Andrew Wakefield

Birthday: 9/3/1956
Place of birth: Eton, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Fame for: Directing
Also known as: Andrew Jeremy Wakefield, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Andrew Wakefield M.D.

Biography

Andrew Jeremy Wakefield is a British former physician and academic who was struck off the medical register due to his involvement in the Lancet MMR autism fraud, a 1998 study that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. He has subsequently become known for anti-vaccination activism. Publicity around the 1998 study caused a sharp decline in vaccination uptake, leading to a number of outbreaks of measles around the world. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia