I felt sheepish this week when I learned that Andrew Wakefield, the doctor at the centre of the MMR/autism scare, had been dismissed as “dishonest” and “irresponsible” by the GMC. Sheepish because the MMR scare was at its height when my son was very small, and I didn’t think I could forgive myself if he [...]
Posts Tagged ‘MMR’
Sheepish
Posted in Health, tagged Media, MMR on February 4, 2010 | 15 Comments »
MMR and Me
Posted in Health, tagged Media, MMR on February 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My eldest child was born in 2001 amidst all the todo about MMR, sparked by Andrew Wakefield’s paper in The Lancet in 1998. Living in affluent SW London at the time (although by no means affluent myself, sadly) I was surrounded by those who had it in their means to spurn the MMR and ‘go [...]
