The trouble with a 'scientific' argument, of course, is that it is not made in the real world, but in a laboratory by an unimaginative academic relying solely on empirical facts.

um....

You can make your own Turin Shroud. Simply don't wash and don't change your bedding for a few months. Hey Presto! Your bottom sheet will look like a shroud.
- Bert Baxter, Worcs, UK, 17/12/2009 8:13

The Foreign Service reporter should be sacked.
- Anne, West Midlands, 17/12/2009 22:24
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Cue tides of anti-vaxers and their internet acquired scientific knowledge.......
- ZedsDeadBed, Truro, UK, 28/1/2010 15:53
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I watched an interview with this guy and he during that particular interview, he never told people to stop using the MMR. As I remember it he asked for 2 things:

1) Clinical research be carried out, instead of relying just on statistical research.
2) Let those parents who preferred the single jabs (privately?) be allowed to have them.

My children had the MMR even after I watched this programme. He didn't put me off. All he'd said was that he'd sat with parents who were convinced that the MMR had caused their children's autism and he felt that their concerns were worthy of investigation.

It was the govt's overbearing threatening reaction and subsequent witch hunt of Dr Wakefield that made people mistrust the MMR.

Most of all Tony Blair's refusal to say whether Leo had had the MMR was a key factor.

Citing family privacy is ok for things he left to individual choice, but not for something he was bullying everybody else into.
- isabella, london, 28/1/2010 15:59
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I’m wondering how the Mail plan to spin this one?

Today's ruling will fuel fears that Dr Wakefield has been the victim of a sustained witch-hunt