Roy Pounder warned of attack on MMR six weeks before Lancet paper is published

This page is material from the award-winning investigation by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London, the UK’s Channel 4 TV network and BMJ, the British Medical Journal, which exposed vaccine research fraudster Andrew Wakefield | Investigation summary

After the MMR scare broke, at a press conference called to launch the Lancet paper, it was often suggested that the media were to blame, or that results were misinterpreted. The letter below, however, by Professor Roy Pounder, Andrew Wakefield's mentor and collaborator, written six weeks before the event, shows that the Royal Free was well aware of the damage to vaccination rates that was likely to follow. Pounder even advises the government to prepare extra stocks of single vaccines for the aftermath of the attack