SchaferAutismReport: Showbusiness Stars Help Controversial Dr. Wakefield Relaunch Career

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Showbusiness Stars Help Controversial MMR Vax Doctor Wakefield Relaunch

Career

By Neil Sears, UK. tiny.pl/864t

Dr Wakefield: Has won the backing of

celebrities in the U.S.

The doctor whose research has been blamed

for a slump in child vaccinations in Britain has relaunched his career in

America with celebrity support.

Wakefield, 51, who is

being investigated by the General Medical Council over his research

linking the MMR vaccine to autism, has opened a clinic in Austin, Texas.

The centre, which caters for children with

autism and other developmental disorders, boasts two members of

pop band the Dixie Chicks as a board member and adviser.

Dr Wakefield's beliefs about the dangers of

vaccines are gaining increasing currency in America.

Comedy film star Jim Carrey and his former

Playboy model partner McCarthy have appeared on television to promote

her book calling for fewer child vaccinations.

The celebrity couple believe Miss McCarthy's

six-year-old son was 'vaccine damaged' two years ago, and say they want to

stop the same happening to other children.

British opposition to the MMR vaccine, which

protects against measles, mumps and rubella, began in 1998 when Dr

Wakefield and other researchers published a paper in The Lancet claiming

evidence linked the injection to cases of autism in 12 children.

Parents began refusing to have their

children vaccinated and in the decade since then the proportion of children

receiving the MMR jab has fallen to 85 per cent.

Experts recommend an uptake rate of at least

95 per cent to prevent disease outbreaks. Measles in particular is becoming

more common in London, studies show.

Dr Wakefield's findings have been repeatedly

criticised. Other scientists said they were unable to replicate them,

leading ten out of his 12 fellow researchers to withdraw their support for

the claims.

In July Dr Wakefield appeared before the GMC

accused of suppressing data and behaving 'dishonestly and irresponsibly' by

not saying how he found the autism victims for his study.

It has been alleged that

lawyers acting for some of the children were planning to sue the

vaccine's manufacturers, and that Dr Wakefield was paid thousands of

pounds to prove it caused brain damage.

Dr Wakefield insists he has always kept to

high standards, but faces being struck off if found guilty of

professional misconduct when the hearing resumes in November.

He moved to Texas with his wife

Carmel after leaving his job at London's-Royal Free Hospital in 2001.

Pennsylvania University's professor of paediatrics Offit has warned:

'Wakefield's malign influence is spreading across the United States, where

we have seen vaccination rates drop and unprecedented chains of measles

infections in the last year.'

Speaking out for the first time since his

GMC hearing, Dr Wakefield claimed he was the victim of a witch hunt. 'I'm

not against vaccinations,' he said.

'I don't know for sure vaccines cause autism

but I suspect they do. The opposition just states categorically it does

not. But they don't know either.

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