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Article: Anatomy of a Scare.(Society; SCIENCE)(link between childhood vaccines and autism)
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- Newsweek
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- March 2, 2009
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Byline: Sharon Begley; With Jeneen Interlandi
When one study linked childhood vaccines to autism, it set off a panic. The research didn't hold up, but some wounded families can't move on.
Like many people in London on that bleak February day in 1998, biochemist Nicholas Chadwick was eager to hear what the scientists would say. The Royal Free Hospital, where he was a graduate student in the lab of gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, had called a press conference to unveil the results of a new study. With flashbulbs popping, Wakefield stepped up to the bank of microphones: he and his colleagues, he said, had discovered a new syndrome that they believed ...
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Article: Doctors' leaders unite to rebut MMR fears
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July 16, 2007 ;
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... ... evidence showed no link between the MMR and autism". Dr Philip Minor ... thousands of hours investigating MMR vaccine for potential side ... were produced that show that MMR vaccine is not associated with ... Wakefield, who now works in the United States, and his colleagues would face ...
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