Fraud: Autism-vaccine researcher Nailed
Posted On January 8, 2011
Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the-now disgraced British doctor who published studies linking vaccines with autism, committed an “elaborate fraud” by faking data, the British Medical Journal said on Wednesday.
The journal’s editors said it was not possible that Wakefield made a mistake but must have falsified the data for his study, which convinced thousands of parents that vaccines are dangerous and which is blamed for ongoing outbreaks of measles and mumps.
He Is A Fraud
For instance, the reports found that Wakefield, first of all, only included data from 12 children, and that several of them showed symptoms of autism before having been vaccinated.
Fears that vaccines might cause autism have not only caused parents to skip vaccinating their children, but have forced costly reformulations of many vaccines.
In 1998, The Lancet medical journal, a rival to the BMJ, published a study by Wakefield and colleagues linking the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism.
He Is In DENIAL
Unbelievably, Wakefield denied the allegations. “The study is not a lie. The findings that we have made have been replicated in five countries around the world.”
A disciplinary panel of Britain’s General Medical Council said last February that Wakefield had presented his research in an “irresponsible and dishonest” way and had brought the medical profession into disrepute.
“Clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging vaccine scare,” they added.
Many experts have tried to show that vaccines might cause autism. Newer suspicions have focused on thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative once used in many vaccines and since removed from childhood vaccines.
Autism-vaccine researcher a fraud: medical journal | Reuters
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