Thursday, January 6, 2011

Autism Study a Fraud

Study Linking Vaccines to Autism Is "Fraudulent"


By Alice Park Thursday, January 6, 2011 

It's unfortunate but true that sometimes the hard facts of science don't turn out to be so grounded in reality after all. Scientific fraud is certainly not new, but manipulation of medical data is always troubling, and potentially deadly, for the public.

That's the case with a controversial 1998 paper published in the Lancet by Andrew Wakefield, a former intestinal specialist at Royal Free Hospital in London. This week, the editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) penned a commentary calling the study “an elaborate fraud,” and accompanied the charge with an in-depth study exposing apparent manipulations of the data by Wakefield to bolster his argument that the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine was linked to autism

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1 comment:

  1. Rivki SilverJanuary 9, 2011 at 2:57 PM

    Hello, I just saw this and posted on FB! My husband, an internist, is always bothered by this non-vaccinating movement, as he points out that the only reason those children who do not receive vaccines remain healthy is because the rest of the population continues to vaccinate. Thoughts to ponder.

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