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Today we are delighted to bring you the latest essay from Martin J Walker, one of the UK’s longest-standing campaigners on behalf of natural healthcare. For over 20 years, Martin has been at the forefront of exposing the deceitful tactics of the vested interests threatened by natural healthcare, and by the spectre of an informed populace armed with the tools and intent to determine their own health. His latest book, Dirty Medicine: The Handbook, took aim at the, “Doctors, epidemiologists, researchers, advisers, insurance scammers, quackbusters, bad journalists, corporate scientists, industry shills and other agents” arrayed against natural medicine, and provided a template for fighting back.
Martin’s new essay concerns the recent acquittal of Professor John Walker-Smith, one of Andrew Wakefield’s co-accused in the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine/autism affair. Martin is uniquely qualified to comment on this matter, as described below in the opening paragraphs of the essay. Apart from Wakefield and his colleagues themselves, there is no-one in the country with Martin’s perspective and deep knowledge of this court case. Anyone wishing to be truly informed of the implications of Professor Walker-Smith’s acquittal simply has no choice but to read this essay.
It has come to our attention that the PayPal link we initially included for people to pay for the essay was inactive. While we look into getting a payment service up and running, Martin has agreed to make the essay available free of charge for a limited time. All that Martin and ANH-Intl ask is that you spread the essay far and wide – so please share the link to this page by Facebook, Twitter and all the rest!
Lots of Law – Little Justice: Dr Andrew Wakefield and the Acquittal of Professor John Walker-Smith
“This essay places the acquittal at Appeal of Professor John Walker-Smith in the context of the conspiracy against the three doctors, Dr Andrew Wakefield, Dr Simon Murch and Professor Walker-Smith, who were tried in a General Medical Council (GMC) Fitness to Practice Hearing in London between 2007 and 2010. The hearing was the longest in GMC history and one of the longest quasi judicial hearings ever to take place in Britain.
The essay asks two questions specifically, ‘Can justice ever be served in this case if Dr Andrew Wakefield, the principle victim of the conspiracy is denied an independent appeal?’ and ‘In the event of a professional tribunal such as the GMC acting with malice and intimacy of corruption, who might bring such powerful wrongdoers to justice?’
The essay utilizes my experience in observing every day bar one of the GMC hearing over three years and my involvement in the campaign for the parents of vaccine damaged children and Dr Andrew Wakefield between 2005 and 2010. The second half of the essay, which examines two acts of chicanery by the GMC prosecution, relies upon material that I wrote at the end of the hearing on the announcement of the final verdicts. [1]”
[1] Essays that I wrote during the ‘Wakefield campaign’ and the hearing, can still be obtained from http://www.slingshotpublications.com and a full report by me of every day of the hearing can be found on http://www.cryshame.com.
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Although this article is solely distributed by The Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl; anhinternational.org), the copyright in the printed text is retained exclusively by Martin J Walker/Slingshot Publications (www.slingshotpublications.com).
© 2012 by Martin J Walker/Slingshot Publications. All rights reserved
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