{"id":558,"date":"2011-01-09T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=558"},"modified":"2011-01-09T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T17:01:31","slug":"retracted-autism-study-an-elaborate-fraud-british-journal-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Retracted autism study an &#8216;elaborate fraud&#8217;, British journal finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/HEALTH\/01\/05\/autism.vaccines\/index.html\">cnn.com: Retracted autism study an &#8216;elaborate fraud,&#8217; British journal finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/news\/world_news\/retracted_study_linking_autism_to_vaccines_was_an_elaborate_fraud_by_doctor_british_medical_journal_reports\">digg.com: Retracted study linking autism to vaccines was an &#8216;elaborate fraud&#8217; by doctor, British &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study&#8217;s author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study &#8212; and that there was &#8220;no doubt&#8221; Wakefield was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s one thing to have a bad study, a study full of error, and for the authors then to admit that they made errors,&#8221; Fiona Godlee, BMJ&#8217;s editor-in-chief, told CNN. &#8220;But in this case, we have a very different picture of what seems to be a deliberate attempt to create an impression that there was a link by falsifying the data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Britain stripped Wakefield of his medical license in May. &#8220;Meanwhile, the damage to public health continues, fueled by unbalanced media reporting and an ineffective response from government, researchers, journals and the medical profession,&#8221; BMJ states in an editorial accompanying the work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cnn.com: Retracted autism study an &#8216;elaborate fraud,&#8217; British journal finds Via: digg.com: Retracted study linking autism to vaccines was an &#8216;elaborate fraud&#8217; by doctor, British &#8230; An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study&#8217;s author, Dr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=558\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medecine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}