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The MMR vaccine and autism: Sensation, refutation, retraction, and fraud…
The MMR vaccine and autism: Sensation, refutation, retraction, and fraud
research case
small sample size
Findings
Vaccine
Measles, mumps and rubella
may cause autism
Wide publicity
uncontrolled design
Refuting research
Immediately after wakefield article
no causal link vaccine - autism
Retraction
10 co-authors
retracted research themselves
The Lancet
Publisher
retracted article
2010
Ethical violations
invasive investigations on children
scientific misinterpretation
selective samples
Authors
Andrew Wakefield
guitly of fraud
Funding
funded by lawyers
against pharmacists
Failed to disclose funding in article