Andrew wakefield biography

Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956) is a British fraudster, discredited academic, anti-vaccine activist, and former physician.
Andrew Wakefield's War On Vaccines: I Looked on Immunisation as an Example of Modern Living and Progress and Then Came Andrew Wakefield.
Dr Andrew Wakefield, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCPath, is an academic gastroenterologist.

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Andrew Wakefield

British former doctor (born 1956)

Andrew Wakefield
Wakefield at an anti-vaccine rally in Warsaw, Poland, in June 2019
Born	Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (1956-09-03) 3 September 1956 (age 68) Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England
Education	King Edward's School, Bath
Alma mater	St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London
Occupation(s)	Former physician, anti-vaccination activist
Known for	Lancet MMR autism fraud
Spouse(s)	Carmel, m. 32 years, divorced^{[citation needed]}
Partner	Elle Macpherson (2017–2019)^[1]^[2]
Children	4^{[citation needed]}

Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956)^[3]^[4]^[a] is a British fraudster, discredited academic, anti-vaccine activist, and former physician.

Wakefield was struck off the medical register for his involvement in The Lancet MMR autism fraud, a 1998 study that fraudulently claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. The pu

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Books: long read: The Doctor Who Fooled The World. Andrew Wakefield’s War On Vaccines

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‘If he believed in something, he would have gone to the ends of the earth to go on believing.’ (from an interview with Wakefield’s mother, pg. 370)
‘Can one person change the world? Ask Andrew Wakefield.’
(extract from an editorial in The New Indian Express, pg. 5)

When I started primary school in a class of 30 there were four of my companions who had callipers and two of them were given chunkier pencils. When my GP gave me a sugar lump on which he had put some liquid, neither he nor my mum told me it was to stop getting polio and it was years later I put the callipers and the sugar lump together.

I trusted my GP because he was gentle when he looked in my ears and in the early sixties I cannot remember moaning too much when, with my mum, I stood in a long queue extending no less than 8 detached houses up the street, waiting to see my GP standing with his sleeves rolled up at the door to his one-roomed surgery. He scratched my arm in front of a flickering blue

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Dr.AndrewWakefield

Divinity School Dean & Professor of New Testament & Greek

Lewis Edward and Martha Barnes Tyner Chair of Bible

Biography

Andy Wakefield joined the faculty of Campbell University Divinity School in 1997. He earned his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University, Master of Divinity from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University. Andy has held the Lewis Edward and Martha Barnes Tyner Endowed Chair of Biblical Studies since 2008, and in 2010 he was named Dean of Campbell University Divinity School.

Andy’s primary academic focus has been on the letters of Paul and, more recently, on the book of Revelation. Over the past 27 years, he has taught not only in the areas of New Testament and Greek, but also in preaching, leadership, technology and ministry, and spiritual formation. As Dean, he has continued to teach one class per semester. At the end of May, 2025, Andy will step down from his administrative role and resume the role of full-time faculty member.

Throughout his service to the university