The Lancet retracts study on MMR & autism link.

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Lancet retracts 'utterly false' MMR paper

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. "It was utterly clear, without any ambiguity at all, that the statements in the paper were utterly false," he said. "I feel I was deceived."

Many in the scientific and medical community have been pressing for the paper, linking the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) jab to bowel disease and autism, to be quashed. But Horton said he did not have the evidence to do so before the end of the GMC investigation last Thursday.

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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, author of books on the MMR scare, said the retraction was "good news – only 10 years too late".


http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/feb/02/lancet-retracts-mmr-paper