one threw up over his mother, haha), he has called it "Callous Disregard". This comes from the ruling of UK's General Medical Council, which attested Wakefield "callous disregard for the distress and pain children might suffer". Good one, Andy, wink wink, nudge nudge.
Fiction is Andrew Wakefield's field and has been for over a decade, readers will remember his wonderful work of fiction about children with an autism specific gut inflammation caused by measles containing vaccines published in the Lancet in 1998. Certainly, we can expect the same kind of imagination from his new publication - cannot wait!
(sarcasm off)
You know, with two books coming out from the AoA editors and Wakefield's, some of us are going to feel we must slog our way through them. Not looking forward to giving them money, so I will wait until our library gets them. Maybe we'll put a group together, buy one copy of each and mail them around. That way they don't profit off us and we get to do round robin deconstructions. :-)
ReplyDeleteI have Dr Bob's "The Autism Book" and am willing to send it round once I am finished with it....
ReplyDeleteDeal; picture it, woo books making the rounds of skeptics, with only one copy of each ever being bought. It'll drive 'em crazy over there at AoA. :-)
ReplyDeleteEach of us will have to sign them then and after much skeptical readership, we can auction them for anti-woo charity.
ReplyDeleteYou two are deliciously wicked. I'd pay good money for that, but just for the signatures.
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