MMR Scare Doctor Andrew Wakefield Makes Fortune in US

[beam me up scottie]

In 2006, only months before the Department of Health announced that he would face GMC charges, he sold his house in Kew, London, for just over £1 million and bought a retreat in an exclusive suburb of Austin for $905,000 (£629,000).

Dr Wakefield, a gastroenterologist, told The Times that he was not practising medicine in the United States, where he does not have a licence, but was working on research as executive director of the clinic. His salary is understood to be almost £200,000 a year.

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Dr Wakefield and two former colleagues at the Royal Free are charged by the GMC with serious professional misconduct in relation to the 1998Lancetpaper and a press briefing. In the briefing he suggested that the combined MMR jab could be linked to bowel disorders and autism.

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The judge went out of his way to denounce a key colleague of Dr Wakefield at Thoughtful House, Dr Arthur Krigsman, who treated Michelle, for offering medical advice that was “very wrong” and suggested it amounted to “gross medical misjudgment”.

The UK Department of Health and the vast majority of doctors and scientists say that the facts in favour of routine MMR vaccination for children aged 12 to 15 months are already indisputable, with more than 500 million doses of the vaccine having been given in 90 countries since the 1970s.

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Thoughtful House received nearly $2.4 million in donations in 2007, the latest year for which its tax forms have been released, and had net assets of $4.5 million.

more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5728998.ece

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Crook

He created fraudulent data for profit. This bad data encouraged lots of people to skip vaccinations for their kids, leading to injury and death.

Shame.

[beam me up scottie]

3. I agree, there is no way to calculate how much suffering he's caused.

He profited in both countries and he should be tried in both countries.

[xchrom]

2. recommend -- i thought only big pharma could do that -- so i guess anti-vaxers

could be thought of as on the pay roll.

[beam me up scottie]

4. Yep, he did it for the money. n/t

[xchrom]

6. so the anti-vaxer/anti-science crew who post here

do it for the money too?

you get your check from big pharma right?

[beam me up scottie]

8. Yep, direct deposited right into my offshore account.

And people tried to tell me those "Get Rich Working From Home!" ads were scams...

Seriously, I have to question the motive of anyone who advises parents not to vaccinate their kids.

[xchrom]

10. oh i suspect as well --

maybe not the money -- well i won't go there.

[beam me up scottie]

11. We should expect the same when a vaccine for HIV is approved and marketed.

Because we all know that viruses like HPV and HIV can be prevented by never having sex.

[xchrom]

14. i expect nothing less from them.

and i'm not reminding a few what their stand was.

should we ever be so lucky.

[LeftishBrit]

12. So maybe EVERYONE is a shill for someone?

Personally, I only take money from Big Llama.

[semillama]

16. Yes, yes you do.

Your check is in the mail.

[xchrom]

17. i get mine from Big Shwarma.

i hold a sign outside the restaurant.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. So are the anti-vaxers shills for Wakefield?

[xchrom]

7. PAID shills.

and PAID shills for chelation therapy -- and PAID shills for apricot seed cures for cancer.

[beam me up scottie]

9. I don't know but they sure post a lot of links to for-profit altie websites.

And conspiracy websites.

[trotsky]

13. CONFLICT OF INTEREST! CONFLICT OF INTEREST!

Where are the vaccine-autism proponents to denounce this liar?

*chirp, chirp*

[uppityperson]

24. I think you are all on ignore?

big pharma shill here

[cosmik debris]

15. Why Oh Why Did he have to move to Texas.

We have more than our share of quacks here already.

[beam me up scottie]

18. kick

[xchrom]

19. kick

[xchrom]

20. anti-vaxer shills check in!!!

:woohoo:

[varkam]

21. kick for our anti-vaxxer friends

[Why Syzygy]

22. $200,000 "fortune"? *SNARF* WS calls that BIRD SEED. nt

[cosmik debris]

23. So you admit he took a bribe

You just argue about the size of the bribe?

[Why Syzygy]

25. If I read correctly,

that's what his current salary is. What bribe? Maybe I skimmed too quickly. I did read enough to have a pretty good idea of where he's living, and 200K is probably on the low average size for the area.