Andrew Wakefield

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 antivaccination 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