How lawyer
appealed to clients for cases to send to
Andrew Wakefield for research
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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 Wakefield factorMMR children's
vaccine with autism. | Go to part
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In June
1996, lawyer Richard Barr sent this
newsletter to his MMR and MR clients,
seeking [at page 2] children to refer to Andrew Wakefield at the Royal Free
hospital. In the same month, the
two men submitted plans to the
government's Legal Services Commission
seeking money to fund research trying to
prove that the vaccines were unsafe.
Working for Barr, Wakefield was
eventually paid more than £400,000 to attack the
vaccines, with payments commencing two
years before his now notorious claims
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