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David Heath
Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:44
In London on January 28th The General Medical Council announced its findings from a "Fitness to Practice" Panel Hearing investigating Dr Andrew Wakefield and others.
In 1998, Dr Andrew Wakefield published a study in The Lancet entitled "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children." which attempted to draw a link between the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine and Autism. The extent of the medical community's response to the paper may be seen here.
The upshot of this was to cause immunisation rates to drop alarmingly and subsequently, the rate of measles infection to rise in the UK and around the world.
The study also gave rise to a protest group generally referred to as the Antivaxxers. In fact in the middle of last year, Dick Smith funded a full-page advertisement in The Australian to strongly assert the falsehood of Wakefield's study.
Yesterday, the General Medical Council (essentially The UK's medical registration authority) handed down its judgement on the Fitness to Practice hearing.
In the introduction to its findings, the GMC stressed:
The Panel wish to make it clear that this case is not concerned with whether there is or might be any link between the MMR vaccination and autism. It has not speculated and has concerned itself only with the evidence before it and the reasonable inferences that can be drawn from that evidence as an independent and impartial tribunal established by law.
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