Much damage done by bogus vaccine-autism link

 

Published: January 21, 2011

It was 1998 when a medical journal published an article that terrified parents into shunning immunizations meant to protect children from potentially deadly disease. The journal eventually retracted part of the article and some of the study’s co-authors distanced themselves from the research.

Now the British Medical Journal has gone even further, calling the original research and findings a deliberate fraud. An inves...


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