Author of discredited vaccine-autism report sues for libel

09 Jan 2012

The author of a discredited report linking autism to the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has filed a defamation suit against the British Medical Journal. Andrew Wakefield launched his libel case against three defendants in the United States last week. The gastroenterologist is suing investigative journalist Brian Deer for a BMJ article which analysed his data and accused him of fraud; BMJ editor Fiona Godlee who supported the accusation in an editorial, and the BMJ as a whole. Wakefield claims that the journal acted with malice and suggests a conflict of interest because the BMJ receives money from vaccine makers GlaxoSmithKline and Merck.

 

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  1. parent

    January 19, 2012 at 17:51

    the defamation suit can be found here. bravo !!! censorship by omission

    Dr Godlee when challenge about the COI wrote “it didn’t occur to us to mention it”

    http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/04/BritMedJ.pdf

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