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By Stone in ageofautism.com is.gd/8kY8A

By now everyone has forgotten what it is all

about: all they need to know is that Wakefield has been

" discredited " , that there is no link between MMR and autism, and

he is appearing before the General Medical Council with his colleagues

Professors - and Simon Murch in a protracted hearing, which

may lead to them being barred from medical practice in the United Kingdom.

And it is true that you find that even with people close to the events that

their memories are by now somewhat hazy about what happened, and in what

order. Moreover, if the charges themselves are obscure, no part of the

defence has ever been reported in the mainstream UK media, let alone beyond

Britain's shores. The trial, on the other hand, has been going on

intermittently since July 2007 and will not conclude before summer 2009...

In early 2004 the media campaign against

Wakefield was gathering pace. In particular, the London Times and

Guardian newspapers were increasingly peppered with sarcastic

comments about Wakefield and the MMR-autism theory, mostly coming

from people with no direct knowledge of the science – but who

nevertheless felt the spontaneous need to offer an opinion. It was against

this background that on Wednesday 18 February the Lancet editor, Dr

Horton, received a visit from freelance journalist Deer and

Liberal-Democrat MP, Dr Evan , on behalf of the Sunday Times

newspaper – also invited were Wakefield, - and Murch. According

to Horton, giving evidence at the GMC, Deer and had been dispatched

by the newspaper in order to salvage a story which the newspaper had not

considered strong enough to publish the previous week. Again, according to

Horton in his book MMR Science and Fiction: Exploring the Vaccine Crisis

Deer spoke at great length making allegations of unethical procedures used

by the doctors, and of research fraud connected with the controversial

Lancet study of 1998, in which Wakefield and colleagues and colleagues had

defined a new condition 'ileal-lymphoid-nodular-hyperplasia' and posited,

but did not confirm, links with a history of MMR vaccination and autism.

Most of the ethical issues were rapidly

dismissed by the doctors, nor were they supported by the Lancet and the Royal

Free Hospital where the doctors had worked and the investigations took

place – though they were later revived by Evan under privilege in

Parliament and by the GMC. Agreement at the meeting, nevertheless, broke

down over Deer's allegations about Wakefield's involvement in MMR

litigation in which he had been commissioned to assess evidence by the

Legal Aid Board (later the Legal Services Commission). In short, Horton

denied he had known about this matter, and claimed that this alone

undermined the study. This was what gave legs to Deer's apparently

floundering investigation.

However, pre-empting Deer's Sunday newspaper

scoop, Horton decided to go public on the issue, holding a news conference

on Friday 20 February to denounce Wakefield. The following day he told BBC

news: " If I knew then what we know now we would not have published

that part of the paper which related to MMR, although I do believe

there was and remains validity to the connection between bowel disease and

autism'. To many Horton's claim not to have known was a flabbergasting

statement, but it was not immediately challenged – it may simply have been

that definitive evidence that he was mistaken was lacking.

The immediate effect of all this was

astonishing: for nearly four days Wakefield's alleged

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