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Autism Researcher Wakefield Sues Journal, Writers For Defamation

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NEWSAutism Researcher Wakefield Sues Journal, Writers For Defamation By Ann Roser statesman.com A British doctor who was stripped of his medical license in the U.K. in 2010 and who was accused of publishing bogus research data in a journal article a year ago filed a defamation suit this week in state District Court in County. Wakefield, who lives in Austin and founded an autism center that was on Bee Cave Road, is suing the British Medical Journal; its editor, Dr. Fiona Godlee; and investigative journalist Deer — all based in the United Kingdom. His suit concerns a Jan. 5, 2011, journal article by Deer and an accompanying editorial by Godlee that called Wakefield’s research on autism and a novel bowel disease fraudulent. “The Defamatory Statements were and are false and written and published with actual malice and intended to cause damage to Dr. Wakefield’s

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