Finally Vindicated: Dr. Andrew Wakefield Was Right All Along

Autism was so rare when Dr. Andrew Wakefield went to medical school that he was not taught about it. Yet today, decades later, one in 31 children has autism. In 1998, as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr. Wakefield, whose specialty was inflammatory bowel disease, co-authored a paper published in The Lancet that documented 12 healthy children who—following the onset of gastrointestinal problems shortly after MMR vaccination—regressed into autism. The research team included specialists in psychiatry, histopathology, radiology, and gastroenterology. Their conclusions were cautiously measured and not provocative. They identified a form of enterocolitis potentially associated with neuropsychiatric dysfunction, noting that, in most cases, the devastating symptoms followed MMR immunization. As good doctors, they, of course, called for further study. That’s it. Nonetheless, as it turned out, Wakefield had spoken up at the wrong time, and, for decades, he and his observations were vilified. But, thankfully, not anymore.

So what was going on at the time that caused such backlash against a doctor simply looking after his patients? Remember, Dr. Wakefield, a senior researcher in medicine and histopathology at the Royal Free Hospital, was listening to the parents of young children, no less. For starters, the UK government had just announced a nationwide MMR rollout at the same time that Dr. Wakefield had called for caution. Concerned for what he was seeing in his young patients, and as one of the most principled doctors out there, Wakefield had noted that, in medicine, the way that human disease syndromes are first discovered is by “really listening to the patient’s story, followed by a detailed physical examination of the patient, and then investigations that are indicated by the story that you’ve heard and what you’ve found clinically.” After that, subsequent hypothesis-testing studies determine whether the story holds up, whether it was purely coincidental and unrelated, or whether it involved a coherent sequence of events. Clearly, Dr. Wakefield saw cause for concern in these children. Speaking recently to Nick Hulscher, Wakefield explained:

“So the parents came and they said ‘my child regressed having been perfectly normal after an MMR vaccine’ in many cases.”

What mother and father wouldn’t want that devastating turn of events—a noticeable regression in their child’s skills—thoroughly investigated by a devoted doctor? In fact, there was such cause for concern that these children were blessed to have Dr. Wakefield in their corner, as it wasn’t just two events and then back to normal. Instead, an observed sequence of events was observed: the child received the vaccine, then had a fever, and may have had a seizure or become unresponsive for a period of time or may have had a generalized epileptic seizure. And, following that, the children were never entirely the same again, gradually declining, losing skill after skill over a period of time, into what was then diagnosed as autism. Again, as noted, Dr. Wakefield knew very little about autism at the time.

Essentially, the case series shared the clinical story of a group of patients—in this case, autistic children with gastric problems—with a constellation of signs and symptoms that linked them together and led to the discovery of a novel bowel disease. Yet rather than heralding the discovery of an actual, treatable problem that could benefit these children and others suffering from similar health issues, Wakefield’s work became a hotly debated controversy, and his reputation was systematically smeared. And we know “why”—which is the bigger problem. Indeed, Wakefield’s reputation was deliberately ruined because a significant part of the patients’ story involved regression following MMR vaccination. In 2010, Wakefield lost his license and was labeled a fraud and cast as the face of “anti-vax” extremism. Speaking about that situation, Wakefield remarked:

“… If those children had regressed after natural chickenpox, you and I would not be sitting here now. But they didn’t. They regressed after a vaccine.

… [to be prepared for the inevitable backlash from the vaccine industry] I decided that I was going to review all of the safety studies about measles and measles-containing vaccines because if I was going to challenge the status quo and say things that might have an adverse effect on vaccine uptake, I had to know what I was talking about.

So I read all the papers, and I was absolutely appalled with the quality of the safety studies of the single [measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines], and the combined MMR vaccine in particular.”

As noted in an interview with Dr. Mercola in 2010, Wakefield’s research led him to write a 250-page report concluding that he could not support the use of the combined three-in-one MMR vaccine because it simply was not safe. Specifically, at a press conference in February 1998, Dr. Wakefield recommended using single vaccines as a precaution, which was something parents in the UK could still choose at the time. But by September of that same year, that option was quietly stripped away. The UK government had pulled the import license for the single measles vaccine, leaving families with a forced choice of either accepting the combined MMR shot or missing vaccination altogether. There was no middle ground and no informed consent. Sound familiar?

The CDC engaged in a 14 yr cover up of the fact that age is crucial with the MMR shot.

They knew autism rates dropped dramatically if it was given after 3yrs of age.

As Andrew Wakefield points out –

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— Kat A 🌸 (@SaiKate108) November 9, 2025

Predictably, many parents hesitated, and vaccination rates dipped. Measles cases rose, but instead of admitting that removing the choice of single vaccination had consequences, those chasing greed and power (we all know who they are, thanks to their tyrannical pandemic and mass injection campaign) pointed the finger at Wakefield. He was cast as the villain and as the reason why children weren’t getting vaccinated. They weren’t ruining his reputation because he raised legitimate safety questions or because parents wanted more time and better options. But the fact that they shunned these two points is criminal. Still, they ruined his reputation because that narrative served their agenda. It is easier to blame one man for their negligence than to face the system’s failure to protect science, patients, and choice, and lose billions in the process.

Thankfully, here we are today, and the McCullough Foundation has just released a brilliant landmark autism report that has overturned 25 years of lies. Their study, titled ‘McCullough Foundation Report: Determinants of Autism Spectrum Disorder,’ published on October 27, 2025, finally exonerates Dr. Wakefield after decades of relentless attacks against him for exposing very real vaccine risks. Indeed, Dr. Andrew Wakefield was right all along. No one is more deserving, and we couldn’t be prouder.