Wakefield interview says vaccine anxiety is grounds to go into autistic children

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

Anti-MMR campaign guru Andrew Wakefield was interviewed in the fall of 1998 at a US "Defeat Autism Now" conference. This interview reports how parents thought he'd found "unusual swelling" in children; how he speaks of "my patients", despite him never having had legal care of a patient at any time in his career; how he claimed his medical school possessed a "specialty lab", although it did not; and, perhaps most importantly, he gives his indications for the invasive and hazardous procedure of colonoscopy

From: Andi News, vol 1, issue 4, 1998