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===Anti-Vaccination lawyers paid 3.5 million Pound===
 
===Anti-Vaccination lawyers paid 3.5 million Pound===
Further investigation by the English newspaper ''Sunday Times'' established that Wakefield and others, prior to the publication, received up to 3.5&nbsp;million British Pound from a law firm which represented the parents of children allegedly affected. Andrew Wakefield apparently received 500,000 pound, with first payments already having been made two years prior to the publication. Five of Wakefield's co-authors and one reviewer who checked the publication for ''The Lancet'' had also received personal payments. <ref>H. Kaulen: [http://www.faz.net/s/Rub9D1EE68AC11C4C50AC3F3509F354677D/Doc~EC63B7196515B464D9C345BA3990C6991~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html Artikel in der FAZ], 8. Januar 2007</ref>
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Further investigation by the English newspaper ''Sunday Times'' established that Wakefield and others, prior to the publication, received up to 3.5&nbsp;million British Pound from a law firm which represented the parents of children allegedly affected. Andrew Wakefield apparently received 500,000 pound, with first payments already having been made two years prior to the controversial publication. Five of Wakefield's co-authors and one reviewer who checked the publication for ''The Lancet'' had also received personal payments. <ref>H. Kaulen: [http://www.faz.net/s/Rub9D1EE68AC11C4C50AC3F3509F354677D/Doc~EC63B7196515B464D9C345BA3990C6991~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html Artikel in der FAZ], 8. Januar 2007</ref>
    
As a consequence, the Gerneral Medical Council prepared legal steps to have Wakefield's medical licence revoked.<ref>Reiner Luyken: ''[http://www.zeit.de/2007/17/M-Anti-Impfkampagne?page=all Panik vor dem Piks]''. Die Zeit, 19.&nbsp;April 2007, Nr.&nbsp;17</ref>
 
As a consequence, the Gerneral Medical Council prepared legal steps to have Wakefield's medical licence revoked.<ref>Reiner Luyken: ''[http://www.zeit.de/2007/17/M-Anti-Impfkampagne?page=all Panik vor dem Piks]''. Die Zeit, 19.&nbsp;April 2007, Nr.&nbsp;17</ref>
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