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Andrew Wakefield Lodges Complaint About Brian Deer with Press Complaints Commission

Dr Andrew Wakefield has submitted a Press Complaints Commission complaints about Brian Deer. Wakefield is apprehensive that Deer’s allegations have damaged his credibility – hard to damage what was already fatally compromised by the Chadwick and Bustin revelations a the Autism Omnibus Proceedings in 2007. Continue reading

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Patrick Holford Advises You to Remove Mercury Fillings and Undergo Chelation But Is Still Silent About Andrew Wakefield?

Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford is still ignoring the sore thumb issue of Dr Andrew Wakefield and the findings of fraud and deliberate manipulation in association with his research. Holford is advising people to take his advice, buy his books and supplements and undergo unevidenced interventions such as chelation for unproven heavy metal toxicity. Continue reading

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Will Patrick Holford Be Calling Upon His Mailing List to Sign the New Andrew Wakefield Petition? If So, We’ve Made Some Annotations

In June 2007 Patrick Holford contacted his mailing list to ask them to sign a petition in support of Andrew Wakefield. In February 2009, there is a new petition to support Wakefield. Holford has yet to redact his products and recommendations that rely upon Wakefield’s research so will he ask his followers to sign this new petition? We provide an annotated version of the We Support Andrew Wakefield petition. Continue reading

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Patrick Holford Promotes Error: Does This Explain His Continuing Support for Opposing MMR and Supporting Andrew Wakefield’s Research?

Former Visiting Professor Patrick Holford is still failing to reconsider his recommendations for the ‘treatment’ of autism despite the thorough examination of Andrew Wakefield’s research and related work and the conclusion that it is fatally flawed both by error and through deliberate manipulation. Continue reading

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Patrick Holford on Andrew Wakefield: He Needs to Issue an Update

Several of Patrick Holford’s entrepreneurial products for autism have their theoretical justification in Andrew Wakefield’s work. With the recent explicit findings from the Autism Omnibus, it is clear that Wakefield’s research can not be relied upon (referred to in terms of “fraud” and “manipulation). It is past time for Holford to update his readers and subscribers who depend upon him for up-to-date research and advice. Continue reading

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Special Court that Heard the Autism Omnibus Says that Measles Vaccine Is Not Associated with Neurological Damage: Some Detail from the Rulings

Special Court that Heard the Autism Omnibus Says that Measles Vaccine Is Not Associated with Neurological Damage. Some quotations from the rulings in the cases of Cedillo, Hazlehurst and Snyder. Some interesting insights into the petitioners attempts to prevent Professor Stephen Bustin’s damning and authoritative testimony concerning the laboratory at the heart of the flawed research produced by Dr Andrew Wakefield. Continue reading

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Jeni Barnett, LBC and Global Radio, MMR Segment 7 Jan 2009 and the Ben Goldacre Coverage: Part 2

Dr Ben Goldacre v. Jeni Barnett, LBC Radio and Global Radio in re: the MMR Vaccine Segment of Jeni’s show on 7 Jan 2009. Part 2 of the list of blogs and mainstream media outlets that are covering the story. Continue reading

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Jeni Barnett and the Missing Blog Posts About MMR Segment on LBC Radio

Jeni Barnett and LBC Radio, you might wish there to be an EMP to remove all traces of this sad and sorry incident concerning the ill-conceived MMR segment and the kerfuffle with Dr Ben Goldacre but that isn’t going to happen. Deleting blog posts will not help you mend fences. Continue reading

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Andrew Wakefield Responds to Brian Deer: Summary, “I regret nothing…Single jabs are the way ahead”

Dr Andrew Wakefield has issued a response to Brian Deer that is effectively, “Anything that you criticise, some other guy done it. I am not wrong, I am a martyred hero, and single jabs are the best response to any upcoming measles epidemic”. Continue reading

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Brian Deer Discusses Andrew Wakefield in the Sunday Times: Many Updates

Brian Deer has published some further information about Andrew Wakefield and his research in the Sunday Times. Deer describes some evidence that indicate that Wakefield is said to have “changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism”. Continue reading

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