A 1998 paper linking autism to vaccines, which triggered a panic about the vaccination of children continues today, was based on falsification of data, according to a survey conducted by a journalist British Medical Journal ( BMJ ) has spent years reviewing research original. In a harsh editorial that called the paper "fraudulent" BMJ editors recommend other publications of the main author, gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, be examined because "past experience tells us that misconduct research is rarely isolated behavior. "
the survey, by journalist Brian Deer, focuses on allegations of medical records of changes for the 12 children in the study. Among other things, it loads that preexisting symptoms the children had been "minimized" to build a case that they had a serious reaction to the measles-mumps-rubella. Medical "folders can not be reconciled with what was published" in the Lancet journal where the study was published, kite written in what is billed as the first of a series in BMJ .
the report is another strike against research already retracted, which was led by Wakefield. A 02 study failed to reproduce the results; British General Medical Council has spent 2.5 years of education and a year ago concluded that the conduct of Wakefield was "dishonest" and "misleading". The Lancet retracted the paper and Wakefield lost his license to practice medicine in the UK.
While the latest allegations go further, it is unclear what practical impact they will have. An anti-vaccine activist who co-founded one of the most vocal groups that links autism to vaccines, Generation Rescue, took on CNN waves yesterday when the BMJ investigation was released, to defend link and argues that other studies have reported. "To represent that science has been done about it and we should spend is simply untrue," said JB Handley. It seems that for now, little can change.
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