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Martin Walker

Martin Walker

Martin Walker has been a campaigner, a political poster artist and a writer for most of his adult life. His twelve books and large number of posters reflect his involvement in campaigns since the early seventies. Before 1993, he was mainly involved in campaigns over wrongful arrest and imprisonment but in 1990 began investigating pharmaceutical funded corporate lobby groups. His 1993 book Dirty Medicine: Science Big Business and the assault on natural health care, is considered ground-breaking by many who have followed the growth and development of these pro-pharmaceutical anti-alternative health lobbies. For five years between 2005 and 2010 he worked with the parents of children damaged by the MMR vaccine who supported Dr Andrew Wakefield in his trumped-up three year trumped-up trial before the UK General Medical Council. His latest book Dirty Medicine: The Handbook was published in May 201. Information about all his books and essays can be found on his web site: www.SlingshotPublications.com.

Martin's photo by Nigel Luckhurst

Vaccine Damage Denial and the British Press

Mon, Nov 21, 2011

The contemporary deep silence on vaccine damage, and the role of the press appears to be a complete reversal of the position forty years ago when, for example, The Sunday Times and its journalists campaigned over a seven year period, under the leadership of the paper's editor, to bring to light the cases of mothers and their children affected by Thalidomide. The media in Britain has now almost completely shut down on the Dr. Wakefield related MMR story. Although journalists themselves and people 'in the know', tend to offer blasé explanations for the lack of media investigation, such as 'the story is written-out', it would be quite irrational to imagine that the massively funded science lobby groups are not burrowing away in the background, achieving their objectives.

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