Revealed: Wakefield's secret first MMR patent claims "safer measles vaccine"

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

A key finding of Deer's Channel 4 investigation was that, even as the public alarm caused by Andrew Wakefield and the Royal Free medical school gathered pace, he had filed a patent claiming to have discovered his own, allegedly safer, measles vaccine. Following the programme, Wakefield published a statement denying this - a denial he repeated often. The secret 1997 document below was obtained exclusively by Deer and, with a 1998 published application, conclusively prove this shocking conflict of interest