Former Medical Officer Chief: MMR Vaccine Fears Coming True
A former UK Government medical officer responsible for deciding whether medicines are safe has accused the government of "utterly inexplicable complacency" over the MMR triple vaccine for children. Dr. Peter Fletcher, who was Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health, said that if it is proved that the jab causes autism then "the refusal by governments to evaluate the risks properly will make this one of the greatest scandals in medical history." After agreeing to be an expert witness on drug-safety tries for parents' lawyers, he received and studied thousands of documents related to the case which he believed the pubic had a right to see. He said he has seen a "steady accumulation of evidence" from scientists world-wide that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab is causing brain damage in susceptible children. But he added: "There are very powerful people in positions of great authority in Britain and elsewhere who have stake