Posts Tagged ‘ scam ’
Dr. Phil Plait has long been a voice of reason in the whole anti-vaccination stink. The retraction of the paper from the Lancet led to a brilliant post; a portion you can read below. The Lancet statement is a bit bloodless… but they are a professional research journal and not a blog, so it’s not appropriate for them [ READ MORE ]
Dr. Andrew Wakefield is a physician best known for his work on autism. In 1998 he published a study in The Lancet, a peer-reviewed medical journal, which reported on twelve children with autism spectrum disorders and bowel complications and linked them to the MMR vaccine. Enter one of the biggest controversies in medical practice in decades. While [ READ MORE ]