Empty your wallet for ANDY one more time!

I've come across the following plea in the autismosphere, and thought I'd share it here, with commentary (in red), of course:

THE PLEA
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Can you PLEAAAASEEEEE do me a very big favor? Go on line today and buy Andy Wakefield's book, Callous Disregard.... (at least the title is accurate).

And, you need to do this TODAY (please). We're trying to get this book to the top of the list and today counts. After being out only one day it's currently at #24 at Amazon.com. We want to see this on the NYT Bestseller List.(I've never seen a plea quite like this before. Do self-respecting authors actually countenance begging people to make their books bestsellers? Ewww.).

Not that you need any encouragement to help someone who helped us like Andy helped our family - and has paid a huge personal and professional price for helping our autistic children everywhere (yes, everywhere, and with huge fiscal recompense, I might add. Let's help him out, folks!) - but Andy is exposing the politics and corruption within medical science and national policymaking which are making it impossible to sort out what drugs help which people (Really? All that stuff on PubMed can't be parsed, can't be sorted out? Only Andy the Demigod can do it?) and are costing people everywhere a lot of money for possibly nothing good (I'll just let this one stand all by itself as irony meters worldwide explode). It's a serious problem that affects us all (this is a statement I can get behind).

Please get out your wallet and send a message (Yes, get out those wallets for Andy, again). We're tired of the politics in medicine and public health (so are we) - and the conflicts of interest (there go some more meters) - and the back room deals which are hurting our children (that sound you just heard was the explosion of any remaining irony meters). Plus you can get the FREE BONUS GIFTS listed in the announcement below (OK...I've also NEVER seen this before--a free "bonus" gift for buying a book? WTF?). (Boldface courtesy of me)

And PLEASE - forward this note - and send out to the biggest email list you can (I'm just posting it here on my blog; hope that counts). If you know someone with autism, they will benefit from having this book (Really? An autistic person will benefit from Wakefield's book? I thought this was all about the parents...and Andy). Let's make a splash (in a cesspool of misinformation). We need to send a message! (Message received. Ad nauseam) We might be the little people but add us up, and we can make lots of noise!!! (This, I acknowledge wholeheartedly. Depressing, but there it is).

Buy Dr. Andrew Wakefield's book today! (No. I'd rather undergo seven hours of torture being forced to read a dozen romance novels. The level of realism is likely about the same anyway.)

As a valued member of our community, we ("we" is the valued member of our community?) have an important recommendation for you - Callous Disregard by Dr. Andrew Wakefield. For the first time, Dr. Wakefield reveals the inside story of the vaccine-autism connection (because doing so when his career and license were on the line before the General Medical Council would, apparently, have been the height of stupidity).

As you probably know, the number of children with autism has grown exponentially in the last 20 years (that'd likely be the number of diagnosed cases, rather than increase in autism) and Dr. Wakefield has dedicated his professional career to helping those affected and to saving children from becoming part of this pandemic (and also creating a vaccine, drawing blood at a birthday party, being found guilty of a long list of charges, violating research ethics six different ways from Sunday, writing a book and allowing offers of bribes of free gifts to make it a bestseller, and switching hypotheses around willy nilly).

We need your help to make Callous Disregard a bestseller, and for Dr. Wakefield's message to be heard by as many parents as possible. Please forward this email message to all of your friends and family to urge them to purchase Callous Disregard TODAY. (No.)

Buy the book TODAY to get the following exclusive bonuses: (Is this the Home Shopping Network or what?)

• An exclusive opportunity to participate in a FREE tele-seminar hosted by Dr. Wakefield to ask any questions you like. (I need this monitor and would prefer not to vomit on it).

• Free chapters from Cutting-Edge Therapies for Autism and recipes of sweet treats and fun snacks from Autism Cookbook, published by Skyhorse. (Free chapters?)

• Free chapters from Stop Raising Einstein, in which Tara Kennedy-Kline shares her experience raising autistic child (We appear to have lost track of both our definite and indefinite articles at this point). In addition,Tara will host a FREE tele-seminar to share the benefits of writing journals with autistic children. (What is wrong, exactly, with raising Einstein? He seems to have done OK.His mother probably thought raising him was all right.)

• Free audio Finding the Gluten-Free Diet That Works for Your Family & Budget from Holistic Autism Consultant Sunshine Boatright. She will host a FREE tele-seminar to help with questions you may have after listening to the audio. (I'm just leaving this one for you to read and enjoy).

Callous Disregard is a great book not only for yourself, but for anyone who cares about children and the safety of vaccines. (No. And I care deeply about children and the safety of vaccines.)

Steps to take TODAY (ALL CAPS, people. This is SERIOUS):

One: Order from SafeMinds Amazon store here. (No. Shan't.)
Just click on Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy (I think Wakefield is the tragedy, but I'm betting that's not what that means).

Two: Forward a copy of your order receipt/confirmation email
to anniejody@... to receive access to your FREE Bonus Gifts and Dr. Wakefield's tele-seminar.

Three: Retrieve your FREE Bonus Gifts! (On The Autism Home Shopping Network! Then, click your heels together three times and say, "There's no demigod like Andy. There's no demigod like Andy.")

Here's what Jenny McCarthy has to say about this book: (This would be the parent whose son was first an Indigo Child, then autistic and vaccine injured, then "cured" of his autism, then...never autistic in the first place? Clearly, this forward contains the words of an expert.)

"I'm so glad Andy Wakefield finally has the chance to tell his story (because doing that before the GMC would have been sheer folly.). Perhaps no debate on the planet right now is more confusing, more conflicting (Middle East, anyone?), or more maddening for parents (She's got me there.) than the debate over the causes and treatments of autism... For hundreds of thousands of parents around the world (Where the hell does she get these huge numbers? I'm assuming from the same places she gets her "data". What Google U course imparted that information?), myself included, Andy Wakefield is a symbol of strength and conviction that all parents of children with autism (which her child does not have) can use to fight for truth and the best lives possible for their kids." (Or not, because we just use our own strength and conviction, which works a lot better for us than symbols).

There you have it kids. Reach into that pocket ONE MORE TIME FOR ANDY!

Or...not.

That's it. Tomorrow, I take this blog back to its regularly scheduled, fairly snark- and Wakefield-free posting. I've got a sweet story about my autistic son and a huge success he's had lately, and we did it all without...oh, nevermind.