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SPOTLIGHT: Autism link researcher faces charges
Dr. Andrew Wakefield and two colleagues will begin their defense today against charges they violated ethics guidelines in the U.K. while developing a 1998 paper that linked autism to vaccines. That study raised a hue and cry around the world that has yet to completely die down, even after a raft of studies now conclude that there is no link. One charge alleges that he took blood samples from children at a party after offering financial rewards. He is also accused of failing to disclose to a journal that he was advising attorneys representing parents who alleged their children were harmed by a jab. Article
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By Gavin M | Posted 2:03pm | March 28, 2008
I worked with one of the people who worked on the original study linking MMR to autism, and even at the time he said that another lab was unable to reproduce the results from the same samples.
As reproducibility is a key factor in the validity of any scientific study, the work should never have gone to press in the first place.
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