How lawyer
appealed to clients for kids to send for
Andrew Wakefield's research
This page
is material from the award-winning investigation by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London, the
UKs Channel 4 TV network and BMJ, the British
Medical Journal, which exposed vaccine
research fraudster Andrew Wakefield |
Investigation
summary
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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