"The last nail in the coffin came in 2007 during an 'autism omnibus proceeding' in the United States. (This is a federal hearing for several thousand parents who claim their children developed autism because of vaccines. Those parents are seeking compensation from the federal government.) Wakefield's former research assistant testified that his discovery about the MMR vaccine was, in reality, the result of contaminated lab equipment and that Wakefield knew this about but ignored it. In other words, as Offit writes, 'Wakefield had crossed the line from ill-conceived, poorly performed science to fraud.'"
In Salon, Rahul Parikh reviews Dr. Paul A. Offit's Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure.
As does Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal.
And in a January 2009 article, Donald G. McNeil, Jr., in The New York Times checks in with Offit.
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