Shaun Curry/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Mister Wakefield with Wife and Faithful Followers The Denunciation of Dr. Wakefield by Susan Dominus. An article in the April 24th New York Times (The Crash and Burn of an Autism Guru – the online title). So it’s Mister Wakefield now. Better yet Reverend Wakefield given his devoted flock disseminating his debunked vaccine-gut-autism …
So siblings conceived less than a year apart raises the risk of autism for the younger child? Yeah, I know, yet another spacey study (i.e. one with a slight finding) thrust into the national spotlight. Searching for the study online I happened upon The Biology Files, a blog written by Emily Willingham, aka The …
The esteemed British Medical Journal took up the strange and sordid case of Andrew Wakefield, the discredited autism quack whose 1998 study launched the vaccine-autism debacle. Read the piece if you can stomach it. Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent The BMJ editorial accuses the former doc of fraud – …