Talk:Andrew Wakefield

Some good may have come out of it.
After making the topic a hot potato that few would touch some 40+ researchers have taken the trouble to investigate the idea of a link of some sort between autism and the gut microbiome and have come away convinced.

Andrews research may have been inadequate to draw conclusions but the correlation does seems to be there.

Multi-level analysis of the gut-brain axis shows autism spectrum disorder-associated molecular and microbial profiles Idyllic press (talk) 12:00, 31 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Err, Wakefield did not research the microbiome, he researched the effects of vaccination. Very much not the same thing. The Nature paper never claims a link between vaccination and autism.
 * If he did research microbiome, there were no conflict of interest, so one of the pillars for him being struck from the medical profession would not have been there. tgeorgescu (talk) 18:23, 31 January 2024 (UTC)


 * much more than a correlation! 2A00:23C8:9F93:FB01:7960:7958:3808:9509 (talk) 21:34, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Vaccination as a cause of autism — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C8:9F93:FB01:7960:7958:3808:9509 (talk) 21:45, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

This article is too long and contains too many quotes
The article desperately needs to be condensed down to something that an average reader might read. It's nearly impossible to find what you're looking for. For example, the lede calls him anti-vaccination, so it should be easy to find a summary of his stance on vaccination in this article. For instance, is he opposed to all vaccination or just MMR? That's the kind of thing that belongs in an encyclopedia, but instead we are given endless indented quotes and tons of needless material that more correctly belongs on the separate page for Lancet MMR autism fraud. Bueller 007 (talk) 15:55, 29 May 2024 (UTC)