SchaeferAutismReport: Vaccine-Autism Scare: Researcher Who Started It All Falsified Data?

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In 1998, a study in the medical journal

Lancet claimed to have found a link between childhood vaccines and

autism. Though the piece was formally retracted

last July, popular belief in the vaccine-autism connection persists

(and parents have resisted immunizing their children as a result). Now,

a new article

and editorial published

in the British Medical Journal argues that the original study's author,

Dr. Wakefield, may have deliberately falsified data in his

research in an "elaborate fraud

.." In his study, Wakefield found implicit evidence that vaccines for

measles, mumps and rubella caused autism in children, which led to

skepticism among parents about vaccinating their children for these

diseases and inspiring celebrities like McCarthy to openly question

"all credible research on what does and does not cause autism and

whether it can be treated."

The BMJ's new editorial asserts

that their investigation found "clear evidence" that Wakefield

deliberately falsified evidence in his original study. Could it have

been an honest mistake? "No. A great deal of thought and effort must

have gone into drafting the paper to achieve the results he wanted: the

discrepancies all led in one direction; misreporting was gross," the

BMJ editors find. Here's how the British Medical Journal's assertions

are rippling through the media:

* In His Defense

Wakefield responds

to the BMJ's claims through CNN, saying that "he has been the target of

'a ruthless, pragmatic attempt to crush any attempt to investigate

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