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Dateline February, 2010. The premier, usually reliable British medical journal Lancet has announced the retraction of the journal’s publication of the influential 1998 Andrew Wakefield article which purported to show a definite link in 12 children who had received MMR vaccine and their subsequent diagnosis of autism.
Lancet, which has retracted relatively few published studies in its 186-year history, acted following a report by a panel of the UK General Medical Council, which after a 2½-year review accused Wakefield and two colleagues of “dishonesty and irresponsibility” in the conduct of their research. Fiona Godlee, editor of BMJ (The British Medical Journal) applauded the Lancet retraction, stating that “this will help to restore faith in this globally important vaccine and in …
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