Summarize the allegations against Wakefield and his co-authors From These Two Ar

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Summarize the allegations against Wakefield and his co-authors From These Two Articles Below Retracted autism study an 'elabarate fraud, British journal finds (CNN)- A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an "ela lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday "elaborate fraud" that has done long e study's author, Dr. Andrew Wakeficld, An investigation published hy the British medical joumal BMJ concludes th misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases for there was "no doubt" Wakefield was responsible. med the basis of the 1998 study- - and that "It's one thing to have a bad study, a study full of error, and for the authors then to admit that th BMJ's editor-in-chief, told CNN. " create an impression that there was a link by falsifying the data." ey made errors," Fiona Godlee, But in this case, we have a very different picture of what secms to be a deliberate attemipt to Britain stripped Wakefield of his medical license in May. "Meanwhile, the damage to public health dia reporting and an ineffective response from government, researchers, journals and the medical profession," BMJ states in an editorial accompanying the work. Speaking to CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," Wakefield said his work has been "grossly distorted" and that he wa ruthless, pragmatic attcmpt to crush any attempl to investigate valid vaccine safcty concerns." s the target of "a The now-discredited paper panicked many parents and led to a sharp d prevents measles, mumps and rubella. Vaccination rates dropped sharp 2004. Measles cases have gone up sharply in the ensuing years. p in the number of children getting the vaccine that ly in Britain after its publication, falling as low as 80% by In the United States, more cases of measles were reported in 2008 than in any other year since Disease Control and Prevention. More than 90% of those infected had not been unknown, the CDC reported. 1997, according to the Centers for vaccinated or their vaccination status was "But perhaps as important as the scare's cffect on infectious disease is the energy, emotion and money that have becn diverted m efforts to understand the real causes of autism and how to help children and families who live with i" the BMI editorial states. his results in the face of criticism, and other researchers have been unable to match Wakefield has been unable to reproduce them. Mos intended to sue vaccine manufacturers -a scrious conflict of inte the prestigious journal that originally published the research, retractod Wakeficld's paper last February t of his co-authors withdrew their names from the study in 2004 after learning he had had been paid by a law firm that s on controversy, thc The series of articles launched Wednesday are investigative journalism, not results of a clinical study. The writer, BrianD said Wakefield "chiseled" the data beforc im, "falsifying medical histories of children and essentially concocting a picture, which was the picturc he was contracted to find by la to sue vaccine manufactuurers and to create a vaccine scare." According to BMJ, Wakefield received more than 435,000 pounds of the 12 cases Wakefield examined in his paper, five showed developmental problems before threc ncver had autism. lawyers. Godlee said the study shows that rcceiving the MMR vaccine and "It's always hard to explain fraud and wh was underlying this, both in terms of payments by lawyers and through legal aid grants th schemcs that he hoped would benefit him through diagnostic and other tests for autism and ere it affects people to lie in science," Godlee said. "But it does seem a financial motive cived but also through financial MMR-related issues. But Wakcfield told CNN that claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism "came from the p his paper had "nothing to do with the litigation." n the basis of their clinical symptoms, for thcir clinical nced, and they were seen by expert clinicians "These children were seen o and their disease diagnosed by them, not by me," he said.

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Dr Andrew Wakefeild was accused of presenting a research paper by altering the data & clamming that   immunisation like MMR can lead to autism in children .This lead to the deterioration of public health as more cases of Measles were reported in United state by centre of diseases control and prevention, where 90%of them were not vaccinated. Same outbreak of measles was seen in Europe and Wales too. Dr Andrew Wakefeild was also been accused for been paid or connected with a law farm which intended to sue the vaccine manufacturing company to make money .

Because of these Dr Andrew Wakefeild medical licence was been cancelled .

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