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Helen Salisbury: Trust and truth telling

BMJ 2019; 366 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5477 (Published 10 September 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;366:l5477

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Re: Helen Salisbury: Trust and truth telling

Helen Salisbury [1] (and Solomon Wong [2]) perhaps ought to take note that when the core charges - which were brought collectively against all three doctors in the “Wakefield” hearing - were appealed by the senior author of the Lancet paper Prof Walker-Smith in the High Court he was completely exonerated: the accusations that the paper was based on a Legal Aid Protocol, that there had been unauthorised clinical investigations, and that the order of referral had been misrepresented were all dismissed [3].

I hope that any doctor when dealing with patients or their relatives would be alive to the possibility of vaccine injury [4,5,6]: that is also a matter of trust.

Let us be evidence based [2].

[1] Helen Salisbury, 'HelenSalisbury: Trust and truth telling',
BMJ 2019; 366 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5477 (Published 10 September 2019)
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[2] Solomon K Wong, 'Evidence based politics', 18 September 2018, https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5477/rr

[3] John Stone, 'Re: A tale of two vaccines and the "spectre of Andrew Wakefield"', 22 October 2018, https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4152/rr-22

[4] John Stone, 'SPEAKING UP FOR PATIENT SAFETY: World Health Organization Patient Safety Day and Vaccines' 17 September 2019, https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5576/rr

[5] Noel Thomas, 'Re: The test of time', 17 September 2019, https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5506/rr-2

[6] Christopher Exley, 'An aluminium adjuvant in a vaccine is an acute exposure to aluminium', Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, Available on-line 18 September 2019, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0946672X19304201?via%...

Competing interests: No competing interests

20 September 2019
John Stone
UK Editor
AgeofAutism.com
London N22