Media Advisory

News Conference

What:

1) On Wednesday 6th May 2009 a formal complaint will be filed with the General Medical

Council of the UK against four senior doctors, all highly regarded members of the UK

medical establishment. It is alleged, and supported by documentary evidence, that Dr.

Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, Dr. David Salisbury of the Dept. of Health,

Professor Arie Zuckerman, former Dean of the Medical School, Royal Free Hospital,

and Dr. Michael Pegg, Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Royal Free gave false

testimony on oath in the GMC hearings involving Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Professor

John Walker-Smith, and Professor Simon Murch.

2) At the same time parents of 4 children involved in the original Lancet study, on which the

major allegations have been based, will make public statements regarding the GMC

hearings.

When: Wednesday May 6, 2009

Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm

Where: The Kingsway Hall Hotel, 66 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5BX,

www.kingswayhall.co.uk

Who: U.S. attorney James Moody, director of U.S. charities Safe Minds and the National

Autistic Association, acting on behalf of 13 American and British autism organisations, states:

“Dr. Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, Dr. David Salisbury of the Dept. of Health,

Professor Arie Zuckerman, former Dean of the Medical School at the Royal Free

Hospital, and Dr. Michael Pegg, Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Royal Free, should

be investigated for supplying false testimony. Furthermore, the current GMC hearing

against Drs. Wakefield. Murch and Walker-Smith should be terminated. This

unwarranted attack on scientists and doctors who came to the aid of desperately ill

children has deterred others from helping similarly affected children, and distracted

attention from the public health crisis caused by the substantial rise in autism

diagnoses.”

Three families representing four of the 12 children included in the original Lancet

publication will speak out publicly for the first time about the GMC hearings to clarify the

details of their childrens’ involvement in the case series, and express their families’ support

of the doctors they consider to be wrongly under investigation by the GMC. A letter from

the families to the GMC expressing support of the doctors being investigated will be read

by those who are able to be present.

Contact: James Moody - autismandvax@aol.com; tel: 001 202-298-4766.