And you know, the money they are being paid by outside interests to publish their lies. And the money they will receive by using their lies to pursue sham legal action:
https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/Lancet/extras/statement20Feb2004web.pdf
That the results eventually reported in the 1998 Lancet paper were passed to lawyers and used to justify the multi-party legal action prior to publication, a fact that was not disclosed to the editors of The Lancet.
That Dr Wakefield received £55 000 from the Legal Aid Board to conduct this pilot project and that, since there was a substantial overlap of children in both the Legal Aid Board funded pilot project and the Lancet paper, this was a financial conflict of interest that should have been declared to the editors and his co-authors and was not.
And all he had to do was subject some innocent children to "highly invasive" procedures without ethical approval. There's another term for in the medical community for sticking needles in patients without their consent or approval. It's called assault. This man assaulted children for his own financial gain.
He definitely sounds like an honest, stand-up guy. Someone whose opinion you could definitely put a "high value" on.