The Sunday Times carries a bombshell today, reporting that, according to evidence presented to the General Medical Council, Andrew Wakefield faked patient data in the original paper purporting to find a connection between MMR vaccine and autism, sparking the baseless and highly destructive vaccine scare that has lasted a decade and caused the incidence of measles to rocket.
The Sunday Times reports that Wakefield, alongside doctors John Walker-Smith and Simon Murch, is standing trial for serious professional misconduct before the Council, which has the power to reprimand them or strike them off the medical register.
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