Royal
Free: dean reports committee "did not
approve the investigations" on kids
This page is
research from an investigation by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London and
the UK's Channel 4 Television into a campaign
linking the MMR children's
vaccine with autism. | Go to part I:
The Lancet scandal | Go to part II:
The Wakefield factor
The Lancet paper
claimed: "Ethical approval and
consent. Investigations were approved by the
Ethical Practices Committee of the Royal Free
Hospital NHS Trust, and parents gave informed
consent." Three weeks after a
letter from Professor Sir David Hull, then chairman of the
British government's Joint Committee on
Vaccination and Immunisation, to Arie Zuckerman,
then dean of the Royal Free's medical school, the
dean replied on his inquiries within the hospital
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