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