Doctor behind vaccine-autism link loses license (2010)
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- #medical ethics
- #vaccine controversy
- #research misconduct
- Dr. Andrew Wakefield lost his UK medical license after the GMC ruled he acted dishonestly and irresponsibly in autism-vaccine research.
- His 1998 Lancet paper linked MMR vaccines to autism in eight children, but subsequent studies failed to confirm his claims, and the Lancet retracted it.
- Wakefield faced misconduct charges, including conducting studies without ethical approval and paying children for blood samples, but he maintains vaccines cause autism and plans to appeal.