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Here are a couple culled from his Wikipedia page

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HE...

http://briandeer.com/wakefield...

Frankly I would like to see the psychopathic bastard banged up in jail for the fraud.

Not true.

His finding have been proven to be lies. And his ideas are wrong.

"the evidence that MMR increases the onset of gastrointestinal disorders i"
their is no scientific evidence of this, NONE.

You are using personal confirmation bias to come to a conlcusion, and using ad homs to dismiss the fact that you are wrong.

http://briandeer.com/solved/solved.htm

" we had our daughter vaccinated for each of the three diseases independently when she was five"
so you increased your daughters personal pain and risk for nothing? What a mean parent you are, pointlessly putting your daughter at an increased risk.

I have ripped this story up, read the study, read the court cases, looked at pretty much every part of it and following it for a decade.
I have personal interest in the accuracy of the outcome. I am well vested, and I know how to evaluate studies for their rigor and keep it separate front eh results.

" The truth is still the truth "
Agreed, now apply that to yourself.

"What is truly bordering on religious (and not in a good way)"
It never is in a good way.

"This was not a 'religious' response, it was a carefully-reasoned and appropriate measure based on the available evidence."
No, it wasn't.

The worst part is that we've known about this for at least 6 years now. Here's an article from 2004:

http://briandeer.com/mmr/st-wakefield-vaccine.htm

It's always good to see that Slashdot is firmly at the cutting edge of science and technology ...

Studies say that Jenny McCarthy says that the MMR will give you the dreaded Autism. Andrew Wakefield told me so, and his patent for a competing vaccine has nothing to do with it

So which shot is "the autism shot" you could probably ask 10 moms and 5 would tell you "MMR", even though the whole thing is obvious fraud horseshit.

I have no idea why "information" is perpetuated so quickly but "rebuttal" is so slow.

No, the MRI images the brain, it does not test for imaginary poison, that is the most idiotic thing I have read today. The ONLY study that linked Autism to vaccines was debunked, it was an obvious greed grab by a criminal, who was in fact a greedy pharma wannabee... Andrew Wakefield, the criminal fake scientist started this bullshit because he had already started the patent process for his own "safer" version of the vaccine.

People were not diagnosed before because the classification is fairly new. Because there was no industry around it, because there was no Americans with Disability act to force schools to do something for students with learning disabilities, and because our society was a little bit different. The 1980s saw a culture where "being in therapy" no longer held a stigma, and was often held in pop-culture as a positive thing, so is it any wonder that people who grew up in this new culture with a positive attitude toward psychology had their kids evaluated, whereas the people of the 1950s who grew up in a culture where mental illness was considered shameful did not?

You are right, many people were not diagnosed, at least not publicly... instead they were labeled "retarded" and shipped into group homes, or for the less "severe" they just had to deal with their differences in private.

Wakefield had a financial conflict of interest with lawyers suing HM Government

His sample size was 12

His study population were not randomly recruited

Some of the study siubjects showed signs of autism prior to their MMR vaccination

I agree, but let's get even more basic, why does public transport need to make a profit? Step back and look at the bigger picture... maybe decent public transport should be part of a civilised society *and* the spin off effects may win you lots of economic benefits as well in the long term. there are lots of core national services we accept that cost money and don't run at a profit (= we all pay a little bit to keep them going = taxes) because philosophically a majority of us have agreed that well, they are nice to have and people should get decent services. Whether that means doctors or schools or road lighting or free eye tests for pensioners...

Some countries think less stuff should run at a loss (e.g. USA) and some countries think more stuff should be supported by us all (e.g. Scandinavian social democracies). My shout is decent cheap (even free in some cases) public transport benefits us all. If you're from the UK you know that while the train system might be relatively good compared to the USA, it's an absolute overpriced mess compared to much of the rest of Western Europe for starters...

Oh, and Thatcher was evil, full stop. ;-) Could you really trust a prime minister to care about public services when she came out with statements like "there is no such thing as society" (talking to Women's Own magazine, October 31 1987).