Wakefield interviewed says MMR "anxiety" is grounds to scope 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

Lording it among the desperate parents of autistic children in the wake of his now-discredited Lancet "finding", 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; that he regarded the Royal Free medical school as possessing a "specialty lab" for virological analysis; and, perhaps most importantly, his indications for the invasive and hazardous procedure of colonoscopy

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