{"id":2576,"date":"2010-02-02T12:56:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T16:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2010-02-02T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T16:36:10","slug":"the-lancet-formally-retracts-controversial-paper-on-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/the-lancet-formally-retracts-controversial-paper-on-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Lancet<\/em> formally retracts controversial paper on Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a long-overdue move, British medical journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/story.html?id=2512646&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29&#038;utm_content=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Lancet<\/em><\/a> has retracted a paper by Andrew Wakefield on links between the MMR vaccine and Autism:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Lancet medical journal formally retracted a paper on Tuesday that caused a 12-year international battle over links between the three-in-one childhood MMR vaccine and autism.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, published in 1998 and written by British doctor Andrew Wakefield, suggested the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot might be linked to autism and bowel disease.<\/p>\n<p>His assertion, since widely discredited, caused one of the biggest medical rows in a generation and led to a steep drop in the number of vaccinations in the United States, Britain and other parts of Europe, prompting a rise in cases of measles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The knock-on effect of parents avoiding getting their children vaccinated creates opportunities for much more serious outbreaks of these diseases. Dr. Wakefield&#8217;s &#8220;research&#8221; has been harmful to the population at large for helping to create and exacerbate parents&#8217; fears for their children, and in encouraging them to take the greater risk of not getting the MMR (and, in many cases, other vaccinations) for their kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a long-overdue move, British medical journal The Lancet has retracted a paper by Andrew Wakefield on links between the MMR vaccine and Autism: The Lancet medical journal formally retracted a paper on Tuesday that caused a 12-year international battle over links between the three-in-one childhood MMR vaccine and autism. The paper, published in 1998 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,66],"tags":[482,39,243],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-health-science","tag-autism","tag-junkscience","tag-medicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Fy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}