Anti-Vax Study Retracted by The Lancet

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Health • Tue Feb 2, 2010 at 1:09 pm PST • Views: 402

British medical journal The Lancet has officially retracted the study they published in 1998 that began the still-spreading anti-vaccination craziness.

Britain’s General Medical Council has issued a ruling as well, calling the research done by Dr. Andrew Wakefield for his discredited study linking MMR vaccine to autism “callous, unethical, and dishonest.”

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 Frank says:

Children are naive -- they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.