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David Gorski, MD, alias “Orac”
Det er sådan her, det sædvanligvis foregår... Du siger, du har din tvivl om vacciners sikkerhed og om alle de vaccinationer som regeringen kræver,at du giver dine børn. Du siger, du er bekymret for de alvorlige bivirkninger, som du bliver ved med at læse om og specielt mulige forbindelser til autisme og autoimmun sygdomme og rapporterne om hjernebetændelse og chok. En typisk reaktion fra mainstream fortalere for vacciner ville være noget i retning af det her....
Åh, du er bare åndssvag, du kender ikke videnskaben. Se her, 99.9% af alle læger og videnskabsmænd vil fortælle dig, at vacciner er sikre og effektive. Den videnskabelige underbygning er solid, det har længe været bevist uden for enhver skygge af tvivl.
Nioghalvfems komma ni procent, det lyder temmeligt overbevisende. Selvfølgeligt er det uklart hvilken formel, undersøgelse eller hvilket studie, der blev brugt til at komme frem med det tal, så du begynder at gøre din egen forskning, og du bliver hurtigt klar over, at der er en masse læger og forskere, såvel som informerede forældre, journalister og forbrugeradvokater, som ikke abonnerer på det etablerede mantra om vacciners sikkerhed og effektivitet. De tror ikke på myten om at videnskaben er enig, og nogen er meget højlydte om deres forbehold eller modstand over for den


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The more you read, the more you start to realize that there is a growing number of doctors, scientists, nurses, and other health care providers who have serious questions about the current vaccine paradigm favored by the pharmaceutical industry, government agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), medical trade groups, and the mainstream media.

Increasingly, professionals within a wide range of health care and science fields are giving interviews and writing articles and books voicing their concerns about vaccine risks, the misrepresentation of the historical role of vaccines in reducing mortality from infectious diseases, the expanding schedule and number of vaccines mandated, or even the basic mechanism theories behind vaccine science.

Predictably, every time you give the name of a contrarian doctor or scientist in response to the 99.9% figure, what you tend to get is, "Eh, well, he's a quack, she's not credible." Also, you get referred to blogs such as Science-Based Medicine,1 or Respectful Insolence2, or the Skeptical Raptor's Blog3. They're often written by or associated with a guy named David Gorski, MD, who also goes by the alias "Orac." Gorski is a surgical oncologist and an assistant professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI4.

Should you wish to debunk someone, anyone, who dares to disagree with mainstream thinking on vaccines, all you need do is inform Orac, and the good doctor will gladly oblige by writing up a boorish piece, long on insult and short on science. Orac's methods are painfully predictable. In one piece earlier this year, he criticized a prominent immunologist5 who had the nerve to write an open letter on vaccine science to state legislators in California about to vote on a bill eliminating personal belief vaccine exemptions. He started out by dismissing the individual's credentials outright. Orac writes:
One of the most irritating problems I have with the antivaccination movement is their over-reliance on false authorities, where they trumpet the publications or commentary from someone who appears to have all of the credentials to be a part of the discussion on vaccines, but really doesn't5.

Comment: The author is talking about Tetyana Obukhanych (Ph.D. in immunology from Rockefeller University, New York, NY) the author of Vaccine Illusion. You can read more about her vaccine research in the following articles:

In the same piece, Orac takes a backhanded swipe at a leading neuroscientist and a molecular biochemist by first acknowledging their "sterling credentials in medicine and science," and then going on to say...
they publish nonsense research (usually filled with the weakest of epidemiology trying to show population level correlation between vaccines and adverse events) in low ranked scientific journals5.
In a crude shot at a pediatrician allowing parents in his practice to make informed, voluntary vaccine decisions for their children, Orac writes:
If [he] weren't such a worthless excuse for a pediatrician when it comes to promoting misinformation about vaccines, I'd almost feel sorry for him. Almost. He is, however, a perfect example of what the phrase 'hoist with his own petard' means6.
Orac took aim at a well-respected nephrologist, who left a successful private practice to speak out about the damage being done by doctors taking a narrow-minded, aggressive approach to vaccination of patients:
As someone who comes from a strong basic science background, having been a chemistry major (who graduated with honors - so, there!), I think I can see [her] problem. First, she seems unduly proud of her science background, wielding it like a talisman against charges that she doesn't know what she's talking about (which she doesn't). Unfortunately, as those of us in medicine know, what you did 25 or more years ago in college has little bearing on what you can or can't understand now7.

Comment: The author is talking about Dr. Suzanne Humphries, a practicing nephrologist. Read more about her research into the safety and efficacy of vaccines:

And here is Orac having a go at a top notch molecular and cellular physiologist:
A real molecular biologist who did real research for various biotech and pharmaceutical companies, apparently competently, for 20 years, she suddenly embraced antivaccine pseudoscience, apparently based on her embrace of fundamentalist Catholicism8.

Catholicism appears to be what first led [her] to embrace her pseudoscientific hypothesis about fetal DNA in vaccines and autism, the tragic death of her child less than a month and a half ago is unlikely to do anything but cement in her mind the evils of vaccines made using fetal cell lines8.
Notice the pattern. This is only a smattering of Orac's handiwork, but you begin to get the idea. The man's defensiveness may have something to do with his research on a Sanofi-Aventis drug called Riluzole (Rilutek)9, which may well eventually be used to treat autism. Riluzole has been approved for clinical trials (for autism) by the FDA, and one can imagine the money that might be at stake if the drug makes it to market10 11 12.

But then, reason would dictate that Orac's criticisms of individuals disagreeing with his views not be so personal and mean-spirited, because it's always more effective in the long-run to present one's case standing atop the moral high ground, instead of down in the gutter.

Orac's collection of disparaging pieces about anyone offering a different perspective about vaccination is so impressive in both volume and diversity it's a wonder the man has any time left for surgery. But rather than take umbrage, those at whom such vitriol is aimed should feel comforted by Socrates' memorable adage, "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." Or its modern-day equivalent by Britain's Maggie Thatcher, "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." (... just replace "political" with "vaccine").

So yes, if you take Orac's trolling and his blogs seriously, you are likely to believe that 99.9% of all doctors and scientists are enthusiastically onboard with the mainstream vaccine paradigm, because you have automatically excluded all those who Orac and others like him are afraid of and try really hard to discredit and silence.

There's that pesky cognitive dissonance rearing its ugly head again.

References

1 Gorski D. Science-Based Medicine: Exploring issues & controversies in science & medicine.
2 Gorski D. Respectful Insolence.
3 Gorski D. Skeptical Raptor's Blog.
4 Wayne State University, Department of Surgery. David Gorski, MD.
5 Gorski D. Appeal to False Authority—Who is Tetyana Obukhanych. Skeptical Raptor's Blog.
6 Gorski D. Quoth "Dr. Bob" Sears: Poor, poor pitiful me, you stupid people. Respectful Insolence. Jan. 21, 2015.
7 Gorski D. Dr. Suzanne Humphries and the International Medical Council on Vaccination: Antivaccine to the core. Respectful Insolence. Feb. 16, 2011.
8 Gorski D. More horrible antivaccine "science" from Theresa Deisher. Respectful Insolence. Aug. 24, 2015.
9 Wayne State University, School of Medicine. Cancer Biology Graduate Program, David H. Gorski.
10 Crosby J. David Gorski's Financial Pharma Ties: What He Didn't Tell You. Age of Autism June 21, 2010.
11 Ghaleiha A, Mohammadi E, Mohammadi MR, Farokhnia M, Modabbernia A, Yekehtaz H, Ashrafi M, Hassanzadeh E, Akhondzadeh S. Riluzole as an adjunctive therapy to risperidone for the treatment of irritability in children with autistic disorder: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial. NCBI
12 Wink LK, Plawecki MH, Erickson CA, Stigler KA, McDougle CJ. Emerging Drugs for the Treatment of Symptoms Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders. NCBI