Dr. Andrew Wakefield: "In 1995, mothers started calling me and saying my child was absolutely normal

Dr. Andrew Wakefield: "In 1995, mothers started calling me and saying my child was absolutely normal, and then they had a triple vaccine MMR, and they regressed into autism. I said, I know nothing about autism. I got I'm a gastroenterologist. How can I help? And they said, my child has terrible GI problems, diarrhea, wasting, failure to thrive."

"They're in pain. I know they're in pain. They've lost the ability to speak. But as their mother, I know they're in pain. And, every doctor I've spoken to has dismissed this and sent me away. And so we investigated this. And as is always the case in medicine, the parents were right. The children had intestinal inflammation. When we treated that, not only did it heal the intestinal inflammation, it made the autism better."

"And so we we pursued the vaccine issue and and and against a lot of pushback from my colleagues and the medical school and heavy investment from pharmaceutical companies, and and it turned out to be absolutely right. Right to the extent that when the CDC investigated it later in the as we reported in the film, Vaxxed, they found the data so compelling that linked MMR vaccine to autism, they had to destroy the data and to produce a paper that said something completely different."

"One of their senior scientists came forward 14 years later and said, we have done a terrible thing. We have lied, and we have put millions of children at risk of serious serious permanent neurological injury, and nothing happened. And that that that was what made me so angry at the time, Alex, and I thought there is no accountability. And from that point forward, my films were about accountability."

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