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UK Sunday Times Ordered to

“Remove MMR Journalist’s Stories "

.. . .on Dr. Wakefield from Paper’s Web Site

Work by Reporter Deer is at Center of Investigation Being Conducted by

Medical Regulators

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The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) of

London, an independent body that oversees journalism fairness in the UK, has

issued an interim order calling for the Sunday Times to remove stories

written by Deer about Dr. Wakefield from its web site. Dr.

Wakefield had filed an extensive complaint with the PCC regarding errors of

fact in Deer’s reportage on the MMR vaccine and its possible relationship to

autism. The General Medical Council (GMC) in the UK is presently hearing

evidence involving Dr. Wakefield and two of his colleagues following a

complaint to the GMC by Deer himself. The PCC decision today appears to

indicate there are questions about the accuracy of the Deer stories.

The PCC complaint by Dr. Wakefield provides

clear evidence that Deer’s allegations of “data fixing” by him are false. The

complaint also accused Deer of an undisclosed conflict of interest since Deer

also failed to reveal in his articles that he was the person who made the

original complaint to the GMC, misleading the newspaper’s readers over the

accuracy of his reporting.

“Given the ongoing nature of the dispute,”

Abell of the PCC wrote, “the articles should be removed from the

newspaper’s website until this matter has been concluded. This would

not be an admission of any liability on the part of the newspaper. "

Although media are expected to respond

promptly to complaints through an informal process, the Sunday Times took

more than three months to answer detailed issues raised by Dr. Wakefield, and

called upon legal representation to write the paper’s response. Despite this

the paper’s management have failed to produce any evidence of “data fixing”

by Dr. Wakefield. In its letter to Dr. Wakefield regarding his complaint

against Deer, the PCC “expressed concern at the initial slowness of the

newspaper’s response.” The PCC said it delayed a complete ruling until it has

a fuller accounting of all information submitted to the GMC, but that the outcome

of the GMC hearing is notrelevant to a final decision by the PCC.

“My contention has always been,” Dr. Wakefield

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