The GMC Hearings

The UK General Medical Council (GMC) against Dr Andrew Wakefield, Professor Simon Murch and Professor Walker-Smith.

On the 16th July 2007 Professor Simon Murch, Professor John Walker-Smith and Dr Andrew Wakefield began what was initially supposed to be a 16-week hearing into allegations of professional misconduct. The GMC had brought the case itself claiming that it was in the public interest. In our view no parent of a child has complained. No child has been injured.  Parents of children who have been treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London have nothing but praise for the way their children were cared for and treated by the three doctors. Parents have informed us that their children's conditions were not being taken seriously or treated appropriately by their own GPs or paediatricians. 

JABS believes that the only reason these doctors were being brought before the GMC was because the Lancet report published in February 1998 referred to the combined measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccines given to the 12 children mentioned within the report. Eight of the twelve children's parents blamed the vaccine for their child's condition. Attention was therefore brought to questions over the MMR programme, autistic spectrum disorders and bowel disease and further investigation was called for by the publishing doctors.

JABS believes that if MMR vaccines had not been mentioned within the report there would have been no criticism of the report and no GMC hearing.

Martin J Walker attended the hearing and his diaries have been published on CryShame.com.

On 28 January 2010, the GMC found some of the charges proved. They ruled that Wakefield had "failed in his duties as a responsible consultant", acted both against the interests of his patients, and "dishonestly and irresponsibly" in his published research. Dr Wakefield was struck off the Medical Register in May 2010, but continues to defend his research and conclusions.

The following press features describe what has happened since.

The Telegraph:

Dr Andrew Wakefield vows to appeal decision to strike him off medical register by Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
The controversial doctor who sparked a widespread scare over the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine has claimed regulators had struck him off the medial register to shield the Government “from exposure” over the jab.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7761015/Dr-Andrew-Wakefield-vows-to-appeal-decision-to-strike-him-off-medical-register.html

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Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy by Andrew J Wakefield

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Callous-Disregard-Autism-Vaccines-Tragedy/dp/1616081694

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The British Medical Journal features an editorial entitled: 'The fraud behind the MMR scare'

http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d22.full?sid=66dc950d-61d7-4ff3-a51f-1ab8130f7412

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Progressive Radio Network

Gary Null is an investigative journalist and presenter of the Progressive Radio Network in the States. On the 27th January 2011 he conducted a one hour interview with Brian Deer and then followed this with an invitation to Dr Wakefield to respond to Brian Deer's allegations. Gary Null also asked some interested parties to join in the discussion: Jim Moody, Clifford Miller, F Edward Yazbak and Isabella Thomas.

Jim Moody chairs the government affairs committee of SafeMinds. He is the founder of Citizens for a Competitive Economy. Jim is a practising attorney and is active in cause-related advocacy for children with autism.

Clifford Miller is a UK lawyer from Kent and a solicitor of the supreme court of England civil proceedings, who has specialized in intellectual property, anti-trust and legal issues in the electronics and communication fields. Over the years he has been active in investigating vaccine issues and science.

F. Edward Yazbak, MD, FAAP practised paediatrics and was a school physician in Northern Rhode Island for 34 years. Dr. Yazbak served as Pediatric Director of the Child Development Study and an Assistant Member of the Institute of Health Sciences at Brown University. He was the Assistant Clinical Director for infectious diseases at the Charles V. Chapin Hospital and the Director of Pediatrics at the Woonsocket Hospital in Rhode Island. Since 1998, Dr. Yazbak has conducted research into regressive autism. He has published extensively on the prevalence, autoimmune causes and relationship between development of regressive autism in children whose mothers were subjected to repeated live virus vaccination, as well as the relationship between the proliferation of multiple vaccines and vaccine adverse events leading to autism. He is an expert witness in litigation involving autism, vaccine injury and Shaken Baby Syndrome.

Isabella Thomas is the most vocal of all parents involved in the initial study conducted by Dr. Wakefield. She has two autistic children that were both patients in the Royal Free study documented in the Lancet February 1998 report. Out of her four children, only the 2 who received the MMR vaccines have serious bowel disorders and autism. She is also the main parent that Brian Deer has been attacking, even though she is not a member of any anti-vaccination group in the UK.

The 4 hour discussion can be downloaded from the link below. Scroll down to 27 January 2011. In my opinion, this is the Watergate of MMR.

http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-gary-null-show-wnye/
12-2pm EST, 5-7pm UK

Dr. Wakefield, Jim Moody, Clifford Miller, Dr F Edward Yazbak, Isabella Thomas are all interviewed.
Brian Deer's accusations are referred to following his radio interview the day before with Gary Null and Dr Wakefield responds referring to documentary evidence to substantiate his statements.

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Natural News reports

Documents emerge proving Dr Andrew Wakefield innocent

http://www.naturalnews.com/031116_Dr_Andrew_Wakefield_British_Medical_Journal.html

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Age of Autism:

BMJ Admits Competing Commercial Interests in Wakefield Attacks Warranted Disclosure by John Stone

http://www.ageofautism.com/2011/03/bmj-admits-competing-commercial-interests-in-wakefield-attacks-warranted-disclosure.html

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