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By: CBS News Throws Its Hat Into Antivax Ring | Miscellanea Agnostica

CBS News Throws Its Hat Into Antivax Ring | Miscellanea Agnostica — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:54:50 +0000

[...] after the antivax movement has been demonstrated to be pseudomedicine, and after a number of outlets have formally retracted their prior involvement in it, CBS News has [...]

By: Salon Formally Retracts 2005 Antivax Story By RFK Jr | Miscellanea Agnostica

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:02:24 +0000

[...] a year ago, the British medical journal Lancet retracted an article it published, back in 1998, which linked autism with the MMR vaccine. The Wakefield study was known [...]

By: Antivax Study An “Elaborate Fraud” | Miscellanea Agnostica

Antivax Study An “Elaborate Fraud” | Miscellanea Agnostica — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:08:03 +0000

[...] I blogged just under a year ago that the prestigious Lancet retracted a study it had published in 1998, by Dr Andrew Wakefield, which laid the foundations for the anti-vaccine movement. CNN reports, though, that a BMJ investigation into that study has revealed it’s worse than being just bad science — it was an outright fraud (WebCite cached article): [...]