Andrew Wakefield was the “OG” protecting children and he was right, all along
We are so pleased to share this Substack article from Dr. Tess Lawrie. Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been a friend of Age of Autism since our inception. His work, mentioned in Mothering Magazine more than 20 years ago, started many of us thinking, worrying, and learning. He has never turned his back on our kids. The Johnnie Come latelys (and we do appreciate them) can thank Andrew J. Wakefield for paving the road OUT of hell.
Thank you to Laura Hayes for sharing this article with me.
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By Tess Lawrie
Dr Andrew Wakefield was right all along
His research on vaccine harms was “just the beginning”. Was an “ethically challenged man” recruited to keep him quiet?
Do you believe in coincidences?
Last month I received an email from Mrs Bridget Wakefield, Dr Andrew Wakefield’s mother. It turned out she lives in Bath, my hometown, birthplace of a Better Way and just a stone’s throw from the World Council for Health offices! She asked whether we could meet.
There were all sorts of things going round in my head as I set off on foot to find Mrs Wakefield. Who was she? What did she want from me? How had she weathered the longstanding and relentless demonisation of her son I wondered?
A spritely though frail Mrs Wakefield greeted me with a warm smile. We fell into easy conversation right away and I learned that she is now 93 years old, a former doctor, a mother of five, and a grandmother. In her working years, Bridget used her maiden name and was know as Dr Bridget Matthews when she was practicing as a general practitioner in Bath and the surrounding county of Gloucestershire. Bath was Bridget’s hometown and she felt lucky to be appointed to a single handed practice at the Royal Crescent as a young GP. With her wealth of medical experience, we discussed what being a GP meant in the “old days”. Very hands on, Bridget had especially enjoyed doing home visits and home deliveries, which was commonplace not so long ago.
Andrew’s father, Dr Graham Wakefield, was a Consultant Neurologist at University College Hosptial in London but gave this up to come to Bath so that the family could be together after a two year period of only being together at weekends. Winning a sought after position out of 26 applicants, Dr Graham Wakefield worked at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, where incidentally I still hold an honorary contract, and with the Neurosurgical Center at Bristol’s Frenchay Hospital. According to Mrs Wakefield, they had 50 really happy years in Bath.
Andrew is their second born and Mrs Wakefield told me that he had been Head Boy at Kind Edwards School in Bath, and Rugby Captain too. He was one of those children that just got on with things and never gave his parents any cause for concern. To the contrary, they were always tremendously proud of him. This resonated with me. I too was an all-rounder – conscientious, academically at ease, sporty, squash captain, never gave my parents any trouble, etc – and so I suddenly, curiously, felt like I knew him. How hard it must have been for this mother and father, both dedicated and well-respected doctors, when their beloved son was accused of professional misconduct.
A report from Andrew’s school rugby coach said the following: Under his captaincy the side has been very successful. He set a superb example on and off the field of discipline, sportsmanship and attitude and I can only thank him most sincerely. One of the best I’ve known, and certainly of the best that King Edward’s School has produced.
What was Dr Andrew Wakefield’s “crime”?
In 1998 Dr Andrew Wakefield, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and a senior researcher in the University Departments of Medicine and Histopathology at the Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine published a paper in the Lancet with his colleagues entitled: Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children.
Dr Wakefield’s special interest was inflammatory bowel disease and this paper reported a case series of 12 children with developmental disorders whose mothers also described a constellation of bowel symptoms appearing shortly after their child’s vaccination.
Wakefield’s co-authors included specialist physicians in psychiatry, histopathology, radiology and gastroenterology. After carefully documenting their research findings in the paper, the investigators cautiously concluded: “We have identified a chronic enterocolitis in children that may be related to neuropsychiatric dysfunction. In most cases, onset of symptoms was after measles, mumps, and rubella immunisation. Further investigations are needed to examine this syndrome and it’s possible relation to this vaccine.”
Read more at Tess Lawrie’s Substack HERE.
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