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Many in the autism parents’ community think the Wakefield trial in the UK was a “show trial”. My brother Mark, one of the founders of SAFE MINDS, wrote this essay posted on the Age of Autism blog last December before the recent verdict. Here’s one key passage: “Casting the treatment of Wakefield as a religious response is the only way to make sense of the behavior of the medical establishment over the last several years. If it were not so serious, its escalating absurdity would begin to resemble farce. One example is the latest defense of the ever-expanding childhood immunization program. Instead of embracing the importance of improving vaccine safety, the program’s defenders have now declared that the temple of the sacred program must never be defiled, and certainly must not be subjected to conventional safety research” – mab