Dr. Andrew Wakefield is the Canadian doctor who in 1998 published a paper, along with other researchers, analysing some perplexing conditions in 8 British children who had apparently come down with inflammatory bowel and other symptoms, and had apparently regressed into autism, shortly after receiving the combined measles-mumps-rubella shot.
The British National Health Service (NHS) panicked on seeing the report, and Wakefield, like other unruly doctors, was hounded out of Britain. He now works in the US.
On 4th February 2009, Dr. Wakefield (with other US researchers) published a response to a misleadingly white-washing paper on the safety of vaccinations, written by Dr. Ari Brown (link). That week-end, 8th February, Rupert Murdoch's London Sunday Times (sister to Fox News) published a piece by Brian Deer rehashing the same tired old charges against Dr Wakefield, including the charge that Dr Wakefield relied on parents' accounts their children's disease progress rather than GP records (Sunday Times Sinks to New Low with Yet More Junk Journalism).
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