The British doctor who first raised allegations that research was needed regarding whether a certain vaccine might cause autism in some children cannot sue in Texas over British articles that were critical of his work, according to a recent ruling by the Third Court of Appeals in Austin.
Dr. Andrew J. Wakefield authored a 1998 article in a medical journal that “concerns the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and its alleged connection to the development of autism in young children,” explained the Third Court opinion in Wakefield v. British Medical Journal Publishing Group. He sued three British defendants over 2011 articles about “how the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed,” about how Wakefield’s article was “fraudulent” and about “the fraud behind the MMR scare,” noted the opinion.
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