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Holy retraction, Batman

By Becky Jungbauer | February 2nd 2010 04:12 PM | Print | E-mail

Becky Jungbauer

Sorry to take the wind out of your sales, parents who use Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper on MMR vaccine as the cause of their child's autism. Here are three related stories in the news:

BBC

Bloomberg

Reuters

The paper has since been discredited, but it took Lancet 12 years to fully retract the paper. Better late than never, I suppose...although tell that to the kids that got the measles.

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