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A U.K. medical regulator revoked the license of the doctor who first suggested a link between vaccines and autism and spurred a long-running, heated debate over vaccine safety.
Ending a nearly three-year hearing, Britain's General Medical Council found Andrew Wakefield guilty of "serious professional misconduct" in the way he carried out his research in the late 1990s. The council struck his name from the U.K.'s medical register.
The same body had concluded in January that Dr. Wakefield's research was flawed, saying he had presented his work in an "irresponsible and dishonest" way and shown "callous disregard" for the children in his study.
Still Crazy Uncle Joe after all these years.