Wakefield MMR research fraud
The secret patent
A key finding of Deer’s Channel 4 investigation was that, even as the public alarm caused by Andrew Wakefield gathered pace – triggered by his calls for parents to shun the three-in-one MMR vaccine in favour of single shots – he’d filed a patent application claiming to have discovered his own, allegedly safer, single shot.
Following the programme, Wakefield published a statement denying this – a denial he repeated often. But his 1997 application on this page, below, was obtained exclusively by Deer and, with a 1998 published application, conclusively prove not only this shocking conflict of interest, but that Wakefield has lied about it ever since.
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