Royal Free
research "review" on autistic
kids is only undated, one-paragraph note
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.
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part II: The Wakefield
factor
Documents
obtained during Brian Deer's
investigations included papers relating
to a battery of tests on autistic
children, carried out under sedation or
general anaesthetic at the Royal Free
hospital, London, and published in
the Lancet of February 28 1998. The
project was supervised by Dr Andrew Wakefield, who would later
deny that it was a clinical research
study requiring ethical approval
Here is
an "independent expert review"
of what the senior clinical researcher,
Professor John Walker-Smith, called a
"high risk" project: merely an
undated, one-paragraph note from a
gastroenterologist colleague of
Wakefield's in the medical school
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