"In fairness", he was a liar whose research was almost entirely fraudulent. He lied about a nonexistent link between MMR and autism, he lied about a nonexistent link between autism and bowel disease, and he engaged in deliberate and extensive falsification in his research. He also subjected children with autism to unnecessary and invasive medical procedures like lumbar punctures without any proper ethical approval from the institutional review board, and in the end, it was revealed that many of the children in his research did not even have inflammatory bowel disease.

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Wakefield is a scumbag who, to this day, still continues to insist that he did nothing wrong.

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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew\_Wakefield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield)