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Lancet Retracts Autism Study
, 02 02nd, 2010
Last week we posted on the guilty verdict of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the man who had headed a study over a decade ago that linked autism with MMR vaccination. Earlier today there was more breaking autism news, as the Lancet medical journal officially retracted the paper by Dr. Wakefield and his colleagues. In lieu of the recent controversy, ten of the 13 authors who had worked on the original study redacted its conclusions.
The retraction comes after a regulator looked into the methodology that was used in amassing the study’s data. Although Dr. Wakefield has been found guilty in the case, the retraction only looked at how the research was conducted, not whether the study was correct or not—though the Lancet did refer to the research as “false.” Since its original publication, a litany of medical experts has rejected the findings of the study and state the MMR vaccinations are not a cause of autism.
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