The Man Causing the MMR Scare – Charged
Finally and about time – given the huge number of measles outbreaks that have happened, and the deaths and disabilities, I sincerely hope this fuckwad gets everything possible coming to him.
Vaccinate, people! Diseases are bad, mmmkay? Sheesh. Medicine works for hundreds of years towards this goal, and people take 3 steps back the minute it’s available. Idiots.
Andrew Wakefield, who published a research paper in 1998 purporting to show a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, is accused in preliminary charges of publishing “inadequately founded” research, failing to obtain ethical committee approval, obtaining funding “improperly” and of subjecting children to “unnecessary and invasive investigations”, The Independent has learnt. The research is said to have caused immunisation rates to slump and cases of measles, mumps and rubella to soar. The research, which appeared in The Lancet, is said to have done more damage than anything published in a scientific journal in living memory.