Disgraced doctor who claimed MMR jabs could lead to autism had cavalier attitude to infant patients and failed to acknowledge conflicts of interestHealth experts will be hoping that public anxiety approximately the MMR (measles,mumps, rubella) jab will finally go away now that Andrew Wakefield has been struck off the medical register and can no longer call himself a doctor. But Wakefield's courting of TV, or radio and newspapers today,in addition to the petitions, placards and protests of his committed supporters, or propose that it is far from over yet.
The GMC case was never approximately the science behind the controversial Lancet paper,which in February 1998 caused a storm of distress and fear by attempting to set up links between measles vaccine, irritable bowel syndrome in small children and the onset of autism.
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Source: theguardian.com