In an accompanying editorial, BMJ editor Fiona Godlee and colleagues called Wakefield’s study “an elaborate fraud.” They said Wakefield’s work in other journals should be examined to see if it should be retracted. Last May, Wakefield was stripped of his right to practice medicine in Britain. Many other published studies have shown no connection between the MMR vaccination and autism. But measles has surged since Wakefield’s paper was published and there are sporadic outbreaks in Europe and the U.S. In 2008, measles was deemed endemic in England and Wales.
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Vaccine-Autism Study Was Fraud - NYTimes.com Sawickipedia: This Doctor should be sent to jail considering the number of sick and likely dead children as a result of this fraud. As a parent I am sickened at how fraudulent research led thousands of parents astray. |
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