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Unbelievable...

Jan. 13th, 2011 at 5:47 PM
med_cat: (H&W what?)

From Medscape Medical News > Neurology

Investigator Planned to Make Vast Profit From Autism/MMR Vaccine Scare, BMJ Says

Deborah Brauser

January 13, 2011 — Andrew Wakefield, the lead author on the 1998 study that reported a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and a new condition of regressive autism and bowel disease called autistic enterocolitis (AE), was planning to market a prestudy diagnostic testing kit with expected yearly sales of 28 million pounds (43 million US dollars), a new paper published online January 11 in the BMJ reports.

In the second of a series of 3 investigative articles examining the MMR vaccine scare, UK journalist Brian Deer reports that Mr. Wakefield planned several businesses to develop not only the new test but also immunotherapeutics and a "safer single measles shot" — which he held a patent for. Mr. Deer writes that these would only be successful if public confidence in the MMR vaccine was damaged.

Read the rest of article here: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/735721

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[identity profile] wirral-bagpuss.livejournal.com
Jan. 13th, 2011 10:58 pm (UTC)
I remember this happening here in the UK and it was headline news for some weeks. A case of greed over medical ethics. Dr McCoy and Dr Watson would have sacked him at once!
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[personal profile] med_cat
Jan. 13th, 2011 11:02 pm (UTC)
Sacked? Oh I hope he gets more than that; I hope all his licenses are stripped, certifications revoked, and he gets a stiff fine!
[identity profile] petrusplancius.livejournal.com
Jan. 13th, 2011 11:11 pm (UTC)
Did nobody realize up until now that he had a financial interest in this? It should have been obvious enough unless he was deliberately concealing it, in which case he may well have been acting illegally.
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[personal profile] med_cat
Jan. 13th, 2011 11:12 pm (UTC)
Oh as you can see in the rest of the article (Medscape requires registration, but it's free and quick), some people knew but they kept silent...
[identity profile] petrusplancius.livejournal.com
Jan. 13th, 2011 11:17 pm (UTC)
Oh I'll register then, you sometimes post some interesting looking things from there. I like the seasonal looking picture at the top of the page; it's all turned from snow to rain here.
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[personal profile] med_cat
Jan. 13th, 2011 11:20 pm (UTC)
Ah you mean you like my ice and penguins layout? Thanks ;) it's one of those provided by LJ itself...as to weather here, we got a bit of snow, which iced the roads and now there are just bits of snow lying about in grass and in various corners...no rain, though.

As to Medscape--they do post some good articles; I subscribe to several of their alerts via email; it's a free and convenient way to keep up with medical and nursing news :)
[identity profile] malkhos.livejournal.com
Jan. 13th, 2011 11:50 pm (UTC)
He was struck off months ago (to answer MedCat's question). But the people that believe him are like fundamentalist Christians. No argument, no evidence, will ever make the slightest impression on them. I could link now to half dozen sites that are putting out the reaction that Deere is being paid to fabricate all this by 'big pharma' as they call their mythological enemy. The fact that its all in court documents doesn't enter into it for them.
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