Good luck Andy. May truth and justice prevail!

Correction - I fraudulently misrepresented the Hipocritic Oath there.
Should read as follows.

HYPOCRITIC OATH:
"“First do no harm to the profitability of the medical profession”.

(Sorry.)

The BMJ lost all credibility with myself back in 2003 when the published the "obituary" of David Horrobin (nicely timed just after his wife had become a widow) which they subsequently were forced to retract. The BMJ subsequently modified their rapid response pages to be much harder to read, so as to cover up the embarassment (and ditto more recently).

Indeed John. I wonder to what extent people interested in the Wakefield case are aware of just how typical it is of the history of the medical establishment. Again and again, countless instances occur of a person being character-assassinated for either:
(a) discovering/promoting a treatment that actually works better than the establishment one;
or
(b) showing that the medical establishment have been the cause of some problem.
There's a video online, called "cancer the forbidden cures", which gives some idea of the forces any "offenders" are up against. However, a factor that may have sufficiently changed the balance of power is the introduction of the internet web which undermines the information stranglehold - to some extent.

I think Dr Wakefield overestimates the evidence re MMR, and particularly is mistaken in the notion that it has been a significant cause of the autism increase. But being wrong about the science is never a crime let alone warranting a campaign of deceitful character-assasination. Those who attack him are even more wrong about the science anyway, such as the NHS et al still pretending the autism increase has not even happened, and nastily misleading its victims away from the only valuable treatment options.
I hope AW wins this case - the appeal arguments look very well-argued to me - and the deceitocracy gets due egg on its face. Deer and ("bad science") Co have had a nerve in taunting him that if he was right he should sue for libel, but ironically now that he has done just that, they try to prevent it being heard!

Best wishes . I hope justice prevails .

Thank you, Dr. Wakefield, for your honesty and efforts to research the truth.

Good luck to Dr. Andrew Wakefield!

From one of the many Irish parents who would never have known what triggered the increase in Autism / Crohn's disease and Ulcerative colitis in Irish children if Dr. Wakefield had not spoken out about his research linking this to the MMR vaccine.

Mairéad Hilliard

I wish you strength and success Dr.Wakefield.

How preposterous! How can it be that British Medical Journal, with its US edition doesn't think it does business in the US's second largest state, and seems to have persuaded a judge of it? Or is it the US citizenship and seven years residence in Texas doesn't qualify AW?

May justice prevail!

I would like to know who is paying for Brian Deer's lawyer.

May justice finally be served. Best wishes for a positive outcome. Thank you for maintaining your courage and ethics through everything.

Reading Deer's brief is like listening to Jodi Arias testify: the man is incapable of telling the truth. For instance, his brief says: "Within two weeks of Deer’s Sunday Times reports, ten of Wakefield’s twelve Lancet co-authors retracted their claim to have found a temporal link between the MMR vaccine and the onset of symptoms."

No! They let the temporal link stand.

Here's what the Lancet authors actually say: "We wish to make it clear that in this paper no causal link was established between MMR vaccine and autism as the data were insufficient. However, the possibility of such a link was raised and consequent events have had major implications for public health. In view of this, we consider that now is the appropriate time that we should together formally retract the interpretation placed upon these findings, according to precedent."

The authors reiterate what was stated in the Lancet paper itself: data were insufficient to establish a *causal* link. (And it's clear from their letter that a causal link is still a possibility no matter how inconvenient a shitstorm they may be finding themselves in.)

Good Luck Dr Wakefield. May truth and justice prevail.

I will put this in my prayers - every day.
Good luck. Surely God will be standing at your right shoulder that day -- with a room full of angels too.

I hope the judge does the right thing. Somebody needs to hold thugs like them accountable for their deceit.

Good luck, appreciate all your support for Autism!

Best of Luck, Andy we are all behind you..

Best of luck Dr. Wakefield!

Good luck Andy! You are in our prayers! You deserve to be vindicated!!

Good luck, Andy!