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Journalist, brian deere, who reported that this was a fraud. and the reason he s purporting it is something out of like a crime novel. he s basically saying that wakefield falsified his findings after being contracted by lawyers who were intent on bringing a class action lawsuit against vaccine companies. so wakefield is still defending his research. what we know is that nobody else has been able to repeat his findings and wakefield himself has not been able to repeat his findings. when you think about a researcher like that, what s the incentive for him to justify documents? in this case, it appears to be financial gain from what brian deere is reporting. every industry has its career, so we can t know what s going on in his mind. all we know is it appears that they were false. for the last week, you have people lining up against his findings and saying this is ....
massive fraud, but will this change the minds of many parents with autistic children? good morning, everyone. i m alex witt. welcome to msnbc saturday. we begin with an anti-american cleric back in iraq after a self-imposed exile and addressing thousands of followers this morning. after the iraq invasion of 2003, he battled u.s. forces and was responsible for the sectarian killings. al-sadr is being given a hero s welcome by his supporters. joining me from kabul, and with more on this, ali, what s the significance of al-sadr s return? reporter: it is significant. he s a powerful figure in iraq as you have seen from pictures. he has tens of thousands of adoring frenzied fans that have come to greet him after his self-imposed exile in iran. the big message was the anti-american sentiment. his speech was laced with hatred towards america, great britain and israel. he said they are the common enemy and should be fought by any means necessary. his speech was also a mix o ....
Around the world. sir, that s not true. you ve been offered the chance to replicate your study and you ve never taken anybody up on that. you ve had plenty of opportunity to replicate your study. you just accused me of giving you a falsehood. i am telling you this work has been replicated in five countries around the world. then why has it been completely discredited from health officials around the world? i suggest you to your investigation properly before making such allegations. okay? if you look up the name gonzales, if you look up creeksman, you will see the work has been replicated independently by other doctors around the worrell. they fail to mention that in these allegations and deere has not mentioned that at any time s that honest? deere says patients were recruited through anti-mmr campaigners and your study was funded for planned litigation. you did have a lawsuit against manufacturers of the mmr vaccine, didn t you? didn t you have a financial conflict of intere ....
Behind wakefield s claims. i confronted dr. wakefield earlier by skype. sir, according to this new report, not only did you do a study scientifically and ethically flawed, it was, quote, an elaborate fraud. an award winning investigative journalist brian deere has published evidence, quote, altered numerous facts to support your claims of identifying a new syndrome and that you also, quote, sought to exploit the scare among parents for financial gain. how do you respond? well, you know, i ve had to put up with this man s false allegations for many, many years. i ve written a book this is not just one man, this is published in the british medical journal. no, and i have not as yet had a chance to read that but i have read his multiple allegations on many occasions. he is a hit man, he s been brought in to take me down because they are very, very concerned about the adverse reactions to vaccines that are occurring in children. wait a minute, sir, let me ....
Have you answer questions. brian deere has talked to the parents has talked to the parents of the patients who were in your original study and he discovered that not one of the 12 cases you claim to have studied was free of, quote, misrepresentation or alteration. in no single case could the medical records be fully reconciled with the descriptions, diagnoses or histories published in the journal. some of the parents in your original study say what you claimed about their kids medical histories was not true. are those parents now lying? that is false. he has not interviewed the parents. that is absolutely not true. so you re saying no parents say that what you ve said about their children s medical histories is false? no, they don t. what i have said and what has been reported in that paper by me and my colleagues is exactly what we saw. i want to read you some of the other specifics from the report. three of nine children reported with regressive autism according to mr. dee ....