andrew wakefield

The British court system has said that Wakefield's co-author is to be exonerated from all defamation due to the actions of the GMC in striking his medical standing. There is no practical conclusion, as Walker-Smith retired in 2001, but the news article suggests that this may have a great...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19163717 The organisation still claims though: http://www.babyjabs.co.uk/mmr.htm

Via JackofKent on Twitter who does comment it's not been verified as yet: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/01/legal_thuggery_antivaccine_edition_andre.php?utm_source=selectfeed&utm_medium=rss I hope it's true; the anti-vaccine crowd have caused so much mischief. Let's see him try to...

Yep, Andrew Wakefield, the anti-vaccination child-killer Andrew Wakefield. (Jenny McCarthy wrote the forward to his book in a reciprocal act of insidious pimping.) 728 deaths and counting. On the bill: Richard Gage, Luke Rudkowski, Alan Watt, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Jim Corr, Walter Graham...

I don't know enough about this to comment on the specifics, but this article is making the rounds today on all the "natural" health sites & forums. It claims the charges of fraud against Wakefield are themselves fraudulent Full story: Documents emerge proving Dr Andrew Wakefield innocent...

God dam it. I rather not say anything because I'm freaking pissed. I knew my university had an antivaxer as a faculty member but for ****s sake the university in its infinite stupidity decided to post his opinion of Wakefield on the front page of the university website. :mad...

From CNN:

Hello All, Well not 16 actually, more like 21. It seems that I was unfortunate enough to be a child at a time that the link between vaccinations and autism was being heavily publicised by the British press. My mother denied me the MMR jab (In fact I haven't had any Jabs as far as I know...

This just in from Orac at Respectful Insolence: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/06/andrew_wakefield_exactly_where_he_belong.php So should this thread be elsewhere? Humor? Paranormal? Conspiracy?

I have it on good authority that there's going to be a big anti-vaccine rally in Chicago on Wednesday... http://americanpersonalrights.org In addition, it looks as if Andrew Wakefield himself is going to be there, spreading his woo & nonsense. I do know that there's some of my fellow skeptics...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23837469-callous-doctor-who-claimed-mmr-jab-causes-child-autism-is-struck-off.do About time too.

Nicely summarised: http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/148012.html

Following recent announcements that Wakers is looking for a new position that will entail him using his skills to help children, I have pleasure in revealing his new job. [courtesy of a link from someone called Jennifer Phillips over at orac] Too good not to share.

http://tinyurl.com/ycsh6a7 Andrew Wakefield is a co-author but the lead author and 2 others have serious conflicts of interest that they didn't disclose. I don't know if that was the impetus for Neurotoxicology editors to withdraw the study but I doubt Wakefield's recent woes helped. Este

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2010/02/medical_journal_retracts_autism_paper_12_years_on.php?ref=fpa

Breaking news: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/28/mmr-doctor-fail-children-gmc

More here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5683671.ece

Andrew Wakefield, the discredited researcher whose discredited theory that MMR caused autism, left the UK some time ago to set up shop in the US, where he set up Thoughtful House, a centre for children with autism. It appears that he is trying to relaunch his clinical career by establishing...

This week's BMJ has a couple of MMR related items. The first to catch my eye was "Hero to Zero" - a piece by Michael Fitzpatrick on Wakefield's fall from grace as the media pin-up boy. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/336/7642/479 He tells us about a new book on the saga by Tammy Boyce...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,1983942,00.html Little more need be said, except :)