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Wakefield Leaves Thoughtful House

By Ann Roser, statesman.com is.gd/8KsJK

Facing the possible loss of his

medical license in England, Dr. Wakefield has stepped down as

executive director of the Thoughtful House Center for Children, an autism

education and treatment center for children that he helped found in Austin

in 2005.

Last month, a panel of the General Medical

Council, which regulates doctors in the U.K., found that

Wakefield was dishonest and irresponsible in conducting research on children

in England a dozen years ago. The panel also said Wakefield showed a

" callous disregard " for children at his child's birthday party in

1999 when he had blood taken from them and paid them about $10 each. He later

joked at a conference about the children being " paid for their

discomfort. "

Wakefield's 1998 work, published in The

Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal, fueled a worldwide scare over

vaccines and autism. The Lancet retracted the study earlier this month.

Thoughtful House would not answer questions

about Wakefield's departure. By Thursday morning, he was removed from the

center's staff list, and the center issued a statement when asked whether

Wakefield had resigned.

" The needs of the children we serve must

always come first, " it said. " All of us at Thoughtful House are

grateful to Dr. Wakefield for the valuable work he has done here. We fully

support his decision to leave Thoughtful House in order to make sure that the

controversy surrounding the recent findings of the General Medical Council

does not interfere with the important work that our dedicated team of

clinicians and researchers is doing on behalf of children with autism and

their families. All of us at Thoughtful House continue to fight every day for

the recovery of children with developmental disorders. "

Wakefield, who is in his early 50s, helped

draw musicians and other celebrities to the Thoughtful House, where he was

said to be in charge of research.

Parents who brought their children to the

clinic said they saw him as a persecuted hero whose staff

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