A British reporter has finally gone back through the data from original "paper" that supposedly showed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism
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As a non-scientist who has worked with people with Autism for over a decade, I'm horrified at this one. Truly, it's never been agreed upon, but it's something a LOT of parents have thrown their hearts into. Except, it was supposed to be because of the mercury that is no longer in vaccines, so it's kind of irrelevant at this point, at least for newly-emerging cases, anyway.
Fake science is supposed to be stopped before it gets into journals, isn't it? That is the purpose of the peer review process of journal publication.
Well unfortunately the peer reviewers don't get paid to do it and they certainly don't get funding to try to repeat the experiments... so they only review the data presented, etc and ensure that the data provided supports the conclusions drawn in the paper. So, they wouldn't have known, for example, that Wakefield et al. ignored the conclusions of the pathologists
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Fake science is supposed to be stopped before it gets into journals, isn't it? That is the purpose of the peer review process of journal publication.
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...and otherwise healthy children with gullible parents.
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