NEW : ' Andrew Wakefield says his work has been ` ` grossly distorted '' British magazine BMJ accuses Wakefield of gender bias for his 1998 paper . ` Wakefield 's defenders include David Kirby , a journalist who has written extensively on autism . ` The damage to public health ' '' as a result of the autism - vaccine controversy . The paper was retracted and Wakefield lost his job in 2010 .
NEW : ' Andrew Wakefield says his work has been ` ` grossly distorted '' British magazine BMJ accuses Wakefield of gender bias for his 1998 paper . ` ` The damage to public health ' '' as a result of the autism - vaccine controversy . The paper was retracted and Wakefield lost his job in 2010 .