{"id":189089,"date":"2010-05-24T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/24\/anti-vacc-fraud-doc-gets-medical-license-pulled\/"},"modified":"2010-05-24T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T01:23:00","slug":"anti-vacc-fraud-doc-gets-medical-license-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/24\/anti-vacc-fraud-doc-gets-medical-license-pulled\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Vacc Fraud Doc Gets Medical License Pulled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Medical Council, the physicians&#8217; regulatory body in the UK, has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8695267.stm\">revoked the medical licens(c)e of Andrew Wakefield<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18954-banned-doctor-who-linked-mmr-vaccine-with-autism.html\">his colleague John Walker-Smith<\/a>, though the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> participant in the study, was exhonerated when it was determined that he stopped doing tests when he determined that they were unethical.<\/p>\n<p>The first two &#8220;doctors&#8221; subjected children to excruciating tests like lumbar puncture without any review from ethics committees,<\/p>\n<p>For a devastating cartoon version of the facts, which details how Wakefield did this because he was bought and paid for, <a href=\"http:\/\/tallguywrites.livejournal.com\/148012.html\">see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it is highly unlikely that he will get what he really deserves, which is a very long time in gaol.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=wakefield\">Earlier posts on the subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Medical Council, the physicians&#8217; regulatory body in the UK, has revoked the medical licens(c)e of Andrew Wakefield and his colleague John Walker-Smith, though the 3rd participant in the study, was exhonerated when it was determined that he stopped doing tests when he determined that they were unethical. The first two &#8220;doctors&#8221; subjected children &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1051,1074,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-hypocrisy","category-medical","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}