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Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956) [3] [4] [a] is a British fraudster, discredited academic, anti-vaccine activist, and dismissed former physician. Wakefield was struck off the medical register for his involvement in The Lancet MMR autism fraud , a 1998 study that fraudulently claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella ...
Andrew Wakefield (Overview of pseudoscientific concepts) On 28 February 1998, a fraudulent research paper by physician Andrew Wakefield and twelve coauthors, titled "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children" , was published in the British medical journal The Lancet . [ 1 ]
Credit - Getty Images. I was just starting out in pediatrics in 1998 when Andrew Wakefield published the study that would haunt my entire career in primary care. The article in The Lancet claimed ...
Early last year, The Lancet retracted the study by the now disgraced former British doctor Andrew Wakefield. ... The Wakefield study simply gave the anti-vaccine movement a shot in the arm (pun ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 February 2025. "MMR vaccine fraud" redirects here. For more about the The Lancet article that was published in 1998, see Lancet MMR autism fraud. False claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism Part of a series on Alternative medicine General information Alternative medicine History ...
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines is a 2020 non-fiction book by Brian Deer, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.Written in narrative style, it sets out Deer's investigation of Andrew Wakefield and the Lancet MMR autism fraud.
The idea of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism came to prominence after the publication of a paper by Andrew Wakefield and others in The Lancet in 1998. This paper, which was retracted in 2010 and whose publication led to Wakefield being struck off the United Kingdom medical register , has been described as "the most damaging medical ...
Andrew Wakefield (UK), a former surgeon and senior lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital in London, was found guilty of dishonesty in his research and banned from medicine by the UK General Medical Council following an investigation by Brian Deer of the Sunday Times. [201]