Peter Parry wrote:
Andrew Wakefield has today been struck off the medical register for
serious professional misconduct . The GMC said he acted in a way that
was dishonest, misleading and irresponsible and that there were
"multiple separate instances of serious professional misconduct".


In somewhat related news, Dr. Mary Jean Brown has NOT been struck off
the medical register and was NOT removed from her position despite
egregious scientific fraud harming thousands of children and adults in
Washington, DC. Specifically, this Chief of the Lead Poisoning
Prevention at CDC intentionally lied about - what else? - lead
contamination of tap water.

"the CDC paper analyzed the blood of children and adults living with
lead levels in their tap water 20 times the amount raising concern --
and said not one was suffering from elevated lead. Brown and her
co-authors knew, however, that most of those tested had been drinking
*bottled* or *filtered* water before their blood was analyzed."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...rss=rss_nation

That just demonstrates that such punishments do not necessarily
have anything to do with professional misconduct.