It began again in 1998 when Andrew Wakefield revealed the now infamously fabricated examine within the journal Lancet linking vaccines to autism. That paper was absolutely retracted in 2010. However you possibly can't hold a nasty concept down for lengthy.
Earlier this yr, researchers based mostly in Israel revealed a examine within the journal Vaccine that claimed to discover a hyperlink between the vaccine for the human papillomavirus (HPV) and behavioral points, in mice. The paper was positioned on-line in January prematurely of print publication in a difficulty of the journal. The anti-vaccine crowd promptly jumped on it as extra proof of the risks of vaccines. [5 Dangerous Vaccine Myths]
However the editors of Vaccine retracted the article inside a month, saying within the retraction discover that "the methodology is critically flawed, and the claims that the article makes are unjustified." Makes you marvel why they accepted the paper within the first place?
In the meantime, in November 2016, the journal Frontiers in Public Well being provisionally accepted a paper linking vaccines to autism and different neurological issues. The examine included on-line questionnaires to 415 moms of home-schooled kids, a bunch that tends to have robust (unfavorable) emotions about vaccines. The journal has since eliminated the summary from its website. The information web site Motherboard decided that the examine was funded principally by actress Jenny McCarthy's autism consciousness nonprofit, Technology Rescue, which has robust (unfavorable) emotions about vaccines.
Though you possibly can not discover these two research, you possibly can nonetheless discover individuals commenting on them as if they're actual. Perhaps that is all that issues in a post-truth world.
Observe Christopher Wanjek @wanjekfor day by day tweets on well being and science with a humorous edge. Wanjek is the creator of "Meals at Work" and "Dangerous Drugs." His column, Dangerous Drugs, seems usually on Dwell Science.
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