Antivaxxer Dr Andrew Wakefield Found Guilty Of Professional Misconduct
Posted by Phil Ferguson on May 25th, 2010 – 2 Comments – Posted in Anti VaxNews from the BBC. Dr. Wakefield is guilty of serious professional misconduct. The General Medical Council (GMC) completed their two and one half year review.
During the two-and-a-half-year case, the longest in GMC history, he was accused of carrying out invasive tests on vulnerable children which were against their best interests.
The GMC also said Dr Wakefield, who was working at London’s Royal Free Hospital as a gastroenterologist at the time, did not have the ethical approval or relevant qualifications for such tests.
And the panel hearing the case took exception with the way he gathered blood samples. Dr Wakefield paid children £5 for the samples at his son’s birthday party.
It also said Dr Wakefield should have disclosed the fact that he had been paid to advise solicitors acting for parents who believed their children had been harmed by the MMR.
He was also removed from the official list of doctors.
In making the verdict on the sanctions, Dr Surendra Kumar, the panel’s chairman, said Dr Wakefield had “brought the medical profession into disrepute” and his behaviour constituted “multiple separate instances of serious professional misconduct”.
In total, he was found guilty of more than 30 charges.
Dr Kumar also explained the reasoning for striking Dr Wakefield off.
“The panel concluded that it is the only sanction that is appropriate to protect patients and is in the wider public interest, including the maintenance of public trust and confidence in the profession, and is proportionate to the serious and wide-ranging findings made against him.”
I’m not sure it’s enough.
But I also think he has all the...
This must be the medical/pharmaceutical establishments answer to Dr Poul Thorsen who is accused of committing fraud in his studies. His publicized autism reports were published in New England Journal of Medicine. Thorsen was a leading member of a Danish research group that wrote several key studies supporting CDC`s claims that the MMR vaccine and other mercury-laden vaccines were safe for children.
The investigation so far has found that Thorsen had falsified documents and was in violation of university rules, because he accepted salaries from both the Danish University and Emory University. At Emory University, Thorsen led research to defend the role of vaccines in causing autism which is remarkable since he is a psychiatrist not a research scientist or toxicologist. But that did not trouble the CDC located close by Emory in Atlanta who reportedly paid his center $14.6 million to spin out research papers in favor of vaccine injections for children.
PAUL: “Thorsen had falsified documents and was in violation of university rules, because he accepted salaries…”>>
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Lest anyone think Paul Blake can be taken seriously on anything regarding medicine… from his website:
“Disease is not complicated it is actually very simple and the application of common sense techniques can defeat any disease. All germs and viruses are weak and can be defeated easily with cleansing and nutrition. There is only one cancer and it is a disease joke if you know what to do and you are willing to do what it takes to cure your cancer.”
What ignorance.
Probably the best summary of this whole situation was put together by Dr. Harriet Hall (unlike you she’s a real doctor, not a quack):
Vaccines & Autism
A Deadly Manufactroversy
by Harriet Hall, MD, “The SkepDoc”
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-06-03/
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Most of the whoppers about Thorsen were shot down immediately, but this didn’t stop the True Believer anti-vax nut jobs from spreading the lies far and wide. See:
http://www.wellsphere.com/autism-autism-spectrum-article/update-dr-poul-thorsen-not-missing-not-suspected-in-theft/1038453