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Feb 27, 2018 · Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent paper suggesting a link between vaccines and autism shouldn’t have been published — let alone showered in media attention. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images. Two...
- Julia Belluz
Jan 5, 2011 · Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced “MMR doctor” who claimed a link between MMR and autism, planned secret businesses intended to make huge sums of money in Britain and America from his now-discredited allegations. The Wakefield scheme is exposed in the second part of the series of special reports.
Apr 4, 2008 · Last week the GMC panel saw video footage of a speech Dr Wakefield gave in 1999 at a meeting of parents of autistic children called by the Mind Institute of the University of California, Davis, where he jokingly described children fainting and vomiting after giving blood.
- Owen Dyer
- 2008
Jan 6, 2011 · (CBS/AP) Dr. Andrew Wakefield is either the victim of "a ruthless, pragmatic attempt to crush any attempt to investigate valid vaccine safety concerns" as he describes it or a huckster paid by...
- CBS News
In October 2012, research published in PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, identified Wakefield's 1998 paper as the most cited retracted scientific paper, with 758 citations, and gave the "reason for retraction" as "fraud".
The paper, authored by now discredited and deregistered Andrew Wakefield, and twelve coauthors, falsely claimed causative links between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and colitis and between colitis and autism.
Oct 27, 2020 · It was in this context that, in 1998, Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues published a now-infamous and retracted paper in The Lancet, following which, in 2010, Wakefield was struck off the UK ...
