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BMJ, Brian Deer file anti-SLAPP motion against Andrew Wakefield

Sunday, March 11th, 2012

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Walker-Smith wins appeal

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

Prof. John Walker-Smith was one of Andrew Wakefield’s colleagues at the Royal Free and participated in the research there. Prof. Walker-Smith was struck off the medical register along with Andrew Wakefield by the General Medical Council. Prof. Walker-Smith appealed and the GMC’s decision has been quashed. Here is the conclusion of the appeal decision: For [...]

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Cochrane Reports: Vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella in children (Review)

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

The Cochrane collaboration has put out an updated report on the MMR vaccine. Online discussions (for example, here) are (a) focused on the abstract only so far and (b) centered on two lines from the abstract: Exposure to the MMR vaccine was unlikely to be associated with autism, asthma, leukaemia, hay fever, type 1 diabetes, [...]

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Attorney for Prof. Walker-Smith: alleged link between MMR and autism utterly disproved

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Prof. John Walker-Smith was a colleague of Andrew Wakefield, a co-author on the no-retracted 1998 Lancet paper and shared the same fate as Mr. Wakefield after the General Medical Council Hearings: he was struck off the medical register. Prof. Walker-Smith has appealed (Mr. Wakefield did not). A few news stories have come up about this [...]

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