British medical researcher PDF
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British medical researcher PDF
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Bio-Professional Andrew WakefieldStudent Name:Student ID:Unit Name:Unit ID:1 | P a g e
Table of Contents1.0Introduction...........................................................................................................................32.0 Analysis.....................................................................................................................................33.0 Conclusion.................................................................................................................................74.0 Reference Lists..........................................................................................................................82 | P a g e
1.0IntroductionAndrew Jeremy Wakefield was a disgraced British medical researcher, who got struck offUK medical register for his fraudulent paper in 1998. In his research paper he claimed that therewas a link between mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism and boweldisease[ CITATION Bro121 \l 1033 ]. After his publication of the research paper other researcherscould not reproduce Wakefield’s findings to establish link between MMR vaccine and autism.Wakefield was born in the year 1957 to a family where his mother was general practioner andfather a neurologist. He went to become fellow of the Royal College of Surgeon after passingfrom King Edward’s School in Bath and Imperial College School of Medicine. Wakefield with12 other authors in 1998 wrote a paper regarding 12 children with autism. The paper waspublished in Lancet and established that no casual connection was proven[ CITATION God11 \l1033 ]. He called for a press conference where he asked hospitals to withdraw MMR vaccineuntil more research in the area can be conducted. His misconducted for falsified report wascriticized as ‘science by press conference’. Various news channels including BBC stressed thefact that scare regarding MMR vaccination had risen from the press conference. Followingcontroversy, Wakefield had to resign as because the research could not be established. 2.0 Analysis The research paper published by Wakefield could not be established by other researchershence was deeply criticized. Reporter Brain Deer of Sunday Times criticized Wakefield’sfinancial conflict of interest which remained to be undisclosed even when his co-authors3 | P a g e
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