>I think there have been discussions here previously about vaccines, and >while there might well be some people, especially children, who can have >difficulty with multiple vaccines, the issue of vaccination causing autism >is particularly fear-inducing. But the 1998 'study' has been judged >fraudulent:
This wasn't discussed here, to my knowledge, but it was discussed fairly extensively at the Culture list. There was a partial retraction 8 years ago, and a strong retraction, which included a letter signed by either every other author but the first author or every other one but him and one or two others within the last month. The partial retraction was over the general conclusion, the big retraction was after the fraud was fairly well established. The Lancet, in my book, has published other studies that were questionable from the beginning. For example, they published a study on US induced deaths in Iraq that found that a quarter of the population of Faluja had died due to the early fighting (early was first 1.5 years or so). When this was found to clearly be wrong, instead of checking their methodology, they just dropped the obviously wrong data, called it something to look at later, and published the rest. That is bad science. The cell phone causes cancer publications are similar. One group constantly finds a correlation that's unrepeatable when others do extensive tests. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and not attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
