UK: MMR row doctor defends work

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7th April 2010

UK NEWS

 

MMR ROW DOCTOR DEFENDS

WORK

 

 

Dr Andrew Wakefield said the case against him was driven by a desire to

'crush dissent'

Wednesday April 7,2010

The doctor at the centre of the MMR row has defended his work, saying the

case against him was driven by a desire to " crush

dissent " .

Dr Andrew Wakefield said the General Medical Council (GMC) hearing was

about protecting the Government's MMR vaccination policy and some of the

GMC's findings on the case were " false " .

The GMC is due to resume its hearing into his research on MMR and autism.

It will decide whether he and two colleagues, Professors John

Walker-Smith and Simon Murch, are guilty of serious professional

misconduct and should be struck off the medical register.

The panel is expected to make its final decision in June but will hear

submissions from GMC lawyers and representatives for the doctors in the

next few days.

In January, the GMC ruled Dr Wakefield " showed a callous

disregard " for the suffering of children and subjected some

youngsters to unnecessary tests.

It said he " abused his position of trust " as he researched a

possible link between the MMR vaccine, bowel disease and autism.

He also brought the medical profession " into disrepute " after

he took blood samples from children at his son's birthday party in return

for £5 payments.

The panel ruled all three doctors were guilty of undertaking research on

children without approval from an ethics committee.

Dr Wakefield said in a statement issued on Tuesday: " We can prove,

with extensive documentary evidence, that this conclusion is false. Let

me make it absolutely clear that, at its heart, the GMC hearing has been

about the protection of MMR vaccination policy.

" The case has been driven by an agenda to crush dissent that in my

opinion serves the Government and the pharmaceutical industry - not the

welfare of children. It's important to note that there has never been a

complaint against any of the doctors by any parent involved in this case

- only universal parental support and gratitude. "

 

 

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

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