Lancet retracts 'utterly false' MMR paper

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Tue Feb-02-10 12:03 PM
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Lancet retracts 'utterly false' MMR paper

The Lancet medical journal today finally retracted the paper that sparked a crisis in MMR vaccination across the UK, after the General Medical Council found that its lead author, Andrew Wakefield, had been dishonest.

Lancet editor Richard Horton told the Guardian today that he realised as soon as he read the GMC findings that the paper, published in February 1998, had to be retracted. "It was utterly clear, without any ambiguity at all, that the statements in the paper were utterly false," he said. "I feel I was deceived."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/feb/02/lancet-retracts-mmr-paper

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Tue Feb-02-10 12:44 PM
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1. I don't know how the paper passed peer review in the first place...

even without the conflict of interest, it is very flawed (small sample, no control group, etc.)

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Tue Feb-02-10 01:33 PM
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2. Wow, it only took them 12 years.

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Nye Bevan

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Tue Feb-02-10 01:40 PM
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3. An absolute scandal. I am sure that paper caused many children to die

because their parents refused to have them vaccinated.

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