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The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine
JamJam writes "The Lancet, a major British medical journal, has retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease. British surgeon and medical researcher Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues originally released their study in 1998. Since then 10 of Wakefield's 13 co-authors have renounced the study's conclusions and The Lancet has said it should never have published the research. Wakefield now faces being stripped of his right to practice medicine in Britain. The vaccine-autism debate should now end."
Why should you not believe Wakefield?
And this is different from global warming how?
(1) Wakefield performed at least some parts of his study in an unethical manner.
Deleting data in response to Freedom of Information requests, "losing" documentation on weather sites in China that revealed the huge impact of urbanization on temperature, redefining "peer-reviewed journals" whenever critical studies were published.
(2) Subsequent to the publication of this study, other researchers have tried to duplicate Wakefield's results but nobody has succeeded in doing so.
It's impossible for anyone to duplicate results when the data has been deleted and the models used to predict global warming are kept under wraps.
(3) Wakefield is not a disinterested party; he has received a great deal of money from those who stand to profit from his conclusions.
NASA GISS scientist James Hansen received $720,000 from the "Open Society Institute".
(4) Various circumstances [including (2) and (3) above] have caused others in the medical community to suspect Wakefield of fraud related to this "study".
Hmm....
Jenny McCarthy is NOT fat.