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Archive for the ‘GMC’ Category

Transcripts from the GMC hearings

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

With the defamation suit by Mr. Wakefield filed in Texas there is the strong possibility that the discussions will ensue again about what actually happened during Mr. Wakefield’s research at the Royal Free hospital. The one record of this is in the transcripts for the GMC hearings. These can be found online in a few [...]

Russ Roberts hosts: Deer on Autism, Vaccination, and Scientific Fraud

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

I keep thinking I’ve blogged the last on this. But, I do think there is some interesting information here for some. In Deer on Autism, Vaccination, and Scientific Fraud, Brian Deer goes through the history of his investigation—how/why he got started, what tipped him off that something was amiss with Mr. Wakefield’s research, the mistakes [...]

The Lancet’s two days to bury bad news

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Part three of Brian Deer’s series in the BMJ, The Lancet’s two days to bury bad news, has just been released. As you can imagine from the title, he lays out how the Lancet responded to the news that Brian Deer was publishing a story on the Wakefield team’s article in The Lancet. Brian Deer’s [...]

Andrew Wakefield’s erasure from the UK medical register is complete

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

This just isn’t Andrew Wakefield’s week. Last year the General Medical Council (GMC) in the UK found Andrew Wakefield guilty of multiple counts of improper conduct. These include subjecting disabled children to invasive tests that were not in their clinical interest, placing children in a research program without first obtaining the safeguards of ethical approval, [...]

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