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Andrew Wakefield’s Autism Study Is Declared An Elaborate Fraud

Posted by Phil Ferguson on January 5th, 2011 – 2 Comments – Posted in Anti Vax

from CNN.

NO SHIT!

An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study’s author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study — and that there was “no doubt” Wakefield was responsible.

First of all 12 patients is not a significant number.  No one should have ever given this study any credit in the first place.  Not only is the 12 a problem but it has been confirmed that he faked the data.   Mr. Wakefield is a fraud.

“It’s one thing to have a bad study, a study full of error, and for the authors then to admit that they made errors,” Fiona Godlee, BMJ’s editor-in-chief, told CNN. “But in this case, we have a very different picture of what seems to be a deliberate attempt to create an impression that there was a link by falsifying the data.”

Wakefield should be in jail.  He has blood on his hands.

According to BMJ, Wakefield received more than 435,000 pounds ($674,000) from the lawyers. Godlee said the study shows that of the 12 cases Wakefield examined in his paper, five showed developmental problems before receiving the MMR vaccine and three never had autism.

“It’s always hard to explain fraud and where it affects people to lie in science,” Godlee said. “But it does seem a financial motive was underlying this, both in terms of payments by lawyers and through legal aid grants that he received but also through financial schemes that he hoped would benefit him through diagnostic and other tests for autism and MMR-related issues.”

Go read the whole story.

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  1. Paul @ brokeforcollege says:
    January 6, 2011 at 10:35 AM

    Its nice to see a mainstream media outlet picking up and covering this story. No doubt though that it won’t have the impact that it should. The people who bought into this nonsense in the first place aren’t going to let a little thing like facts get in the way of the belief that they have created.

  2. Phil says:
    January 6, 2011 at 7:59 PM

    @ paul
    They still gave too much time to the fraud.

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