SchaferAutismReport: Damning Verdict on MMR doctor: Anger as GMC Attacks 'Callous Disregard' For Sick Children

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MMR doctor: Anger as GMC Attacks 'Callous Disregard' For Sick Children

By Fiona Macrae and Wilkes,

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The doctor who sparked the MMR

controversy faces being struck off for showing a ‘callous disregard’ for

the suffering of children.

Wakefield, who first linked the

triple jab to autism and bowel problems, acted ‘dishonestly and

irresponsibly’ when publicising his research, the General Medical Council

ruled yesterday.

After the hearing: Dr

Wakefield with wife Carmel at GMC HQ in London

Its verdict at the end of the

longest and most expensive hearing in its 148-year history was supposed to

draw a line under the 12-year saga provoked by his study of 12 autistic

children published in the Lancet.

Instead there were extraordinary scenes as

parents at the hearing voiced their support for the doctor.

One, , shouted ‘this is a

set-up, it’s disgusting’, and stormed out. Another shouted: ‘Bastards.’ Dr

Wakefield did not attend the reading of the verdict but appeared outside

the GMC’s central London headquarters, and was followed down the street by

chants of ‘For he’s a jolly good fellow’.

The doctor later said he was ‘extremely

disappointed’ and branded as ‘unfounded and unjust’ the allegations against

him and two research colleagues.

Dr Wakefield’s supporters claim he was

the victim of a witch-hunt because none of the families featured in the

controversial study complained to the GMC. The parents of the children he

treated say he is guilty only of doing his job properly.

The GMC went out of its way to say it is

assessing the way Dr Wakefield went about his research and not the validity

of his findings, but to many, it is the safety of MMR that was on trial.

The hearing, which started in July 2007,

centred on a study of a dozen children by Dr Wakefield and 12 doctors which

linked the MMR jab with autism and bowel problems.

It was published in the Lancet, the highly

respected medical journal, in 1998 but stopped short of blaming the triple

jab for the children’s symptoms.

But, at a press conference, Dr Wakefield

said there were ‘ sufficient anxieties for a case to be made’ to give the

three vaccines separately.

Numerous other studies, including one

involving three million children, failed to make the link.

But vaccination rates went into freefall,

and in 2006 a 13-year-old boy died in the country’s first measles fatality

for 14 years.

Another death followed two years later.

The controversy reached its peak in late

2001 when Tony and Cherie Blair refused to say if their

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