Wakefield background info

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Author of discredited vaccine-autism report sues for libel. Gastroenterologist Wakefield has filed a defamation lawsuit in Austin, Texas, against the authors of a series of articles appearing in the British Medical Journal exactly 1 year ago that accused him of fraud.For background, see AoA series:

An Elaborate Fraud Series: Deer, BMJ, Murdoch, Dr. Wakefield

An Elaborate Fraud, Part 1: In Which a Murdoch Reporter Deceives the Mother of a Severely Autistic Child

An Elaborate Fraud, Part 2: In Which a Murdoch Newspaper’s Deceptive Tactics Infect the British Medical Journal

An Elaborate Fraud, Part 3: In Which the Mother of Two Autistic Children Demands Accountability From the British Medical Journal

An Elaborate Fraud, Part 4: News Analysis -- The British Medical Association Is “Standing Up for Doctors” Even If It Means Attacking Patient

An Elaborate Fraud, Part 5: In Which Deer Defends His Reporting and Accuses Autism Parents of a Conspiracy

An Elaborate Fraud, Part 6: In Which “Blagging” is Discredited as a Journalistic Tactic, Unless the British Medical Journal Publishes It

An Elaborate Fraud Series Part 7: In Which the BMJ’s Prime Example of Wakefield’s Alleged Misconduct Proves Flagrantly False

An Elaborate Fraud, Part 8: In Which The British Medical Journal Tries to Debunk a Clear-Cut Case of Regressive Autism

An Elaborate Fraud, Part 9: in Which the BMJ's Fraud Claim Collapses -- and No One Hears It Fall Blanket Lancet

For ironic comparison, see BMJ on medical fraud and compare it with CDC/Pediatrics using tainted data:

Drug research routinely suppressed, study authors findBy Fauber of the Journal Sentinel http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/drug-research-routinely-suppressed-study-authors-find-qd3kfnn-136625848.html

And

foia: CDC collusion with "Pediatrics" regarding thimerosal datahttp://mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/111025_PR10_ScandalExposedInMajorStudyOfAutismMercuryb.pdf