This page is material from the award-winning investigation by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London, with spin-offs for a UK TV network and a top medical journal, which exposed vaccine research cheat Andrew Wakefield | Summary | Read the book

Fudenberg and the medical board

Among Brian Deer’s findings was that Andrew Wakefield had filed patent claims for a vaccine and a possible “complete cure” for autism, based on a fringe theory of “transfer factors”.

His collaborator and “co-inventor” was the late Hugh Fudenberg, who claimed in a 2004 interview with Deer to cure autistic children with his own bone marrow. He said he rolled this out in a sheet, three cells deep, on his kitchen table in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Here’s Fudenberg’s record with the South Carolina board of medical examiners. In November 1995, he was banned indefinitely from prescribing – a worrying picture for the Royal Free medical school in London, which, before hosting the launch of the anti-MMR campaign in 1998, was (according to Wakefield) waiting on Fudenberg’s “business plan”.

Hugh Fudenberg document

Hugh Fudenberg document

Hugh Fudenberg document

Hugh Fudenberg document

Hugh Fudenberg document

Hugh Fudenberg document

Hugh Fudenberg document

Hugh Fudenberg document

Hugh Fudenberg document

Hugh Fudenberg document

Hugh Fudenberg document

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