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Originally Posted by pressld2  ........
There is much talk of Andrew Wakefield's research being discredited but has it really? I remember reading that he had not been completely open about who was funding his research but I have never seen, in any media, anyone suggesting that he faked evidence or that his methodology was flawed. Of course this could just be another example of the media having a field day with the original scare story and not bothering with the "it was all a panic over nothing, weren't we silly to get you all worked up" story. I don't know.
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Dave P. |
I think there were indeed serious flaws in his methodology, lack of controls, small sample size and so on..
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh appraises Andrew Wakefield et al
and yes you can't disprove (or prove) it but larger, well designed, better controlled research projects have failed to find any data to support his conclusions.