Over at Age of Autism today, financial whizz Mark Blaxill subjected Paul Offit’s finances to his usual searing intellect. I can’t quote from his post because its just to smart for me to understand!
Anyway, his conclusion has drawn the following response from Paul Offit in an email:
Just for the record: I no longer financially benefit from the sales of RotaTeq. My financial interests in that vaccine have been sold out by either The Wistar Institute, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, or me. I will, however, continue to stand up for the science of vaccines because unfounded fears about vaccines have hurt children. That is why I do what I do and why I have always done it. And I will continue to closely follow the distribution of rotavirus vaccines because these vaccines have the potential to save as many as 2,000 children a day, which is why I joined the research team at Children’s Hospital.
Seems pretty clear to me :)
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Thanks for getting this comment, Kev. You've probably saved me about 30minutes that it would take to find out the status of the licensing myself. I started to do this earlier, as Mr. Blaxill's response to "Deadly Choices" was pretty obvious. But I decided to give myself a Christmas present: I stopped reading AoA for a while and, with that, so went this project.
Mr. Blaxill gives his colleagues way too much credit--and spends too much time doing it. I doubt that sales of Rotateq are in any way affected by their activities.
I wish he had included how much the frivolous law suits they have instigated against Dr. Offit cost his colleagues. Can't have been cheap.
Over at Age of Autism today, financial whizz Mark Blaxill subjected Paul Offit’s finances to his usual searing intellect. I can’t quote from his post because its just to smart for me to understand!
Anyway, his conclusion has drawn the following response from Paul Offit in an email:
Seems pretty clear to me :)
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Kev and others. Kev said: Paul Offit responds to Mark Blaxill: Over at Age of Autism today, financial whizz Mark Blaxill subj... http://bit.ly/fPP1YW [...]
Thanks for getting this comment, Kev. You've probably saved me about 30minutes that it would take to find out the status of the licensing myself. I started to do this earlier, as Mr. Blaxill's response to "Deadly Choices" was pretty obvious. But I decided to give myself a Christmas present: I stopped reading AoA for a while and, with that, so went this project. Mr. Blaxill gives his colleagues way too much credit--and spends too much time doing it. I doubt that sales of Rotateq are in any way affected by their activities. I wish he had included how much the frivolous law suits they have instigated against Dr. Offit cost his colleagues. Can't have been cheap.
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