Andrew
Wakefield ally Carol Stott warned by Society over
professional misconduct
This page is
research from an investigation by Brian
Deer for the UK's Channel 4 Television
and The Sunday Times of London 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
Such was the
poverty of opinion behind a legal attack on MMR,
backed by Andrew Wakefield, that lawyers suing drug
companies resorted to hiring "experts"
with unusual pedigrees. Few more so than Carol
Stott, an information officer with a
Cambridgshire health authority, who launched a
bizarre hate mail attack on Brian Deer. Concerned
that Stott might have unsupervised access to
children, Deer wrote to the British Psychological
Society, the UK regulatory body for chartered
psychologists, which issued the ruling below
nb:
Despite this letter being marked "strictly
private and confidential", it plainly
doesn't have the necessary quality of confidence,
and has therefore been made public. Dr Stott's
involvement as an "expert witness" in
MMR litigation renders her conduct of public
interest
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