Medical journal retracts flawed autism study

Medical journal retracts flawed autism study

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LONDON - A major British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease.

The retraction by The Lancet comes a day after a competing medical journal, BMJ, issued an embargoed commentary calling for The Lancet to formally retract the study. The commentary was to have been published on Wednesday.

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There have been many topics on the subject of vaccines and the etiology of autism. There has been a long standing myth that autism is caused by childhood vaccination. This has led many parents to forgo vaccination, putting their child and other children at risk. One of the original studies fueling this myth has now been retracted. This comes after ten of the 13 co-authors already renounced the study's conclusions several years ago. Evidence for the support of the original theory is seriously lacking as null results have been repeatedly found.

By all means continue to not have your children vaccinated; however, please refrain from using this paper as evidence for your arguments against vaccines.

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Sorry bud, you're a little too slow on the draw.

ATS Thread

Thread already exists, actually, this is like the fourth or fifth now.

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