Andrew Wakefield sues BMJ for claiming MMR study was fraudulent
Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who was struck off the medical register after triggering a health scare linking autism to the MMR vaccine, is suing the editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal for defamation.
In a complaint filed to a district court in Texas, lawyers acting for Wakefield claim that articles, editorials and other statements that appeared in the BMJ were "false and make defamatory allegations" about the doctor.
The lawsuit names Fiona Godlee, the BMJ's editor-in-chief, and the British investigative journalist Brian Deer, who has covered the controversy over the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, which led to a drop in MMR vaccination rates to dangerous levels.
Documents filed with the court say the action arises in part from the publication in January 2011 of an article by Deer in the BMJ titled "Secrets of the MMR scare: how the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed" and an accompanying editorial by Godlee.
full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/05/andrew-wakefield-sues-bmj-mmr
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at least in our courts. One would surely hope the same in G. Britain. That man (I refuse to honor him with the term "doctor"
has done more to harm childhood public health efforts and worldwide efforts to reduce or eliminate measles, mumps and rubella (not to mention pertussis, but that issue is a bit more complicated), than anyone else. He is a fraud. Come and sue me, big boy. 
