{"id":582,"date":"2010-02-03T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2010\/02\/lancet-retracts-vaccineautism.html"},"modified":"2010-02-03T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:41:10","slug":"lancet-retracts-vaccineautism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2010\/02\/lancet-retracts-vaccineautism.html","title":{"rendered":"Lancet retracts vaccine\/autism study"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is great news for public health – esteemed medical journal The Lancet<\/em> has formally retracted a contentious 1998 paper<\/a> that asserted a link between vaccines and autism:<\/p>\n

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The Lancet medical journal formally retracted a paper Tuesday that caused a 12-year international battle over links between autism and the childhood vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.<\/p>\n

The paper, written by British doctor Andrew Wakefield, suggests that the combined shot might be linked to autism and bowel disease.<\/p>\n

His assertion, now widely discredited, caused one of the biggest medical rows in a generation and led to a steep drop in vaccinations in the United States, Britain and other parts of Europe, prompting a rise in measles cases.<\/p>\n

“It has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield . . . are incorrect,” the British journal said in a statement.<\/p>\n

(…) A disciplinary panel of Britain’s General Medical Council, or GMC, ruled last week that Wakefield had presented his research in an “irresponsible and dishonest” way and shown a “callous disregard” for the suffering of the children he studied.<\/p>\n

(…) Data released last February for England and Wales showed a 70 percent surge of measles cases from 2007 to 2008, mostly because of unvaccinated children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This should be the final nail in the coffin for the vaccine-deniers who have literally caused thousands of deaths by scaring parents from vaccinating their children.<\/p>\n

Related: Ars Technica has a really good discussion<\/a> with more details if you are interested. The bottom line: vaccinate your kids<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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