Just in case anyone hasn’t heard about this already:
THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found. … our investigation, confirmed by evidence presented to the General Medical Council (GMC), reveals that: In most of the 12 cases, the children’s ailments as described in The Lancet were different from their hospital and GP records. Although the research paper claimed that problems came on within days of the jab, in only one case did medical records suggest this was true, and in many of the cases medical concerns had been raised before the children were vaccinated. … Last week official figures showed that 1,348 confirmed cases of measles in England and Wales were reported last year, compared with 56 in 1998. Two children have died of the disease.
–From The Sunday Times.
For more charges against the doctor in question (Andrew Wakefield) see this article in the Times (“The list of allegations against Dr Wakefield took more than an hour to read out“). In particular, he was paid to find a link between vaccines and illness.
Edit: An excellent roundup of the story and responses is here; a useful timeline of the MMR/autism fraud is here.
I’ve done another round-up post — who is saying what about the Deer articles on Wakefield in the London Times. I’ve included this post.
11 years on, Wakefield Manufactured Data showing MMR-Autism Link?
[…] Anti-vaccine child deaths based on lies […]
“In particular, he was paid to find a link between vaccines and illness.” And??? So what else is new? The pro-vaccine guys are all paid to find that the vaccines are safe and effective and they slant their studies, too.
I did my own study. I’m not in the medical profession. Children are grown so I am not looking at vaccinating anyone. I get no money directly or indirectly from any medical company. My study showed a direct link between vaccinations and food allergies. Vaccines have “secret ingredients” that don’t have to be listed on the package insert – protected trade secret. And food allergies are a major problem among children. 8% of young children have food allergies. 1 in 70 people in the UK have a serious peanut allergy. Peanut oil is one of the many oils used in vaccine adjuvants.
It turns out journalist Brian Deer made it up:-
Sunday Times Journalist Made Up Wakefield MMR Data Fixing Allegation:
http://tinyurl.com/djbtzq
And he was helping the US Justice Dept sink 4500 US kids claims for vaccine damage compensation – what kind of normal journalist does that? Ans: none.
US Federal Court, US Justice Dept & The Sunday Times – More Questions Than Answers
http://tinyurl.com/ac5xkt
I know that you, and the other anti-vaccine loons who make these drive-by comments here, wouldn’t believe it if Wakefield came to your house, set your dog on fire, and ate your last TV dinner; but if any readers are wondering about taking these people seriously, don’t bother. Their “proof” that Deer made things up is that Wakefield said so, and Wakefield is an honourable man.
It’s sad that people can be so delusional and credulous. It’s sadder that their delusions have killed at least two children.
Sure, that is why James Murdoch who runs News International the owners of the Sunday Times which has published Deer’s increasingly looking bizarre stories is on the Board of MMR vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline with Sir Crispin Davis. Crispin’s brother is Judge Nigel Davis who decided the case which took away the British MMR kid’s legal aid. In an official statement after on his behalf issued to Joshua Rosenburg, the Telegraph’s legal correspondent Judge Davis said that “the possibility of any conflict of interest had not occurred” to him.
Take a look here:-
“Sunday Times Journalist In Cedillo Vaccine Case Controversy”
http://tinyurl.com/d5nw8b
….and Crispin Davies’ uncle once sat in a taxicab driven by Jim Gudgeon, whose daughter Tracey had MMR vaccine when she was one year old. Methinks this is an obvious conspiracy to cover up the horror effects of vaccine …..Not.
Your silly rants smack of utter desperation, Mr Miller. If Brian Deer is wrong about Wakefield’s work, I would have expected a writ the size of Texas to descend upon the Times, and for Wakefield to sue the pants off Deer for defamation. Can you explain why none of this has happened? Perchance it could be that Deer’s claims are (once again) actually true?
Next time you post a reply, email me so I know. I only saw this by chance.
Why did Wakefield discontinue his libel case? It was impossible for him and his legal team to fight the GMC case and the libel case side-by-side.
The GMC case has been the longest running one ever and has lasted over approximately 140 days. Just double that plus double the preparation time and getting witnesses to both sets of hearings and having the trial Counsel in both places at the same time.
The lawyers sought an adjournment of the libel case and the Court refused.
Perchance pigs could fly?
Like Deer claiming he is not the GMC complainant when a Court judgement records he is and cites three of his letters of complaint. Deer has never produced the letters because he can’t. They show he is the complainant.
And when all the evidence in the GMC has been showing his allegations are barking mad, he reports not one word of it. Instead he comes out with a new claim which he could not find a single expert to confirm has any basis. This is Deer’s latest claim:-
What nonsense. The amazing thing is The Sunday Times published it and now they have been challenged to prove it – funny old thing – they have nothing to back it up – not a single piece of paper or expert [all they have is Brian Deer’s word].
And now the Sunday Times has been ordered to take Brian Deer’s story off the web:-
Sunday
Times Ordered ‘Remove Wakefield MMR “Data Fixing” Story’
And now the Sunday Times has been ordered to take Brian Deer’s story off the web
hmmm – from the “childhealthsafety” website. isn’t this like referring to an article published on the Ku Klux Klan website as evidence that whites are superior?
This matter can be resolved when the GMC makes its ruling, not by showing links to unbalanced websites.
My study showed a direct link between vaccinations and food allergies.
I assume your study is ethically conducted, internally valid, and will survive scrutiny by statisticians (including an appropriate multivariate technique that compensates for known confounding variables and provides odds ratios and confidence intervals). If so please provide a link or reference so we may follow it up (In fact it would be completely unethical not to submit such a study for publication).
I realize this is a late reply but if I got here by Googling, others might as well, so I feel it’s as well to set the record straight about some false claims made in the comments.
Clifford G. Miller claimed that Brian Deer was the complainant in Andrew Wakefield’s case before the GMC.
As anyone can quickly verify for themselves with just seconds of independent research, “complainant” is a term with a specific legal meaning, akin to “plaintiff”. One does not become the complainant in a case merely by making a complaint, any more than Mr. Miller, by publicly defending Andrew Wakefield, has become Wakefield’s “public defender.” This might be an understandable mistake if one is not from the UK and does not know the terms of their legal system — but Mr. Miller is from Beckenham, Kent. One wonders what his excuse is.
Also, it may be interesting to note that all of Mr. Miller’s citations are to the ChildHealthSafety blog (well, except the one which links to “http://www.us federal court, us justice dept & the sunday times – more questions than answers.com/” — wonder why that one doesn’t resolve?) That would be an interesting fact to consider if it were to turn out that the ChildHealthSafety blog is in fact run by Mr. Miller…
Found this article whilst bouncing around the web looking at MMR issues. I completely missed this story at the time and I find it quite nauseating that a so called Dr would want to spread such misinformation.
Amazing! I heard about this issue. I never thought that lies are behind that case. Anyway, thanks for posting this. It’s a great thing that I stumbled upon this or else I would really be scared of letting my future kids have MMR vaccine.
The controversy around vaccines never stops. From personal experience I believe vaccines (which often contain ingredients from eggs) made my son highly allergic to egss. Also, my dog was vaccinated for Lyme’s disease and immediately developed liver problems and died. So I’m still not sold that they are always in everyone’s best interested, yet clearly they keep diseases at bay. It’s a dilemma.
Misreporting facts for personal gain is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. If somebody where to do this to my brother? I’d be furious. Absolutely furious. This is…horrifying…
My wife and I have been having the immunization debate recently and I have been getting more and more wound up searching for information to convince her that the anti-immunization movement is based on anecdote and bad research. It is simply beyond me how the debate is still alive in the wake of this.
I have a Chiropractor friend, where he is convinced that vaccines do more harm than good, AND are the main cause behind autism—really? He says the school basically teaches them this garbage. The problem is when certain movements are SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THEIR BELIEFS, they automatically dismiss and try to discredit any opposing evidence like the aforementioned article in the Sunday Times.