“The programme conflates ideas and events in a way that ‘inappropriately indicates Dr Wakefield to be more reasonable and thoughtful than the history would suggest’.”
A letter from an unnamed former colleague of Andrew Wakefield, the doctor whose claims sparked the MMR/autism scare, asking the UK TV channel Five not to broadcast the docudrama it has made (The Guardian, London, 3 December)
“If I am a scientist working in an NIH lab and I get a lot of money in consulting fees, then I’m going to want to make sure that the company does very well.”
Arnold Relman, former…
