Andrew Wakefield is a fraud!

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Not only was his study tying vaccines and autism full of BS, it now appears it was genuinely fraudulent.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40930256/ns ... al_health/

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/au ... 1&iref=BN1

Looks like he might have manipulated data to support his hypothesis.

Somehow I am completely unsurprised. Given the consequences of his fraud, is there any chance at all he'll face legal consequences?

I was just about to post this. However it's good news.

Sooner or later it comes out in the wash so to speak. This false idea of vaccines cause all of autism is a variation of false ideas like it's the fluoride in the water, food additives cause all neurological diseases from polio to Parkinson's, and the only reason for a neurological disease is a lack of megadoses of Vitamin C. Apparently some doctors can get away with the fraud for years before it is found out.

I hope his tests that show vaccines cause super powers isn't also fraudulent... I got three flu shots this year with the promise that I can fly.

It makes you wonder how many other studies have been manipulated?

Well, often times it comes clear because other scientists want to get in on the action and be the first to replicate a new, interesting study; and if they get to discredit the new, interesting study, that's practically as good (for their career and for science). So it's not so bad as it could be. Self-interest generally supports good science--it's when it doesn't that bad things like Wakefield happen.

What makes you wonder is why it took so long to discredit this Wakefield study...
This controversy has the possibility of making science look generally bad.