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Dr Wakefield struck off the medical register.

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Dr Wakefield struck off the medical register.
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Dr Wakefield struck off the medical register.
May 24, 2010 at 6:00 am
Everyone remembers Dr Andrew Wakefield? The guy who in the late 90s published research that said there was a link between autism and the MMR vaccine, causing a mass panic which resulted in a lot of children not getting the life-saving vaccine (the paper was later discredited and retracted by the journal it was published in). If that doesn't ring any bells, he's also the guy who paid children at his son's birthday party £5 for a blood sample to use in his research.

Well, he's just been struck off the medical register for a breach of ethics: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8695267.stm
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Dr Wakefield struck off the medical register. - by Tiberius - May 24, 2010 at 6:00 am

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