Skepticat UK

In my previous post I gave an account of all the other charges against Andrew Wakefield who is currently before the General Medical Council on charges of professional misconduct. The main ones are:

• that he published inadequately founded research
• that he failed to obtain ethical committee approval for the work
• that he obtained funding for it improperly
• that he subjected children to “unnecessary and invasive investigations”

Source.

In this post I’ll look at the latest allegations.

When the MMR triple vaccine was launched in the UK in 1988, I had no hesitation in making sure both my children got it. I didn’t want them to go through what I’d been through in my own childhood: weeks off school, isolated, miserable and ill in my bedroom. I recovered fully from all the infectious diseases I got. Other children of my generation were left with permanent disabilities. Some died.