Pharyngula discusses the latest antics of disgraced Andrew Wakefield:
I just gotta post this again from 2010 that explains the background behind the fall of Wakefield and the problems of scientific illiteracy in the media:
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
Science-Based Medicine has a rather comprehensive article regarding Andrew Wakefield and the fraud of the MMR vaccine scare:
Other background information here from May 2010:
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011
The Quackometer article “The Society of Homeopaths, Richard Barr and MMR” explains the unethical behaviours of The Society of Homeopaths. I’d even call these behaviours immoral.
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2010
I cannot quite believe that Andrew Wakefield lodged a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission regarding a Sunday Times article written by Brian Deer.
Reading the blog at http://holfordwatch.info/2009/03/16/andrew-wakefield-lodges-complaint-about-brian-deer-with-press-complaints-commission/, it’s clear to me that Andrew Wakefield should take full responsibility for his actions. Perhaps then he can start the recovery process to become fully rehabilitated into the scientific community, but looking at his rack record I somehow doubt that he will change. Perhaps he thinks that he will be considered a martyr by his adoring "followers". But it’s a sad story. And the media are not blameless themselves for feeding the MMR scare stories.
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2009
Thanks to a couple of blogs I was brought up to date on the silly antics of LBC and their harassment of Ben Goldacre.
Ben Goldacre’s badscience article provides a lot of information and also I gotta thank DC’s Improbable Science article for a reminder.
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