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The Lancet ' s editor-in-chief Richard Horton described it as "utterly false" and said that the journal had been deceived. [ 49 ] The Hansard text for 16 March 2010 reported [ 74 ] Lord McColl asking the Government whether it had plans to recover legal aid money paid to the experts in connection with the measles, mumps and rubella/measles and ...
On 2 February 2010, The Lancet formally retracted Wakefield's 1998 paper. [94] [95] [96] The retraction states: "The claims in the original paper that children were 'consecutively referred' and that investigations were 'approved' by the local ethics committee have been proven to be false." [18]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 November 2024. "MMR vaccine fraud" redirects here. For more about the The Lancet article that was published in 1998, see Lancet MMR autism fraud. False claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism Part of a series on Alternative medicine General information Alternative medicine History ...
Early last year, The Lancet retracted the study by the now disgraced former British doctor Andrew Wakefield. And last week, ...
Facts are facts: Numerous studies have shown that vaccines do not cause autism and, in 2010, The Lancet retracted the study by Andrew Wakefield that helped popularize the myth.
A Lancet review on Handling of Scientific Misconduct in Scandinavian countries gave examples of policy definitions. In Denmark, scientific misconduct is defined as "intention[al] negligence leading to fabrication of the scientific message or a false credit or emphasis given to a scientist", and in Sweden as "intention[al] distortion of the ...
A discredited study that set off a flurry of interest in using an antimalarial drug to treat COVID-19 has now been formally withdrawn. A scientific journal on Tuesday retracted the March 2020 ...
The idea of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism came to prominence after the publication of a paper by Andrew Wakefield and others in The Lancet in 1998. This paper, which was retracted in 2010 and whose publication led to Wakefield being struck off the United Kingdom medical register , has been described as "the most damaging medical ...