Wakefield, distortion and the Sunday Times
The journalist Brian Deer has done as much as anyone to investigate the background to what Ben Goldacre describes as the MMR Hoax. In the course of his investigations he discovered undisclosed...
View ArticleWakefield’s false claims backfire
Last week Andrew Wakefield announced to the world that the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) had ordered the Sunday Times to take down some articles about him from its website. Wakefield suggested that...
View ArticleBrian Deer’s original 2004 Channel 4 report on Andrew Wakefield: MMR: What...
When Andrew Wakefield presented his hypothesis linking autism to the MMR vaccine in 2014 1998, he fueled a vaccine scare that is still alive today. It wasn’t until 6 years later that specifics about...
View ArticleRetracted: Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young...
About two months ago an autism parent published a study: a “reanalysis” of a CDC dataset. That study: Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young african american boys: a reanalysis...
View ArticleA look at the analysis plan for DeStefano’s MMR study: no evidence of fraud
Andrew Wakefield and Brian Hooker have been making claims that the CDC are involved in misconduct in autism research. In case you haven’t followed the story, it basically goes like this: 1) the CDC...
View ArticleAndrew Wakefield: paid $316k to administer $80k in grants by the Strategic...
When Andrew Wakefield left Thoughtful House (which has since changed it’s name and removed all mention of him from their website), he announced a new effort: the Strategic Autism Initiative. He was...
View ArticleAndrew Wakefield’s CDC Whistleblower documentary trailer. Words can not do...
Andrew Wakefield, the British former academic surgeon who fueled the MMR scare, has turned to film making as his career. Someone chose Mr. Wakefield to manage the publicity for what they termed the...
View ArticleNational Geographic, “The War on Science”, includes discussion of vaccines...
I just got my copy of the March 2015 issue of National Geographic a couple of days ago. Imagine my reaction when I saw this cover (click to enlarge): In case you are having trouble imagining my...
View ArticleIs Andrew Wakefield’s Strategic Autism Initiative failing?
When Andrew Wakefield left Thoughtful House he set up a charity, the Strategic Autism Initiative. Interestingly even now, years after it was founded, it appears to have no website or Facebook page....
View ArticleD.A.I.R. Foundation 2013 tax form, about $100k in revenue, $20k in program...
A few years back Andrew Wakefield decided to sue the BMJ and Brian Deer. This followed a series of articles and public statements that Mr. Wakefield’s work was an “elaborate fraud” and Mr. Wakefield...
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