This research cheat just can’t help it
By Brian Deer – PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
19 June 2026
That ex-doctor Andrew Wakefield lies like geese shit in ponds, is something I came to terms with more than twenty years ago when he responded to one of my reports. It’s rarely a doddle to catch him out, but his compulsion to control others reveals itself from time to time in full-on whoppers — like the one I’ll show you now — that can be disposed of unencumbered by fact.
Sometimes you can understand for yourself the extent of Andrew Wakefield’s willingness to lie to keep control of others. Recently, I’ve landed on a video online that perfectly captures the phenomenon – but
In this video, he tells a lie that you can work out to be a lie without any evidence other than Wakefield’s words and your own understanding of the world. It is, if you like, an analytic lie. You need no further evidence to detect deception. In this video, at just after 33 and a half minutes, he’s in the middle of lying about a deposition I gave years ago in London, when he says this:
“At this stage, the lawyers, their lawyers, the British Medical Journal’s lawyers who had flown in from from Houston for this hearing. He got up and he walked out of the room because they had lied to him. You never lie to your own counsel. They had lied to him. He was so disgusted. He got up and he walked out. ”
So Wakefield is telling you that a high-priced lawyer, retained by a medical journal for very heavy defamation litigation (Johnny Depp money) who’d flown 4,700 miles from Texas for the occasion, walked out of a deposition when his client lied.
Think about that. Really, think about that.
Far from walking out, any lawyer would undoubtedly be galvanised by such a situation (which never happened). It would be his clear duty to his client (the British Medical Journal) to understand what was going on so as better to advise them. To walk out would be actionable professional misconduct, reportable to a bar authority.
If the lawyer didn’t make a notes to complement the deposition video and transcript, he would be thrilled to break out the popcorn. What could be more interesting to a defamation specialist than listening to a major client lying.
It didn’t happen, of course. And Wakefield knows this. But like many compulsive liars, he sometimes doesn’t think through his lies before unleashing them into the world. I could give you even better ones from him, which I’m holding secure. But, you can work out for yourself whether what he said is true. Visualize a deposition and you’ll know.
You can even ask AI what the chances are that he was telling the truth. Microsoft’s Copilot told me this:
“The chances are extremely low—to the point of being vanishingly improbable—that a senior, high priced defamation lawyer would fly from Texas to London for a deposition in a multi million pound libel action and then walk out in disgust because their own client was lying. There is no evidence in reported cases of anything close to this happening, and the professional, ethical, and financial incentives all run in the opposite direction.”
In fact (which alas you can’t determine analytically) is that it was Wakefield who walked out of the deposition that day – at precisely the point I began replying to his attorney who had asked me what the BMJ and I say was the fraud behind Wakefield’s now-notorious Lancet paper of 1998., which my journalism saw retracted after Wakefield was banned from medicine for, among a great many other things, lying.
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