{"id":31818,"date":"2012-01-09T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31818"},"modified":"2012-01-09T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T11:59:50","slug":"author-of-discredited-vaccine-autism-report-sues-for-libel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31818","title":{"rendered":"Author of discredited vaccine-autism report sues for libel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author of a discredited report linking autism to the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has filed a <a title=\"Science : Author of Discredited Vaccine-Autism Report Sues for Libel\" href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/scienceinsider\/2012\/01\/author-of-discredited-vaccine.html?ref=ra\" target=\"_blank\">defamation suit<\/a> against the <a title=\"BMJ : Home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Medical Journal<\/a>.\u00a0Andrew Wakefield launched his libel case against\u00a0three defendants in the <a title=\"Index on Censorship : USA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/USA\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a>\u00a0last week. The gastroenterologist is suing investigative journalist Brian Deer for a <a title=\"BMJ : How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/342\/bmj.c5347\" target=\"_blank\">BMJ\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0which analysed his data and accused him of fraud; BMJ editor Fiona Godlee who <a title=\"BMJ : Wakefield\u2019s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/342\/bmj.c7452\" target=\"_blank\">supported the accusation<\/a> in an editorial, and the BMJ as a whole.\u00a0Wakefield claims that the journal\u00a0acted with malice and suggests a conflict of interest because the\u00a0BMJ\u00a0receives money from vaccine makers GlaxoSmithKline and Merck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0Andrew Wakefield launched his libel case against\u00a0three defendants in the United States\u00a0last week. The gastroenterologist is suing investigative journalist Brian Deer for a BMJ\u00a0article\u00a0which analysed his data and accused him of fraud; BMJ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[744,584,585],"tags":[4166,4165,4025,241,165,727,1209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31818"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31823,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31818\/revisions\/31823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}