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Friday January 29, 2010 12:27

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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.

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Comments (36 of 36)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	Lancet formally retracts 1998 paper linking vaccine and autism	Dr Doom	Tue Feb 02, 2010 18:52
2	Still not a closed case	SionnachtheHeyoka	Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:13
3	What the GMC inquisition was really about	soubresauts	Fri Feb 05, 2010 22:41
4	Why are journalists afraid to ask questions?	soubresauts	Fri Feb 05, 2010 23:11
5	Dr Wakefield	Damien	Sun Feb 07, 2010 16:29
6	The Tragedy Of The Fraudulent MMR Autism Link, A Personal Story	CN	Mon Feb 07, 2011 18:44
7	This topic discussed on Gary Null show.	Terence	Mon Feb 07, 2011 21:29
8	You just can't trust big pharma full stop.	ferret	Tue Feb 08, 2011 15:08
9	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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