Lancet retracts ‘utterly false’ MMR paper
Feb 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Guardian-Health
After medical council ruling last week that MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield was dishonest, journal finally quashes paper The Lancet today finally retracted the paper that sparked a crisis in MMR vaccination across the UK, following the General Medical Council’s decision that its lead author, Andrew Wakefield, had been dishonest. The medical journal’s editor, Richard Horton, told the Guardian today that he realised as soon as he read the GMC findings that the paper, published in February 1998, had to be retracted.

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