One of the great villains of medical history, who has done significant damage to public health with his false MMR-autism claims:
The editor admitted he would not have published the 1998 paper if he had known about what he called a “fatal conflict of interest”.
Mr Wakefield was being paid to see if there was any evidence to support possible legal action by a group of parents who claimed their children were damaged by the vaccine. Some children were involved in both studies.
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