Comments on: What are the charges against Dr. Wakefield?

By: daedalus2u

daedalus2u — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:35:53 +0000

Kelli, The goal of publishing in the scientific literature is to accurately diseminate knowledge. Wakefield was found to have been dishonest and misleading multiple times in what he published.

Lying about your research does not give anyone more information.

By: Dedj

Dedj — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:37:00 +0000

Remember, there are several charges which relate to appropriation of funds, representation of role, and representation of methodology in response to concerns.

To say Wakefield is a good man when the relevant authourity that determines non-criminal charges against doctors has found otherwise is an odd position to take.

By: Kev

Kev — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:43:37 +0000

I disagree Kelli, I think he’s an opportunist who was caught.

By: Kelli

Kelli — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:22:47 +0000

Keep in mind that the goal of research is to give us more information. Whether a link is found between vacines and autism or not, the overall goal is to provide us with information to make informed decisions. Research is complicated. If you have ever tried it…there are millions of factors to consider. You can not rule them all out. I think Wakefield is a good man trying to do good things. The children and families who donated their blood samples agreed to do so.

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By: isles

isles — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:38:19 +0000

Let’s hope this is like the Autism Omnibus cases in the US, where it became apparent upon the release of the decisions that the reason it took so long for them to come out was that the judges who wrote them were very careful to explain in detail why the vaccine-autism claimants’ arguments could not be true.

By: brian

brian — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:21:15 +0000

Some context might be useful. Here is a link to the text of the Declaration of Helsinki, the internationally-accepted guidelines for medical research:

http://www.wma.net/en/30public.....index.html

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:51:48 +0000

These are serious allegations. You can’t just go around using children as guinea pigs and thumbing your nose at research ethics. If they’ve crossed a very clear line here, I hope the panel recognizes that. There should be zero encouragement for this kind of sneaky behavior in human “subjects” research. These guidelines and standards exist to prevent researchers from exploiting vulnerable populations. I’d say that the target patients and their families were extraordinarily vulnerable to exploitation and that especial care should have been taken to ensure that all codes and ethical requirements were carefully followed to the very letter and spirit of these rules. It would appear that was not the case…but we’ll see.