Brian Lehigh, of the Indiana Lehighs
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The world needs fewer Kennedys and more Brian Deers
![In November 2004, Channel 4 broadcast a one-hour Dispatches investigation by reporter Brian Deer; the Toronto Star said Deer had "produced documentary evidence that Wakefield applied for a patent on a single-jab measles vaccine before his campaign against the MMR vaccine, raising questions about his motives". 27][68][69]
In addition to Wakefield's unpublished initial patent submission, 681 Deer released a copy of the published patent application.?! On page 1, the first paragraph of this stated:
The present invention relates to a new vaccine/immunisation for the prevention and/or prophylaxis against measles virus infection and to a pharmaceutical or therapeutic composition for the treatment of IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease); particularly Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis and regressive behavioural disease (RBD).
Before describing the research in Wakefield's 1998 paper in The Lancet, at the same page this patent explicitly states that the use of the MMR vaccine causes autism:
It has now also been shown that use of the
MMR vaccine (which is taken to include live attenuated measles vaccine virus, measles virus en.wikipedia.org
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September 16, 2026 at 7:05 PM
The world needs fewer Kennedys and more Brian Deers