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Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956) is a British fraudster, discredited academic, anti-vaccine activist, and former physician. He was struck off the medical register for his involvement in The Lancet MMR autism fraud, a 1998 study that fraudulently claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.
Feb 28, 2018 · February 28, 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of an infamous article published in the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, in which Andrew Wakefield, a former British doctor, falsely linked...
Aug 4, 2023 · Updated on August 04, 2023. Fact checked by Marley Hall. Print. Andrew Wakefield is among the most controversial figures in autism circles. His research on the question of whether the Mumps-Measles-Rubella (MMR) vaccine could be the cause of an autism epidemic has created a huge rift in the autism community.
May 4, 2018 · Who is Andrew Wakefield? Andrew Wakefield is a former British doctor and researcher, who birthed the modern anti-vaccination movement with widely discredited research, since withdrawn by...
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In February 1998, a group led by Andrew Wakefield published a paper [1] in the respected British medical journal The Lancet, supported by a press conference at the Royal Free Hospital in London, where the research was carried out.
Jan 6, 2011 · Drawing on interviews, documents, and data made public at the GMC hearings, Deer shows how Wakefield altered numerous facts about the patients’ medical histories in order to support his claim to have identified a new syndrome; how his institution, the Royal Free Hospital and Medical School in London, supported him as he sought to exploit the ens...
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Feb 27, 2018 · The study, led by the now discredited physician-researcher Andrew Wakefield, involved 12 children and suggested there’s a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine — which is...
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