Posts tagged: Lancet

Autism, MMR and the consequences of misguided science.

authorwendyg | Saturday, 6 February, 2010

The news this week that The Lancet has retracted Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 paper claiming to have found a link between autism and the MMR vaccine is satisfying in the sense that the mills of science may grind exceeding slow but they grind exceeding small. Science – the process of peer review, of establishing the truth by attempting to replicate results independently – works.
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