"Three months later, Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register, due in part to his deliberate falsification of research published in The Lancet,[18] and was barred from practising medicine in the UK.[19] In a related legal decision, a British court held that "[t]here is now no respectable body of opinion which supports [Mr. Wakefield's] hypothesis, that MMR vaccine and autism/enterocolitis are causally linked".[20] Wakefield has continued to defend his research and conclusions, saying there was no fraud, hoax or profit motive.[21][22][23] In 2016, Wakefield directed the anti-vaccination film Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe."
