Coming up on Dateline Sunday:
NBC
News' Matt Lauer takes an unprecedented look at the emotional debate
surrounding vaccines and the suggested link to autism. Lauer speaks
exclusively with Dr. Andrew Wakefield, whose 1998 medical study was the
first in the world to suggest a possible link between the MMR vaccine
and autism. The British doctor has since influenced the lives and
stirred the passions of millions of parents worldwide looking to solve
the mystery of what causes the complex developmental disorder.
But Dr. Wakefield's theories have also raised
serious questions from the media and the medical community. Lauer
interviews investigative journalist Brian Deer, who wrote a critical
report for London's Sunday Times in 2004 detailing what he said were
potential conflicts of interest that Dr. Wakefield had never revealed.
Lauer also talks with Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatrician at Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia and expert on vaccines who has spoken out on
behalf of vaccine safety in the United States.
Now, Dr. Wakefield reacts to his harshest critics on the controversy that began
over a decade ago.
Lauer also reports on Dr. Wakefield's most
recent work in the United States and the medical community's continuing
search for the cause of autism, including new studies from researchers
working to understand the disorder that affects 1 in 150 American
children.
See "A Dose of Controversy" at 7 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. CT on Dateline Sunday.
Jim Matiya
Florida Gulf Coast University
jmat...@fgcu.edu
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