British physician Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been branded a primary instigator of the mania that drove parents to avoid having their children undergo routine immunizations for fear that inoculations could produce autism.It was Wakefield’s article, published in 1998 in the premier British medical journal, The Lancet, that gave authority to the proposition that combined inoculations for measles, mumps and rubella were connected to childhood autism.Now, though, the United Kingdom’s General Medical Council, which licenses doctors, has concluded that Wakefield cherry-picked the children who became his study subjects, including paying kids at his son’s birthday party to give blood.The council also found that he subjected children to unnecessary procedures, such as colonoscopies, for experimental purposes without getting ethical approval. Oh, and Wakefield was secretly bankrolled by lawyers who hoped to sue vaccine makers. Oh, and he owned a patent on a competing measles vaccine.Perhaps no one did more than Wakefield to fuel fears of a link between vaccinations and rising autism rates – fears that persist despite numerous studies refuting any connection.As Alison Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation, put it, “That study did a lot of harm. People became afraid of vaccinations. This is the Wakefield legacy: this unscientifically… Read full this story
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