Wakefield’s MMR vaccine paper ‘elaborate fraud’ says BMJ

The repercussions of autism claims linked to the MMR vaccine, have been branded an ‘elaborate fraud’ by the British Medical Journal.

The BMJ has likened the fraudulent link between the MMR vaccine and autism as a new Piltdown Man hoax – a paleontological hoax linking man and ape.

The original 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield, has caused widespread fear since its publication in the Lancet.

BMJ Editor in Chief, Dr Fiona Godlee is now questioning all Wakefield’s publications and is calling for an investigation to see if any others should be retracted.

She says: “the MMR scare was based not on bad science but on a deliberate fraud” and that such “clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging vaccine scare.”