Dateline NBC, first broadcast August 30, 2009
Interviewed by Matt Lauer, above, Wakefield states with regard to a dozen children enrolled at a London hospital for what in 1998 became a fraudulent research paper in the Lancet medical journal:
“Now let’s be clear. They were admitted to the Royal Free for investigation of their symptoms. Nothing to do with research, nothing to do with class action, nothing to do with vaccines.”
As Deer’s award-winning Sunday Times investigation would prove, this was an outright lie. In May 2010 Wakefield would be permanently banned from medical practice, and his research in the Lancet of February 1998 would be stricken from medical literature.
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