Antivaxxer movement leader found to have acted unethically

[Swede]

Well I am shocked to hear this,shocked.


The GMC (the independent body of medical regulators in the UK, rather like the AMA in the US) didn’t investigate whether his claims were correct or not — and let’s be very clear, his claims have been shown beyond any doubt to be totally wrong — only whether he acted ethically in his research. What they found is that his research (involving spinal taps of children) was against the children’s clinical interest, that Wakefield was unqualified to perform the test, and that he had no ethical approval to do them.

Wow. Again, let’s be clear: that’s a whole lot of ethical damnation from the UK’s leading medical board.

Not to pile on here, but I was rather surprised that they didn’t mention the claims — supported by a lot of evidence — that on top of all that unethical behavior, he may have faked his results, too. There’s also no mention of his grave conflict of interest– at the time he published his paper slamming vaccines and which started the antivax craze, he was developing an alternative to vaccinations, so he had a very large monetary incentive to make the public distrust vaccines.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/28/antivaxxer-movement-leader-found-to-have-acted-unethically/

[Orrex]

1. Wakefield was the best keyboardist that Yes ever had.

Oh.

[That Is Quite Enough]

2. The anti-vaccination campaign makes me :facepalm:

[madrchsod]

3. they may pull his license....

which would be the right thing to do. he should never do research or practice again. what he did has caused great damage.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

4. Huge shocker there eh?