Talk:Andrew Wakefield
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Test kits?
"Wakefield reportedly stood to earn up to $43 million per year selling test kits."
Test kits for what? Autism? Fleas? Jellybeans? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.253 (talk) 22:00, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
- What test kits and where is the source for reaching the estimate of such a huge profit? YorickJenkins (talk) 17:27, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
- According to the ref from Washington Post adjacent to the first instance of the phrase "test kit" in the article, ....
- "Wakefield and his associates predicted they could make more than $43 million a year from diagnostic kits alone for a condition he argued affected autistic children dubbed "austistic enterocolitis," according to one 35-page document." ....
- You could have done this yourself, took me about a minute, because the Wayback Machine was slow.
- You are welcome. - Roxy the dog 17:51, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 21 April 2025
Script error: No such module "protected edit request". I note there is no citation regarding the claim of Wakefield's research causing "deaths" in paragraph 2 of the lead section. I suggest either entering a link that proves this or putting a note in saying citation needed as many other articles have on Wikipedia. Onlytalkingsense (talk) 10:47, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
- per MOS:LEDECITE we don't always put citations for noncontroversial statements as long as they are sufficiently sourced elsewhere in the article. Plenty of sources in the article already address deaths from decreased vaccination rates Cannolis (talk) 11:49, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
- Per Cannolis; there is extensive sourcing in the section Andrew Wakefield#Epidemics, effects, and reception. Wikipedia's house style tends to discourage citations in the lead section - which ought to be a clear and brief summary of the article which follows - as long as the information there is clearly and thoroughly cited in the article body. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 11:55, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 3 May 2025
In this article, the claim is made that the study was of 12 autistic children, but I've read the paper since its retraction as well as writings by Brian Deer, and only 9 children were claimed to be autistic, of which three were actually allistic. Could this more accurate information please be put into the main article?