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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 28th 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 ]
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.
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 ...
This was originally a declined draft. It was moved here to allow for research. Wakefield 1998 Paper Fraud. On 28 February 1998, Andrew Wakefield was the lead author on a paper in the British medical journal Lancet titled "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children".
Although challenging Andrew Wakefield's views about immunisation, Goldacre repeatedly defended Wakefield against an investigation by The Sunday Times into Wakefield's fraudulent 1998 paper in The Lancet, prompting criticism from the newspaper's reporter Brian Deer. [67] Writing in The Guardian in September 2005, Goldacre argued:
[205] [206] Wakefield has had two papers retracted and one corrected. [207] Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories fabricated research data to the extent that upon FDA analysis of 867 studies, 618 (71%) were deemed invalid, including many of which were used to gain regulatory approval for widely used household and industrial products. [208] [209]
Hear the Silence is a 2003 semi-fictional TV drama based around the discredited idea of a potential link between the MMR vaccine and autism. [1] By then, a contentious issue, the supposed connection originated in a paper by Andrew Wakefield published in 1998. [2]