Dr. Andrew Wakefield MB.BS., is a former academic gastroenterologist. He received his medical degree from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London in 1981, then qualified as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985 and trained as a gastrointestinal surgeon with a particular interest in inflammatory bowel disease. He has published over 150 original scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters.
In 1995, as an academic physician working in a London teaching hospital, he was contacted by the parent of an autistic child with stomach issues. He soon learned from several other parents with autistic behaviors, that their children’s regressive behavior immediately followed an MMR vaccine. He and a team of 12 other authors investigated and reported their findings to The Lancet…that would catapult Wakefield into becoming one of the most controversial figures in the history of Medicine.
The media (and the padlock controlled platform Wikipedia) would have you believe Dr Andrew Wakefield is a discredited doctor and fraudster, their hope is you won’t take the time to investigate for yourself.
The big pharma/medical establishment machine would have you believe that Dr Wakefield et. al. in their 1998 Lancet publication, “falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.”
Did they make a “claim” or did they report their findings which drew them to conclude there is a “possible” link that warranted further investigation? What is the harm in that?
Dr Wakefield’s story has had such a profound affect on the medical science community, that scientists themselves are “scared” of being “Wakefield’ed” should they publish anything even remotely suggestive of a negative impact on “vaccines”!
The Lancet study
“The Lancet study” by Dr Wakefield et al was published February 28, 1998 after peer review and is titled: Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive development disorder in children, you can find it HERE.
In 2010 The Lancet RETRACTED his paper – New York Times REPORTS. By this stage Wakefield’s original finding had been replicated.
The paper’s conclusion mentioned a “possible” link to the MMR vaccine and that was the catalyst to see Dr Wakefield lose his medical license! It threatened the very lucrative vaccine industry. Dr Wakefield, at the time, was supportive of single antigen vaccine, for each virus, but felt the tri-valent, MMR form was the issue:
By May 24, 2010, the General Medical Counsel in the United Kingdom revoked Dr Wakefields license to practice medicine on the grounds of “unprofessional conduct.” [1] The hearing listened to the Sunday Times journalist Brian Deer and excluded the views of hundreds of parents of vaccine damaged children. [2]
The media “smear machine” then went into action. They made such claims that Wakefield is the author of a “faulty study that links vaccines and autism”, or other such generalisation. As much as this is devastating for Wakefield, it’s real job is to send a message to all other research scientists!
Mean while millions of children with autism are experiencing gastro-inflammation!!!
- Listen to Dr Andrew Wakefield’s story – HERE
[ed: According to Dr Theresa Deisher’s work the data supported a change point around 1988, where vaccine manufacture changed from animal to human foetal tissue – WATCH @ 1:09:30]
Every time I listen to Andy he reveals another piece of the puzzle. His story truly is like being caught in a movie!
Movies and Documentaries by Andy Wakefield – licensed to inform!:
- Protocol 7– The Movie about the mumps vaccine coverup (May 31, 2024) – WEBSITE, TRAILER
- Infertility: A Diabolical Agenda – The documentary film (June 10, 2022) – WEBSITE, TRAILER
- 1986 The Act (June 2020) – WEBSITE, TRAILER
- VAXXED: From Cover up to Catastrophe (The CDC Whistleblower story) by Del Bigtree & Andy Wakefield (2016) – WATCH
- 2023? – Vaccines: Their Safety, Effectiveness, and Risks: Ep 8: Post Licensure Vaccine Safety w/ Andrew Wakefield – WATCH, BACKUP
- The Wakefield Case (1998): Where Is The Real Fraud? 2022 documentary (not by Andy) – WATCH
Below is not an exhaustive list of his interviews, but a place to start to get to know a man who is truly a courageous hero in the fight for truth and medical freedom, and seeking to help those who are suffering.
Interviews and information in reverse chronological order
2024
May 30, 2024 – The Highwire Episode 374: PERILOUS PROTOCOLS – FULL, promoting Protocol 7 – EXCERPT
- Protocol 7 The Movie – Released My 31, 2024 – WEB
May 22, 2024 – Alex Jones Show: Protocol 7: A First Look With Director Dr. Andrew Wakefield – WATCH
- These companies [vaccine manufacturers] haven’t just been behaving like this recently [with COVID-19 shots] they’ve been doing this for long time
2023
December 21, 2023 – The Highwire Ep 351 – War of the Words: Andrew Wakefiled on his new film PROTOCOL-7 – WATCH, FULL
August 20, 2023 – Dr Tess Lawrie Substack: Dr Andrew Wakefield was right all along – His research on vaccine harms was “just the beginning”. Was an “ethically challenged man” recruited to keep him quiet? – READ
- “How many useless and poisonous needles have gone into our babies since 1998, and how many of our children could be enjoying optimal health had Wakefield’s work been heeded? We will never know.”
August 11, 2023 – ICIC.law: Dr. Reiner Fuellmich and Dagmar Schoen talk with Dr. Andrew Wakefield – WATCH, READ, German dub – WATCH
July 21, 2023 – Daily Mail – Disgraced ex-doctor and anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield claims he wouldn’t recommend kids get ANY jabs in new podcast, sparking fury among medics – READ
- Incredibly misinformed, misleading article about the history of Dr Wakefield, references interview with Dr Ahmad Malik (see below)
- The articles states “Mr Malik’s fellow medics reacted angrily to Wakefield being given a platform to share his disproven views.” The “expert” doctor claims that Wakefield’s views are linked to children dying of measles in Zimbabwe, a developing country!
- “‘Giving a platform to such harmful misinformation is irresponsible, and particularly reckless at a time when the risk of children in the UK suffering from preventable disability and death from measles is increasing due to falling rates of vaccination.” – yet many measles cases are vaccine strain measles, and the WHO know it i.e. “we’ve shifted the human population to vaccine dependency“.
July 21, 2023 – Doc Malik: Andrew Wakefield The Original “Anti-vaxxer Quack” Or An Ethical Doctor Way Ahead Of His Time? – WATCH, aired Spotify and Apple Podcasts July 21, 2023, More with – Dr Ahmad Malik
…The boogie-man’s name was Andrew Wakefield….I apologies for not looking into your story earlier and understanding what the real situation was. Because frankly I believe I was mislead, and I was a victim of propaganda…
Dr Ahmad Malik
June 26, 2023 – CHD | Good Morning CHD: International Measles Mania With Dr. Andrew Wakefield – WATCH
”The most attacked human being on earth right now is the pregnant mother”
June 19, 2023 – Corageous Discourse | John Leake: [First] Interview with Dr. Andrew Wakefield – A wide ranging discussion about scientific history, immunology, and his thirty-year battle with the vaccine cartel – WATCH & READ
May 23, 2023 – CHD | Good Morning CHD with Michael Kane: The Simpsonwood Scandal With Dr. Andrew Wakefield – WATCH, READ
- The secret Simpsonwood meeting happened 23 years ago – RALLY
- “Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink Information” June 7-8, 2020 – Simpsonwood Retreat Centre, Norcross Georgia – Transcript – PDF, READ
- The leaked transcript from the meeting exposed “the cozy relationship between government and industry and the lengths to which they’d go to hide data from the public about the vaccine-autism connection” – REF
February 27, 2023 – Daily Mail: Autistic son, 32, of anti-vaxxers who was one of the children in disgraced Andrew Wakefield’s MMR vaccine study 25 years ago is ordered to have Covid jab by court in Jersey – READ
- “He was one of the so-called Lancet 12, one of the children with autism who took part in disgraced Andrew Wakefield’s study which was published in the medical journal, falsely claiming that the MMR vaccine caused autism.” – [The Highwire calls out this incorrect statement by Daily Mail – EXCERPT]
2022
2022 – CHD: The Wakefield Case (1998): Where Is The Real Fraud? – A 2022 documentary by Italian investigative filmmaker Massimo Mazzucco – WATCH, WATCH, CREDIT
December 8, 2022 – Unbreaking Science | Dr James Lyons-Weiler: The Sixth Extinction by Dr Andrew Wakefield – WATCH
- In this lecture, Dr. Wakefield describes the problem of the vaccine selection pressure on evolving measles virus populations, and the effect of the vaccination program on the age-shift of the susceptible from the very young primarily now to adults. …This is a lecture from 2021
- Infectious agents, virus and bacteria, have an exquisite ability to adapt in a short space of time, to avoid whatever we try to do to maintain them
- When Wakefield got involved in vaccine safety research 30 years ago there was but a handful of “us” in the world who were prepared to stand up and say there is a problem here…now it’s half the world concerned with vaccine safety and health freedom. [loose quote]
It’s very worrying when man believes that he can exert this dominion over nature
Dr Wakefield
December 1, 2022 – CHD: Imminent Threat — Man-made Measles Mutations with Dr. Andrew Wakefield – WATCH
- ‘These viruses have an extraordinary collective intelligence. They’re going to adapt and survive, they’re going to mutate.
November 28, 2022 – CHD | Tea Time: Measles Hysteria Is Coming w/ Dr. Wakefield and Alli Edwards – WATCH
- An intense conversation about the truth of this disease, their vaccines and injuries from childhood injections. Dr. Wakefield shares with viewers a stark warning: “We have now become susceptible to Measles again because of the vaccine, and there’s nothing we can do about it.”
August 5, 2022 – ‘Good Morning CHD’ Episode 94: Freedom, Censorship, Vaccines + More With Dr. Andrew Wakefield + Dr. Kat Lindley – WATCH, READ, EXCERPT
August 2, 2022 – Mercola: The Truth About the Global Depopulation Agenda- Interview with Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Mary Holland and Dr. Mercola – WATCH
July 2, 2022 – CHD: ‘Friday Roundtable’ Episode 14: Exposing the Fraud with Edward Dowd + Andy Wakefield – From infertility to future lockdowns, digital currency and central control, Monkeypox and more – WATCH
June 21, 2022 – Refuge of Sinners: Beware of False Prophets – An interview with Andrew Wakefield – Comments and links under video – WATCH
- “Our Way or the Highway” – How Parental Choice Was Stripped Away Amid Autism Concerns – EXCERPT
They ran anti-fertility programs under the guise of anti-tetanus programs in developing countries – EXCERPT
June 10, 2022 – Infertility: A Diabolical Agenda – The documentary film premieres June 10, 2022 – WEBSITE, TRAILER
- October 2017 – Researchgate – HCG Found in WHO Tetanus Vaccine in Kenya Raises Concern in the Developing World – READ
June 9, 2022 – Steve Kirsch interviews Andrew Wakefield – The Vaccine Industry and Their Stranglehold on Society: It’s a Rigged System and You Pay the Price – WATCH, BACKUP
- “We Will Never Do That Study” – Why Is the NIH So Unwilling to Do a Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated Study? – EXCERPT
- Seizures on the Very Day of the MMR Vaccine: Tales of Once Normal Children Diagnosed With Autism – EXCERPT
June 6, 2022 – Mel K Show with Brilliant Filmmaker Dr. Andy Wakefield On Shocking Exposure Of The Vaccine Industry – WATCH,
- Andy speaks to Mel on his new film exposing the hidden story of the WHO/BMGF in Africa using an “anti-fertility vaccine disguised as a tetanus vaccine” – EXCERPT
June 4, 2022 – CHD: ‘The Solution’ Episode 29 With Dr. Andrew Wakefield – WATCH
June 3, 2022 – ‘Good Morning CHD’ Episode 45: Dr. Andrew Wakefield Announces NEW Film – looking at the infertility epidemic the WHO has created in Africa – WATCH
February 2, 2022 – ReAwaken America Tour Episode 83: Andy Wakefield & Lori Gregory – LISTEN
2021
November 22, 2021 – CHD | Tea Time Ep 10: Measles Science With Andy Wakefield + Navigating Thanksgiving – WATCH
September 27, 2021 – CHD | Tea Time Ep 2: No Vaccine, No Job? With Andy Wakefield + Michael Hart – WATCH
September 2, 2021 – Episode 350: The Ripple Effect Podcast (Dr. Andy Wakefield | Exposing Medical & Media Propaganda) – LISTEN
July 27, 2021 – Stew Peters Show – Dr. Andy Wakefield, “Tony Fauci Should Be Held Up For Treason” – Eye-Popping Interview – WATCH
- Wakefield revealed that the COVID ‘vaccine’ has killed more people than all other vaccines COMBINED since tracking began.
March 25, 2021 – The Highwire Ep 208 – In The Hot Seat – interview with Dr Wakefield re Geert Vanden Bossche potentially being Wakefield’ed – WATCH @1:47:40
March 12, 2021 – Dr Sherri Tenpenny interview Dr Andrew Wakefield – WATCH
- “One of the most controversial misrepresented figures of recent times, Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been maligned by Wikipedia, the press, science journals and every other mainstream outlet you can mention. Andy is a physician, an author, a filmmaker and a dear friend. Join us as we have a conversation about COVID, viruses, and his unique perspective on current affairs.”
March 2021 – Dr. Ardis: Andy Wakefield: His plea to mothers…”trust your intuition!” – from pharmaceuticals to COVID – WATCH
February 11, 2021 ? – Frequency Wars with Tim Ray: Dissecting the vaccine with Dr Andy Wakefield – vaccine or not a vaccine? – WATCH
2020
December 9, 2020 – Thrivetime Show: Discovering the Terrifying Truth About COVID-19 – The seven sinister aspects of the COVID-19 vaccines w/ Andrew Wakefiled – WATCH
- “Mindblowing”, “The most important podcast you’ll ever hear”…”students are taught in medical school not to listen to this guy”…
December 5, 2020 – Health Ranger Report: Andy Wakefield warns humanity about the coming wave of coronavirus vaccines – WATCH
December 4 2020 – Thrivetime Show: Former British Physician Turned Filmmaker Shares About His New Film 1986: The Act – WATCH
July 16, 2020 – The Highwire Ep 172: Dr Wakefield released his documentary movie – 1986 The Act – TRAILER, WATCH, ARCHIVE
June 24, 2020 – London Real: Dr. Andrew Wakefield – 1986 The Act: What The Government Don’t Want You To Know About Mandatory Vaccines (free to sign and watch) – WATCH
2019
August 22, 2019 – The Highwire Ep 125 – WAKEFIELD’S WARNING: “MEASLES IS MUTATING” – WATCH @31min
- “Wakefield illustrated how industry is aware of this ticking time-bomb yet still pushes an increasingly ineffective MMR vaccine while blaming ‘anti-vaxxers’ as a scapegoat for outbreaks, even among the vaccinated.” – READ
2018
May 10, 2018 – The Highwire Ep 58 – Dr Andy Wakefield vs Brian Deer: The Real Fraud Revealed – WATCH, YouTube
Re-Aired December 27, 2018 – Ep 91 – WATCH
- Shocking new information, & candid admissions, reveal the real fraud in the case of Andrew Wakefield. Hear what Andrew has to say about vaccines and his journey.
- For context here is an example of a “fact check” article from Health Feedback stating “Investigative reporter Brian Deer later blew the whistle on Wakefield’s study, exposing its numerous flaws that essentially invalidated the study’s claims in a 2004 report in The Sunday Times” – READ
April 26, 2018 – The Highwire Ep 56 – YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR CHILDREN – UC Davis finding are exactly what started Dr Wakefield on his journey – inflammatory gut disease appears to be linked to autistic behaviour – WATCH @11min, Link to the UC Davis article April 17, 2018 – ARCHIVE
2017
January 4, 2017 – The Richie Allen Show: “Vaxxed” Director Andy Wakefield: “Donald Trump Told Me That He Believes Vaccines Cause Injuries.” – ARCHIVE
- website callous-disregard.com: Autism and Vaccines – The Truth behind a Tragedy – ARCHIVE
2016
July 3, 2016 – Andrew Wakefield’s Speech at 2nd Annual Health Freedom Rally Santa Monica – ARCHIVE, YouTube
April 19, 2016 – Alex Jones InfoWars: Bombshell: Top CDC Whistle Blower: We Were Ordered to Cover Up Vaccine-Autism Link – ARCHIVE
- Dr. Andrew Wakefield breaks down the Tribeca Film Festival incident with the movie he directed with Del Bigtree:
April 1, 2016 – AXXED: From Coverup to Catastrophe – MOVIE, directed by Andy Wakefield, premiered – READ, Official WEBSITE, Press Releases – HERE
March 27, 2016 – VAXXED: the ABC News interview that Big Pharma didn’t want you to see – (The ABC interview Del Bigtree 2 hours before he found out the movie was to be pulled from the tribeca film festival, you will see the ABC coverage, followed by the uncut full interview with Del Bigtree) – WATCH,
- In The Highwire pilot Del and his wife Lee provide context for this footage of the ABC interview – WATCH
2016 – Homeoprophylasis Confernce | A Worldwide Choice for Disease Prevention – presentation by Dr Andrew Wakefield on vaccination mandates – ARCHIVE
2015
December 26, 2015 (or 2011?) – Independent Media Source | Studies in Propaganda: ‘Murder in the First! A History of Vaccines‘ presentation by Sydney White Studies in Propaganda 2011 at the Free University of Toronto – ARCHIVE
December 2, 2015 – Wellness Way Clinics: Leadership & Longevity Conference: CDC Whistleblower, Autism & Mandatory Vaccination presentation by Dr. Andrew Wakefield – ARCHIVE
2014
August 28, 2014 – Next News Network: Dr. Andrew Wakefield breaks silence on #CDCWhistleblower – WATCH, ARCHIVE
July 8, 2014 – Autism One: The Legacy of Vaccine Injury presesntation by Dr. Andrew Wakefield – ARCHIVE
- At the link above see more videos featuring Dr Wakefield that YouTube have deleted
2013
April 27, 2013 – The Other Side Of The Dr. Andrew Wakefield Story: What The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You -Big Pharma Vilified Researcher for Threatening Vaccine Program By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. via Alex Jones – ARCHIVE
April 20, 2013 – The Guardian: Totally untrue facts about Andrew Wakefield – Due to the current measles outbreak in Swansea, Andrew Wakefield is getting undue attention again. Andrew Wakefield is known for spreading information which turned out to be wrong, so one possible response would be to spread wrong information about him – READ
- “Arguably worse still is when the person originally responsible for the whole MMR scare, Andrew Wakefield, uses the outbreak to bafflingly argue that he was right all along.”
April 2013 – WHO: What are some of the myths – and facts – about vaccination? – ARCHIVE, same 2019 – ARCHIVE
- Wakefield’s paper made it onto WHO website. Note: There is “no evidence” because they refuse to do the work to gather the evidence.
2012
July 21, 2012 – Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Andrew Wakefield on His MMR Study – ARCHIVE
- Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. Andrew Wakefield talks about autism, childhood vaccine safety, and his controversial MMR study”
2011
February 5, 2011 – Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s rebuttal to Brian Deer‘s article in the BMJ – WATCH, OTHER
July 13, 2011 – Book: Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines–The Truth Behind a Tragedy by Andrew Wakefield – READ
January 11, 2011 – BMJ |Secrets of the MMR scare: How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money by Brian Deer – READ
January 6, 2011 – “The British Medical Journal published a report showing that of the 12 children included in Wakefield’s 1995 study, at most two had autistic symptoms post vaccination, rather than the eight he claimed.” – REF
2010
May 24, 2010 – UK General Medical Counsel revoked Dr Wakefield’s license practice medicine on the grounds of “unprofessional conduct.” [1], BMJ: Wakefield is struck off for the “serious and wide-ranging findings against him” – READ
May 24, 2010 – General Medical Council | Fitness to Practice Panel: Determination on serious professional misconduct (SPM) and sanction; Dr Andrew Jeremy Wakefield – PDF,
April 2, 2010 – Alan Golding interview with Dr Andrew Wakefield, discussing the General Medical Council’s hearing – READ (videos excerpts embeded), Full Interview WATCH, EXCERPT
March 9, 2010 – CMAJ: Lancet retracts 12-year-old article linking autism to MMR vaccines – READ
- “In a statement published on Feb. 2, the British medical journal said that it is now clear that “several elements” of a 1998 paper it published by Dr. Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues (Lancet 1998;351[9103]:637–41) “are incorrect, contrary to the findings of an earlier investigation.”
- The “Britain’s General Medical Council ruled in January [2010], the children that Wakefield studied were carefully selected and some of Wakefield’s research was funded by lawyers acting for parents who were involved in lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers. The council found Wake-field had acted unethically and had shown “callous disregard” for the children in his study, upon whom invasive tests were performed.”
March 2010 – Nature Medicine: State of denial by Scudellari – READ, PDF
February 6, 2010 – BMJ News: Lancet retracts MMR paper after GMC finds Andrew Wakefield guilty of dishonesty – PDF
- “Following the judgment of the UK General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel on Jan 28, 2010, it has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield et al are incorrect, contrary to the findings of an earlier investigation.”
January 28, 2010 – The Guardian: Andrew Wakefield found ‘irresponsible’ by GMC [General Medical Council] over MMR vaccine scare – Doctor’s research triggered a furore and was direct cause of slump in take-up of MMR, which has led to outbreaks of measles in some parts of the country [hit piece example] – READ, ARCHIVE
- “Branding him a dishonest, irresponsible doctor, the GMC disciplinary panel, which has sat and heard evidence for 148 days over two and a half years, finally found a long array of charges against him proven. But there were shouts of protest and dismay from the doctor’s supporters.
- Wakefield and two [initially 3] other doctors at the Royal Free hospital in London were brought before the GMC over the paper they published in February 1998 in the Lancet medical journal.”
- “That the GMC has found Wakefield guilty of unapproved and unnecessary invasive tests, including spinal taps, on young children, is the most damning indictment possible. The findings of failure to declare financial interest are a secondary consideration.”
- “But investigations revealed more. In June 1997, before the paper was published, he filed a patent as one of the inventors of a vaccine for the elimination of measles virus and for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.”
- “In February 1998, the same month as the Lancet paper, he applied for ethical permission to run a trial of a new potential measles vaccine and set up a company called Immunospecifics Biotechnologies Ltd which would produce and sell it.”
January 28, 2010 – GMC: FITNESS TO PRACTISE PANEL HEARING charge sheet – PDF, began On 16 July 2007
2009
February 3, 2009 – Guardian: James Murdoch takes GlaxoSmithKline role – “appointed a non-executive director at the pharmaceutical giant” – READ, GSK make the MMR vaccine [Dr Wakefield mentioned Murdoch and GSK in this 2023 INTERVIEW]
- July 19, 2011 – Guardian: James Murdoch and GlaxoSmithKline – James Murdoch joined the GSK board in 2009, with the Chairman delighted by his record in corporate responsibility, but anti-vaccine groups are less impressed – READ, ARCHIVE An attempt to rebut Age of Autism – READ,
- “Within a fortnight of [James Murdoch‘s] appointment [in 2009] News International had published at least 5 articles attacking MMR researcher Andrew Wakefield’s integrity“
- “The Sunday Times campaign against Wakefield began in 2003” – in a publication owned by Rupert Murdoch at the time – WIKI
- [Murdochs are invested in vaccine research for children – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute – Elizabeth Hart reports – HERE]
- [note the Guardian’s deflection attempt “Right. So it turns out we can add precognition to James Murdoch’s list of achievements.”]
2008
December 22, 2008 Age of Autism: Smoke and Mirrors: Dr Richard Horton and the Wakefield Affair – READ, conflicts of interest from investigating parties?
2007
August 20, 2007 – UK General Medical Council (GMC) Press Release: Fitness to Practise Panels week commencing 20 August 2007 – investigation underway (see Jan 29, 2010 for conclusion) – ARCHIVE, Schedule – ARCHIVE
- Freelance journalist Brian Deer presented a raft of allegations about the conduct of the study, and unethical procedures conducted against the children in the study. These were rebutted by the doctors, and were neither upheld by the Royal Free or in turn the Lancet. – Age of Autism – REF
- “The sticking point, however, came over the fact that Wakefield, alone… had been hired by the Legal Aid Board to investigate the possibility of class litigation against the MMR manufacturers. Confronted by Deer, Horton denied that he had known of this, and Deer at last had a story.”
July 14, 2007 – BMJ: GMC hearing against Wakefield and colleagues opens Owen Dyer- READ
2004
November 18, 2004 – A Dispatches Investigation: “MMR [What they didn’t tell you]” – a film by Brian Deer on Andrew Wakefield – WATCH, ARCHIVE (What you are meant to know about Dr Wakefield!) note “Comments are turned off.”
- “It started with fear. Fear spread by a doctor. Fear of a vaccine given routinely to children, brought willingly by their parents for protection.” the opening words from Brian Deer
September 30, 2004 – BOOK: MMR Science and Fiction: Exploring the Vaccine Crisis by Richard Horton – READ, CREDIT
March 6, 2004 – The Lancet | Statement: A statement by The Royal Free and University College Medical School and The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, by Prof Humphrey Hodgson – READ
- “We are entirely satisfied that the investigations performed on the children reported in the Lancet paper had been subjected to appropriate and rigorous ethical scrutiny.”
March 6, 2004 – The Lancet | Statement: A statement by the editors of The Lancet by Richard Horton, Editor or The Lancet – READ THE ALLEGATIONS, UK good publication guidelines COPE 1999 – ARCHIVE,
- “On February 18, 2004, serious allegations of research misconduct concerning an article by Dr Andrew Wakefield and colleagues published in The Lancet in February, 1998, were brought to the attention of senior editorial staff of the journal….” Lists the 6 allegations.
- “In 1998, The Lancet required that: “The Editor needs to be informed [of any conflicts of interest] and will discuss with you [the authors] whether or not disclosure in the journal is necessary. All sources of funding must be disclosed, as an acknowledgment in the text.””
- Allegation 6) “That Dr Wakefield received £55000 from the Legal Aid Board to conduct this pilot project and that, since there was a substantial overlap of children in both the Legal Aid Board funded pilot project and the Lancet paper, this was a financial conflict of interest that should have been declared to the editors and was not”
- March 6, 2004 – The lessons of MMR by Horton “Future strategic themes in autism research” – READ, ARCHIVE
February 23, 2004 – Richard Horton conspires to get Wakefield. As noted in his Sep 2004 book, Horton recalls attends a dinner where he discusses Wakefield’s case with a “medical regulator” who “seemed unsure of how the [General Medical ] Council could play a useful part in resolving the confusion….He seemed keen to pursue Wakefield, especially given ministerial interest.” – REF Misconduct?? GMC deny knowledge
February 22, 2004 [Sunday!] – The Sunday Times by Brian Deer: REVEALED: MMR research scandal – Sunday Times investigation exposes scientist’s “fatal” conflict of interest – ARCHIVE, ARCHIVE2
- After his 4 month “investigation” he “uncovered a medical scandal at the heart of the worldwide scare over MMR”, which would date back to approx October 2003 – REF, which happens to coincide with the MMR debate with Wakefield and original co-author Murch – READ
- “Wakefield was the lead author of the report. He wrote that the parents of eight of the 12 children blamed MMR: they said symptoms of autism had set in within days of vaccination. The Sunday Times has now established that four, probably five, of these children were covered by the legal aid study. And Wakefield himself had been awarded up to £55,000 to assist their case by finding scientific evidence of the link.”…”Wakefield did not tell his colleagues or medical authorities of this conflict of interest either during or after the research….”
- Rupert Murdoch owned The Sunday Times – Deer wrote on his website “February 2004 the Lancet medical journal admitted it should never have published a research paper which caused a worldwide scare by linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine with autism” – ARCHIVE, Prior to this article Deer had minimal articles on his website since 2002 – ARCHIVES
February 20, 2004- – Lancet Editor Horton went public to BBC, he “anticipated the publication of Deer’s article in the Sunday Times (and comically led to him being sued by Deer in the small claims court)”,… “by the following morning [Horton] had also told the BBC that there was “a fatal conflict of interest” [re Wakefield] and the research was “fatally flawed”.” – REF
- By Saturday [21st Feb], tea time, the Secretary of State for Health, John Reid, had requested that the General Medical Council investigate the case “as a matter of urgency”. And all before Deer’s story had gone to press for Sunday morning.”
February 18, 2004 – At an extraordinary meeting at the Lancet offices was called by Richard Horton, Editor of the Lancet – REF,
- “On February 18, 2004, serious allegations of research misconduct concerning an article by Dr Andrew Wakefield and colleagues published in The Lancet in February, 1998, were brought to the attention of senior editorial staff of the journal….” – REF
February 14, 2004 – The Lancet | Correspondence: MMR and autism: the debate continues by Penelope Elphinstone – READ, see Oct 1, 2003!
2003
November 8, 2003 – BMJ: Researcher from study alleging link between MMR and autism warns of measles epidemic – READ
November 6, 2003 – The Guardian: A further dose of MMR – READ, ARCHIVE
- “The MMR debate (Epidemic fear, October 31) comes down to one thing: the medical establishment’s ideological belief in the MMR jab in particular, and vaccines in general. If it weren’t for that basic bias, the “experts” would be more willing to entertain the notion that the temporal association between the MMR jab and autism/bowel disease is more than “an unhappy coincidence”….”
- “Parents have found out, via the internet and US congressional hearings, that they have not been alone in observing a link between the MMR jab and subsequent behavioural and language problems in their children”…and…”they have found there has been a reluctance on the part of their paediatricians to report such observations”…”If cases are not reported, there is no record of them.”
- “Vaccines have far more side effects than the medical establishment admits, for fear of jeopardising their goal of “herd immunity”. [they assume vaccines stop transmission, how do they explain vaccine strain measles spreading?]
Andrew Wakefield’s views are weird but harmless, if ignored. Your publicising them is a threat to public health: children will get ill, and some may die or suffer terrible brain damage.
Prof Peter Green, Professor of statistics, Bristol University
November 1, 2003 – The Guardian: Doctors turn on each other as MMR debate rages again – READ
His [Murch] laboratory is under threat. He has failed to gain due promotion. He has been strongly advised to withdraw from scientific publications that involve any mention of my name or association with MMR and bowel disease.
Dr Andrew Wakefield on Radio 4, responding to Simon Murch’s Lancet correspondence claims
- Dr Wakefield accused “the hierarchy of the Royal Free and the medical school” of creating the pressure.
- “The school believes that Dr Murch’s rejection of any association between MMR and autism is his considered professional judgement [opinion] as a paediatrician and a researcher,”
November 1, 2003 – The Lancet | Correspondence Volume 362, ISSUE 9394, P1498-1499: Separating inflammation from speculation in autism by Simon Murch – READ Simon Murch was a gastroenterologists at the Royal Free medical school in London with Wakefield, and joint author on original 1998 paper.
- At a time when MMR vaccination rates were “low” at 61% in some parts of London, Murch states “…subsequent studies [i.e.Oct 2002 paper] have lent support to and extended the gastrointestinal findings associated with autism noted in” the original Feb 1998 paper jointly authored with Wakefield…”the same is not true for any link with MMR” Murch states, based on “many epidemiological studies have been undertaken, the results of which indicate no causal relation”. [The statement that sparks no link to autism]
October 31, 2003 – The Guardian: Epidemic fear in MMR boycott – READ, ARCHIVE
- Re letter to the Lancet journal by Simon Murch [published Nov 1] who says parents are placing their children in danger as a measles outbreak is immenent! Article states “the original research in 1998 suggesting there could be a link between autism, problems in the gut and measles virus”
- “…although there is now more evidence of the association between inflammation of the gut and autism, the link to the MMR (measles mumps and rubella) jab has never been proved.”
- Dr Murch stood “with fellow gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield at the press conference to launch the paper in 1998 which made headlines around the world, and led to mass anxiety in parents.”
- “All the doctors involved backed the safety of the MMR at the time, but Dr Wakefield voiced a personal opinion that the jabs might be better given separately. Dr Wakefield has continued to investigate possible links with measles virus and has left the Royal Free for the United States
October 1, 2003 – UK Legal Services Commission PRESS RELEASE: Decision to REMOVE FUNDING for MMR LITIGATION is upheld on appeal – ARCHIVE, CREDIT , LSC provides legal aid for Multi-Party Actions
- “Many autistic children in the UK have been granted legal aid to sue pharmaceutical defendants, alleging that their disorder was caused by MMR. There has never been published evidence linking MMR and autism; funding was granted to enable the claimants to generate scientific evidence to prove their case. After spending £15 million (US$26 million), the Legal Services Commission (LSC) withdrew funding because the litigation was “very likely to fail” and that the trial was “very unlikely to succeed” – Lancet correspondence REF
May 29, 2003 – BMJ: World Medical Association reviews doctors’ links with drug companies by Susan Mayor – READ
- “The guidelines, discussed at a recent meeting of the association, acknowledge the complex nature of the relationship between doctors and industry” and potential Conflicts of Interest – [curious timing, can’t find guideline document]
- April 24, 2003 – WMA Press Release: Newark, N.J., Forum Focuses on Medical, Pharmaceutical Ethics – The ‘Grand Bargain’ conference – READ
- “Do you do what is right for the individual or do you do what is right for society?” According to the Declaration of Helenski, what’s good for the individual should take precedence over science,”
2002
October 2002 – Pediatrics jorunal: Gastroenterology and nutrition Autistic disorder and gastrointestinal disease – Horvath & Perman – READ [paper supporting Wakefields finding, and referenced by Murch – HERE]
2001
December 2, 2021 – The UK Observer: Critic of MMR jabs ‘forced out’ of job – ARCHIVE
- Professor Andrew Wakefield…left his post as an academic at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in London on Friday [Nov 30, 2001].
- “Wakefield has infuriated Ministers by insisting that the three elements of the vaccine should be administered separately to children.” Public Health Laboratory Service have derided his work and “insist the policy of giving the MMR vaccine to children aged 13 months, and again when they reach four years, is safe.”
I have been asked to go because my research results are unpopular…I did not wish to leave but I have agreed to stand down in the hope that my going will take the political pressure off my colleagues and allow them to get on with the job of looking after the many sick children we have seen.
Dr Andrew Wakefield
2000
April 22, 2000 – The Lancet | Editorial Volume 355, Number 9213: Measles, MMR, and autism: the confusion continues – (no author) – READ, PDF, ARCHIVE
- “The WHO estimated the number of measles cases for 1998 as 30 million worldwide with 888,000 measles-related deaths. In developing countries about 10% of all deaths in children under 5 years are measles related. Sad figures considering that measles has been a vaccine-preventable disease for more than three decades. In 1990, the World Summit for Children adopted a goal of vaccinating 90% of children by 2000;”…more stats quoted for measles
- “A huge blow to the efforts of measles eradication was dealt when 2 years ago, at a press conference, Andrew Wakefield …argued that because of uncertainty about its safety, the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine should be withdrawn and the components given separately.…” [thus Wakefield never said don’t vaccinate]
- On April 3, [2000] a report from a subgroup of the British Medical Research Council, led by Alan McGregor of King’s College London, concluded that “between March, 1998, and September, 1999, there had been no new evidence to suggest a causal link between MMR and inflammatory bowel disease/autism”. [no reference, can’t find source, and why that short window]
- [A reply to this editorial claims – “Last September [1999], the High Court stated that “no positive link has ever been established” [between MMR vaccine to autism] – Penelope Elphinstone states but does not provide source – REF, PDF, [I can not find source for high court statement]…she alleges the unsubstantiated health scare (funded by the Legal Services Commission) endangers children and enriches lawyers.” states Elphinstone – ARCHIVE]
April 6, 2000 – US Senate’s congressional oversight committee, Chaired by Sen. Dan Burton – Dr Wakefield and John O’Leary, director of pathology at Coombe Women’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, gave testimony – REF, CREDIT
- Wakefield’s testified to have now studied more than 150 children with “autistic enterocolitis”
1999
June 11, 1999 – World Health Organisation: Vaccine safety Hot Topics – MMR & Autism – ARCHIVE
- Q&A prepared by the Royal Free and University College Medical School for 11 June 1999 in response to the publication of an article in the Lancet* – MMR – Autism – ARCHIVE
- “Autism appears to have been increasing steadily since 1979 until 1992, probably due to better diagnosis, but there was no sudden increase or change in this trend at or after the introduction of MMR”
- “Dr Wakefield and colleagues published a research paper in 1998, which led some to hypothesise that there might be a causal link between MMR vaccine and autism”…”Dr Wakefield and his colleagues never actually said that MMR caused autism“…
- “This testing of hypotheses occurs all the time in science and …is an important way of obtaining new information”
- *June 11, 1999 – The Lancet: Autism and measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine: no epidemiological evidence for a causal association – Prof Brent Taylor et al from Royal Free and University College Medical School – READ
March 28, 1999 – The Sunday Times (London): The Best Writers – Brian Deer wins 1999 British Press Award for “Specialist Reporter of the Year” – READ, IMAGE,
- “Brian Deer of The Sunday Times, was named Specialist Report of the Year in the British Press Awards last week. The judges were impressed with his investigations into the field of medicine, saying he was probaby “the only journalist in Britain that polices the drugs companies”. Deer’s award-winning articles, in The Sunday Times Magazine, ranged from vaccine-damaged children [DTP?] to the hidden side effects of Viagra”
1998
November 1, 1998 – The Sunday Times: DTP/DPT: THE VANISHING VICTIMS – Can whooping cough jabs cause brain damage in children? by Brian Deer – ARCHIVE [a few months later he wins an award….curious]
- “On Friday, October 26, 1973, Dr John Wilson, paediatric neurologist, stepped to the front of the London lecture theatre of the Royal Society of Medicine. For the past couple of hours he had been crammed among 50 professors, consultants and other specialists, listening to research and discussion papers about children’s convulsive disorders….” Was this the prelude to THE 1986 ACT?
- “The government would not give money away if the vaccine did no harm. Since 1978, 891 awards had been made (mostly £10,000) and she had just got a letter saying that ministers were reviewing the size of future grants. That was 891 of the quarter-million British children who, for various reasons, were brain damaged in the last 25 years.”
- “…by 1988 [Wilson] was having to admit that in eight of his original 36 cases there was no link whatever between the vaccine and subsequent brain damage, in 15 cases there was a reasonable alternative cause, and in only 12 cases did he stand by his original report.” [hmmm]
May 2, 1998 – The Lancet | Correspondence: Autism, inflammatory bowel disease, and MMR vaccine – DR Walker – READ [example]
- “The controversy surrounding the paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues (Feb 28, p 637)
seems to stem from the inclusion of two ideas in one paper. That autism may be linked to a form of inflammatory bowel disease is a new idea worthy of discussion, and The Lancet was correct in its decision to publish this. The reply of Simon Murch and colleagues (March 21, p 908) to criticism of their paper emphasises the importance of this part of the work, a message lost in the media reporting.” - “The second idea was the unsubstantiated reporting of an association between this new syndrome and measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine. This anecdotal reporting of a biased sample is poor science and has no place in a peer-reviewed journal. [Does he suggest case studies have no place in peer-reviewed journals??? The parents came to Wakefield’s team, they didn’t go looking for them]
March 21, 1998 – The Lancet | Correspondence |Volume 351, ISSUE 9106, P908: Autism, inflammatory bowel disease, and MMR vaccine – A J Wakefield (reply) – PDF
- “Our publication in The Lancet and the ensuing reaction throws into sharp relief the rift that can exist between clinical medicine and public health.”
- “The approach of the clinical scientists should reflect the first and most important lesson learnt as a medical student—to listen to the patient or the patient’s parent, and they will tell you the answer. Accordingly, we have now investigated 48 children with developmental disorder in whom the parents said “my child has a problem with his/her bowels which I believe is related to their autism”. Hitherto, this claim had been rejected by health professionals with little or no attempt to investigate the problem.” [Public health let the parents down, Wakefield’s team stepped in to investigate…upon history taking the triplet vaccine happened to be a consistent factor associated with the children’s gut issues] …”The parents were right. They have helped us to identify a new inflammatory bowel disease that seems to be associated with their child’s developmental disorder“…
- “In many cases, the parents associated onset of behavioural symptoms in their child with MMR vaccine. Were we to ignore this because it challenged the public health dogma on MMR vaccine safety?”
March 21, 1998 – The Lancet | Correspondence |Volume 351, ISSUE 9106, P908: Autism, inflammatory bowel disease, and MMR vaccine – Simon Murch, Mike Thomson, John Walker-Smith (reply) – READ
- “We welcome the response from Keith Lindley and Peter Milla, as we too had been concerned that the main thrust of the report—the detection of a consistent pattern of mucosal abnormality in children within the autistic spectrum—had been rather lost in the emotionally charged debate about a potential role for MMR vaccine in its pathogenesis. Their points about the absence of hard data supporting the link with MMR were made …within the paper,…” [thus Brian Deer had to find other reasons to attack the paper]
March 21, 1998 – The Lancet | Correspondence Volume 351, ISSUE 9106, P907-908: Autism, inflammatory bowel disease, and MMR vaccine – Lindley and Milla [START] – READ
- The study “is interesting, yet the structure of the study with biased case ascertainment and no suitable controls makes the findings no more than anecdotal.”
February 28, 1998 – Th Lancet | Volume 351, Issue 9103, Pages 637-641: Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children (now retracted) – by A J Wakefield , S H Murch, A Anthony, J Linnell, D M Casson, M Malik, M Berelowitz, A P Dhillon, M A Thomson, P Harvey, A Valentine, S E Davies, J A Walker-Smith – READ, ARCHIVE , The Highwire comment – EXCERPT
- “12 children (mean age 6 years [range 3—10], 11 boys) were referred to a paediatric gastroenterology unit with a history of normal development followed by loss of acquired skills, including language, together with diarrhoea and abdominal pain. Children underwent gastroenterological, neurological, and developmental assessment and review of developmental records….”
- “We have identified a chronic enterocolitis in children that may be related to neuropsychiatric dysfunction. In most cases, onset of symptoms was after measles, mumps, and rubella immunisation. Further investigations are needed to examine this syndrome and its possible relation to this vaccine.”
February 27, 1998 – WHO: Autism and measles containing vaccines how the press reported it – ARCHIVE, SOURCE
- Dr Wakefield and his colleagues never actually said that MMR caused autism, but following the paper some people hypothesised that there might be such a link. …”
1997
June 5, 1997 Patent Great Britain GB9812056D0 : Pharmaceutical composition for treatment of ibd and rbd – Application filed by Neuroimmuno Therapeutics Research Foundation and Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (since withdrawn) – READ,
Application GBGB9711663.6A – Pharmaceutical composition containing transfer factor for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease and regressive behavioural disorder – inventor Wakefield & Fundenburg – READ [It mentions treatment of MMR-virus-mediated disease.] (withdrawn after March 2000)
- GMC charge sheet stated ” The invention which was the subject of the patent, and of which you were one of the inventors, related to a new vaccine for the elimination of MMR and measles virus and to a pharmaceutical or therapeutic composition for the treatment of IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease); particularly Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis and regressive behavioural disease (RBD);” – PDF
1995
April 29, 1995 – The Lancet: Is measles vaccination a risk factor for inflammatory bowel disease? – Thompson, Wakefield et al – READ
- In view of the rising incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis), we examined the impact of measles vaccination upon these conditions.” Comparing vacccinated v unvaccinated cohort “These findings suggest that measles virus may play a part in the development not only of Crohn’s disease but also of ulcerative colitis.”
March 28, 1995 – Patent WO1996030544A1: Diagnostic and therapeutic system for crohn’s disease and colitia ulcerosa – Filed by/Inventor: Andrew Jeremy Wakefield – READ, date reference – HERE
UK patent application 2300259A ( Patent filed by Wakefield) – “Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis may be diagnosed by detecting measles virus in bowel tissue, bowel products or body fluids,” , Publication date 30 October 1996. – Brian Deer – REF
- “No such diagnostic system is currently available” [for CD or UC]…The applicant has now shown that the causative agent for Crohn’s Disease is the measles virus and accordingly the present invention utilises this finding to provide a diagnostic system for the location of a measles virus in bowel tissue, bowel products or in suitable body fluids such as blood or lymph…The invention also provides the basis for an anti-viral therapeutic system for the measles virus.”
- “The invention also comprises a measles virus- specific nucleic acid based vaccine genome encoded into an expression system adapted to induce a specific immune response to the measles virus and/or its component antigens….” …Using antisense RNA to the viral RNA including messenger RNA for the treatment of measles associated diseases alleviates the problem of side effects on host cellular functions.”
- Claim 23 “A measles vaccine comprising part or all of the measles virus genome encoded into an expression system adapted to induce a specific immune response to the measles virus and/or its component protein antigens.”
1993
April 1993 – J. Medical Virology: Evidence of persistent measles virus infection in Crohn’s disease by Wakefield et al – READ
