Comments on: Who’s harming whom?: Misconduct charges brought against Andrew Wakefield

By: Press Release about the NAA and Research by Wakefield

Press Release about the NAA and Research by Wakefield — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:52:29 +0000

[...] article in the journal Lancet set off a scare about an autism-MMR link, and who currently faces misconduct charges in the UK and may not be allowed to practice medicine there [...]

By: MMR Vaccine Does Not Cause Autism (not that you didn’t know that already)

MMR Vaccine Does Not Cause Autism (not that you didn’t know that already) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:55:12 +0000

[...] no link between the measles vaccine and autism. Researchers replicated the 1998 Lancet study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield that claimed such a link, and that led to widespread fear that the vaccine could cause autism and, [...]

By: Biomed, Anecdotal Evidence, and Thoughtful House

Biomed, Anecdotal Evidence, and Thoughtful House — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:34:50 +0000

[...] the controversy about Wakefield and his theories about autism causation and the misconduct charges against him in the UK, go here, here, and [...]

By: Legal Standards, Science, and the Cause of Autism

Legal Standards, Science, and the Cause of Autism — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:33:44 +0000

[...] disowned the paper and Wakefield is to appear before the General Medical Council (GMC) on “alleged irregularities in his research methods,” as the March 27th BBC News notes. Specifically, Dr. Wakefield (who has sometimes been [...]

By: New Study Casts Doubt on Leaky Gut Theory of Autism

New Study Casts Doubt on Leaky Gut Theory of Autism — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:46:12 +0000

[...] “leak” into the gut and affect the brain. A major proponent of this theory was Dr. Andrew Wakefield; the “leaky gut” theory (which is a theory) led to parents trying special diets (such [...]

By: Autism Vox » The Vaccine-Autism Urban Myth

Autism Vox » The Vaccine-Autism Urban Myth — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:07:41 +0000

[...] When I was enrolling Charlie in the school district in the town we now live in back in May, I discovered that a letter stating our “religious grounds” for objecting to his being vaccinated was not going to be accepted without having to take things much farther. We were desperate, not because we have an autistic child, but because we needed to make sure that Charlie was in a school placement as his old school was closing, and the fear he underwent when we kept him out of school in November of 2005 seemed to us much worse than any threated from a vaccine. Late last spring, Charlie received the shots he had not had at the age of 5. He looked at the nurse sticking the needle in his arm, maybe winced a bit. There was no crying and we walked out to the car, and that was that. [...]

By: Autism Vox » How To Treat Autism According to Dr. Wakefield

Autism Vox » How To Treat Autism According to Dr. Wakefield — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:15:25 +0000

[...] Dr. Wakefield faces a General Medical Council hearing for misconduct this year. It has also been also recently reported (see the articles written by journalist Brian Deer) that, two years prior to his published study on a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, Dr. Wakefield had begun to receive payments from the very lawyers who were pursuing lawsuits against vaccine makers on behalf of autistic children in England (see Buying Results: On Bias in Research). [...]

By: Autism Vox » In which I disagree with David Kirby

Autism Vox » In which I disagree with David Kirby — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:00:16 +0000

[...] Without getting into my own political proclivities or what I think about vaccines and autism (that’s in this post), I wish to note one aspect of Kirby’s article that I am in complete disagreement with. [...]

By: Autism Vox » A mother worries: Should I gave my girl the MMR jab?

Autism Vox » A mother worries: Should I gave my girl the MMR jab? — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:33:36 +0000

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By: Autism Vox » Let’s not make Wakefield a martyr

Autism Vox » Let’s not make Wakefield a martyr — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:18:22 +0000

[...] Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick of spiked and author of MMR and Autism: What Parents Need to Know argues that he does not think that Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the doctor whose name is most linked with the MMR/autism theory, should be struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council (GMC). In Stop witch-hunting Wakefield , Dr. Fitzgerald notes that There is a danger that the prosecution of Dr Wakefield, which is not expected to start until next year, nearly a decade after the launch of the scare, will turn into a witch-hunt. This would play into the hands of Dr Wakefield in his self-indulgent posture of victimhood and encourage his supporters to move even further down the road towards canonising him as a martyr. It also reflects a degree of bad faith in the medical establishment as it attempts to compensate for its failure to respond effectively to the anti-MMR campaign at an earlier stage. The GMC charges fail to identify Dr Wakefield’s most important offence: this was not that he produced poor-quality science, but that instead of substantiating his improbable hypothesis, he embarked on a public campaign against MMR that could not be justified scientifically. But this campaign demanded a prompt and forceful challenge in scientific and political terms, not disciplinary measures 10 years later. [...]