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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