The Survival of the Most Corrupt
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer
of the Survival of the Most Corrupt
is more accurate, and is sometimes
equally convenient.
With apologies to Darwin and Mr Herbert Spencer
And so it came to be that Dr Kumar, the Chairman of the GMC Fitness to Practice Panel
trying Dr Andrew Wakefield, Professor Simon Murch and Professor Walker-Smith sat
without the flicker of a smile on his face, leaning on the long plastic topped table
and read out the verdicts to the many charges. The Panel found that; most of the
children in the Lancet paper had been experimented upon outside the inclusion dates
of research ethical committee approval 172/96. That a number of the children had
been subjected to aggressive procedures not sanctioned by any research ethics committee.
That in most cases parental approval had not been lodged in the case files and that
Dr Wakefield had "treated children with a 'callous disregard' for the distress and
pain that he knew or ought to have known the children involved might suffer. This
latter aside, although repeated by the media incessantly throughout Thursday night,
actually referred to the taking of a small quantity of blood by a trained professional
from 5 healthy children, whose parents were friends of the Wakefield's; a control
sample for a study. This had nothing to do with the experimental procedures that
were supposedly carried out by Dr Wakefield on the 12 children reviewed in the Lancet
paper.
As the recitation of the crimes of Dr Wakefield came to an end, it appeared as if
Dr Wakefield, had in the mid nineties, been some kind of inhuman Nazi experimenter
practicing on children in the heart of England; an overlooked human vivisector who
stalked a large North London hospital committing serious crimes with the two other
criminals in his firm, invisible to his colleagues and unseen by the hospital administration.
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