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Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956) is a British fraudster, discredited academic, anti-vaccine activist, and former physician. He 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 (MMR) vaccine and autism .
The Lancet MMR autism fraud centered on the publication in February 1998 of a fraudulent research paper titled "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children" in The Lancet. [1] The paper, authored by now discredited and deregistered Andrew Wakefield, and twelve coauthors, falsely ...
t. e. Claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism have been extensively investigated and found to be false. [1] The link was first suggested in the early 1990s and came to public notice largely as a result of the 1998 Lancet MMR autism fraud, characterised as "perhaps the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years". [2]
British medical researchers recently discredited the work of one of their colleagues, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who first made headlines more than a decade ago when he linked cases of autism to some ...
In Denmark, scientific misconduct is defined as "intention [al] negligence leading to fabrication of the scientific message or a false credit or emphasis given to a scientist", and in Sweden as "intention [al] distortion of the research process by fabrication of data, text, hypothesis, or methods from another researcher's manuscript form or ...
Every $1 spent on the childhood series of seven vaccines (DTaP, Td, Hib, polio, MMR, hepatitis B, and varicella) saves $16.50 of medical spending later. "Routine childhood vaccination with these ...
British medical researchers recently discredited the work of one of their colleagues, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who first made headlines more than a decade ago when he linked cases of autism to some ...
Michelle Cedillo v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, also known as Cedillo, was a court case involving the family of Michelle Cedillo, an autistic girl whose parents sued the United States government because they believed that her autism was caused by her receipt of both the measles-mumps-and-rubella vaccine (also known as the MMR vaccine) and thimerosal-containing vaccines.