MMR campaigner unveils religious imagery as crusade's scientific facts run dry

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

Andrew Wakefield, the former British surgeon who was responsible for a global scare over MMR, subsequently moved to the US and began a campaign, which launched a new business venture called Thoughtful House. Public speaking has been a key tool, such as an address to a (poorly-attended) meeting at Carnegie Mellon university in November 2005, arranged by his supporters, at which he unveiled an apparent new instrument: the language of credulous cults