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Thirty leading British scientists have condemned The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal, for "scare-mongering" and "desperate headline seeking," according to this report in the London Times. (Link via The Corner.)
"Under the editorship of Richard Horton, the publication of badly conducted and poorly refereed scare stories has had devastating consequences for individual and public health, in the UK and abroad, and carried a high economic cost,” read a statement signed by thirty fellows of the Royal Society, including two Nobel Laureates. In recent years The Lancet has published several controversial papers that have had to be retracted or qualified after publication, including studies purporting to show helath risks from the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and GMO potatoes.
Remember the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine scare where the vaccine was reported to cause autism. Lancet is the one that started the panic.
Because of the study published in Lancet, 4 governments examined the records of 4,000,000 children who had received the vaccine in the past. There was no link found. Zero.
Then researchers demanded to see the data behind the study: This what they found:
2 doctors had questioned 12 parents on what they thought caused autism. Eight of the parents said the cause was MMR vaccine. They answered this way probably because of coaching by the doctors. After all, this study was financed by the Trial Lawyers Association.
That's the entire study. The doctors published the paper. And Lancet published that paper as true scientific fact.
Millions of children did not get vaccinated because of Lancet. Hundreds of thousands of children got sick because of Lancet. Tens of thousands of children went blind or were born with birth defects because of Lancet.
The two doctors and the staff at Lancet should be jailed for life.
Posted by: Jake at June 18, 2005 07:04 PM