Fudenberg and the medical board
Among Brian Deer’s findings was that Andrew Wakefield had filed patent claims for a vaccine and a possible “complete cure” for autism, based on a fringe theory of “transfer factors”.
His collaborator and “co-inventor” was the late Hugh Fudenberg, who claimed in a 2004 interview with Deer to cure autistic children with his own bone marrow. He said he rolled this out in a sheet, three cells deep, on his kitchen table in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Here’s Fudenberg’s record with the South Carolina board of medical examiners. In November 1995, he was banned indefinitely from prescribing – a worrying picture for the Royal Free medical school in London, which, before hosting the launch of the anti-MMR campaign in 1998, was (according to Wakefield) waiting on Fudenberg’s “business plan”.
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