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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The real lessons of the MMR debacle
It was a widespread mood of anxiety and hostility to reason that allowed an insubstantial figure like Andrew Wakefield to have such an impact.
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| Tuesday 25 May 2010 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Censorship is not the answer to health scares
The only way to challenge the pseudoscience of Andrew Wakefield and others is to have more debate, not less.
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| Monday 1 March 2010 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Turning a blind Eye to the truth
Private Eye’s feeble apology for its support for Dr Andrew Wakefield reminds us of the media’s uncritical complicity in the MMR-autism theory.
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| Tuesday 2 February 2010 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The war on Dr Wakefield: only 12 years too late
Yes, Dr Andrew Wakefield’s MMR-autism theory was dishonest, but he’s not the only one to blame for the great vaccine scare of the past 12 years.
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| Thursday 5 November 2009 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Autism: moving beyond the quest for a cure
The author of Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion challenges both those who want to cure and those who want to celebrate autism.
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| Tuesday 15 September 2009 |
Sandy Starr
Are we all autistic now?
Lumping Mozart and Einstein in with those who have severe socialisation problems is no help to sufferers or science.
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| Monday 11 May 2009 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Asking questions is
not an ‘Inquisition’
When Michael Fitzpatrick criticised the Autism File he was branded a ‘backwoods doctor’ who should shut up. Why?
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| Tuesday 14 April 2009 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
An open letter to Gordon Brown
If you want to help families affected by autism, you shouldn’t be inviting Polly Tommey to No.10.
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| Monday 6 April 2009 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
It’s time to stop this ‘miracle cure’ madness
In his speech to the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick said the ‘war on autism’ is dehumanising people with the condition.
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| Monday 23 February 2009 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
MMR-autism scare: the truth is out at last
The ‘vaccine court’ in the United States, and its excellent expert witnesses, have finally slain and buried MMR junk science.
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| Tuesday 10 February 2009 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The MMR scare: from foolishness to fraud?
The latest shocking revelations about Dr Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet paper suggest there was more to it than skewed science.
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| Friday 23 January 2009 |
Helene Guldberg
‘Autistic children are now seen as a burden’
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick talks about how raising an autistic child is made infinitely harder by the charlatans waging the ‘war on autism’.
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| Thursday 4 December 2008 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
False prophets in the ‘crusade against autism’
The author of Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion exposes the powerful quackery movement offering dodgy ‘cures’ for autism.
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| Monday 24 November 2008 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The ghost of the ‘refrigerator mother’
The author of Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion challenges the quackery and religiosity of the ‘crusade against autism’.
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| Wednesday 29 October 2008 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
‘Crusade against autism’: doing more harm than good
The author of the new book Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion asks why autism has sidelined even Joe the Plumber in the US election.
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| Monday 31 March 2008 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
I’m backing Boris for London mayor
Where Ken Livingstone cynically postured against MMR, risking the health of London’s children, Boris Johnson at least defended the vaccine.
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| Friday 1 February 2008 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The rise and fall of anti-MMR mania
Journalists once fawned over ‘brave’, ‘glossy-haired’ anti-MMR crusaders; now they denounce them as quacks. What happened?
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| Monday 3 September 2007 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Measles: the bitter results of a rash panic
When middle-class parents turn their noses up at the MMR vaccine, it increases the risk of disease for everyone's children - especially those in poorer families.
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| Tuesday 17 July 2007 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The dark art of the MMR-autism panic
As Andrew Wakefield appears at the GMC, spiked traces the efforts of a shabby scaremongering caravanserai to continue peddling a panic.
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| Wednesday 4 July 2007 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
‘The MMR-autism theory? There’s nothing in it’
Michael Fitzpatrick talks to Stephen Bustin, whose devastating testimony in a US court demolished the last shred of evidence against vaccines.
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