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Fall of Andrew Wakefield, ‘dishonest’ doctor who started MMR scare

category international | consumer issues | other press author Friday January 29, 2010 12:27author by Dr Doom Report this post to the editors

At last Wakefield has been exposed as the crook that he is. He spread scare stories about the MNR Vaccine knowing that his claims were false.

The doctor who sparked a worldwide panic over the MMR vaccine could be struck off after being found guilty yesterday of a series of misconduct charges related to his “unethical” research. Andrew Wakefield, who in 1998 claimed an unfounded link between the vaccination and autism, “showed a callous disregard” for the suffering of children, subjecting them to unnecessary, invasive tests, a hearing found. The General Medical Council (GMC) ruled that he abused his position of trust as he researched a possible link between the MMR vaccine, bowel disease and autism in children.

It found that Wakefield and two colleagues acted dishonestly and irresponsibly in carrying out research on children against their best interests and without official permission.

The GMC ruled that Wakefield, who was working at the Royal Free Hospital in London as a gastroenterologist at the time, did not have the ethical approval or qualifications to oversee the study, which involved children undergoing colonoscopies, lumbar punctures, barium meals and brain scans.

He was also found to have brought the medical profession into disrepute after taking blood samples from youngsters at his son's birthday party in return for payments of £5 and failing to disclose vital conflicts of interest.

Related Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article7006525.ece

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Lancet formally retracts 1998 paper linking vaccine and autism     Dr Doom    Tue Feb 02, 2010 18:52 
   Still not a closed case     SionnachtheHeyoka    Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:13 
   What the GMC inquisition was really about     soubresauts    Fri Feb 05, 2010 22:41 
   Why are journalists afraid to ask questions?     soubresauts    Fri Feb 05, 2010 23:11 
   Dr Wakefield     Damien    Sun Feb 07, 2010 16:29 
   The Tragedy Of The Fraudulent MMR Autism Link, A Personal Story     CN    Mon Feb 07, 2011 18:44 
   This topic discussed on Gary Null show.     Terence    Mon Feb 07, 2011 21:29 
   You just can't trust big pharma full stop.     ferret    Tue Feb 08, 2011 15:08 
   Vaccine     Jerry Cornelius    Tue Feb 08, 2011 19:06 
 10   stop arguing about something we both agree on.     ferret    Wed Feb 09, 2011 15:32 
 11   ferret     JC    Wed Feb 09, 2011 15:38 
 12   Some sanity to the topic of vaccines     Terence    Wed Feb 09, 2011 22:09 
 13   @ J.C. please don't put words in my mouth...     ferret    Sun Feb 13, 2011 23:56 
 14   To Jerry Cornelius     AC (somewhat of a pharma insider)    Wed Feb 16, 2011 02:03 
 15   ...A Giant Among Men     AntiPharma    Wed Aug 03, 2011 00:30 
 16   HOLD UP     AntiPharma    Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:24 
 17   how do you know what you know?     AntiPharma    Wed Aug 03, 2011 20:42 
 18   Primary Sources     AntiPharma    Thu Aug 04, 2011 15:33 
 19   @gerald...you're just being an ass     AntiPharma    Thu Aug 04, 2011 17:08 
 20   @'anti'pharma     Damien Mooney    Thu Aug 04, 2011 23:41 
 21   Nope     Damien Mooney    Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:50 
 22   The numbers game     Damien Mooney    Fri Aug 05, 2011 22:18 
 23   Interesting     Damien Mooney    Fri Aug 05, 2011 23:22 
 24   Sleazy Sales tactics     Damien Mooney    Sat Aug 06, 2011 12:57 
 25   Increased autism rates crush vaccine hypothesis     Ossie Bastable    Thu Apr 05, 2012 21:10 
 26   Increased detection rates~     Damien M    Fri Apr 06, 2012 20:22 
 27   Damien     Ossie    Fri Apr 06, 2012 23:19 
 28   Wakefield     Miriam Cotton    Fri Apr 13, 2012 15:30 
 29   US father petitions local authority to ban all unimmunised children from cancer recovering son's school     Ben    Mon Feb 02, 2015 00:54 
 30   California Moves to Ban All Vaccination Exemptions     Ben    Fri Feb 06, 2015 19:28 
 31   Measles vaccination rates in parts of Africa surpass those in North America     Ben    Sun Feb 08, 2015 13:43 
 32   Unfounded vaccine myths harm measles herd immunity     Ben    Wed Feb 11, 2015 15:25 
 33   anti-vacs lunacy     immuned    Wed Feb 11, 2015 19:01 
 34   US officials urge measles vaccination     Ben    Thu Feb 19, 2015 19:44 
 35   Here's What Some of California's Least Vaccinated Schools Have to Say for Themselves     Ben    Mon Feb 23, 2015 12:45 
 36   Mom abandons anti-vaccine movement after all 7 of her kids get pertussis.     Ben    Sat Apr 11, 2015 23:24 


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