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It wasn't just shoddy, it was fraud

By pharyngula on January 5, 2011.

The infamous Andrew Wakefield study that claimed to find a link between autism and vaccinations is still being scrutinized, and the latest investigation has uncovered evidence of faked data.

A new examination found, by comparing the reported diagnoses in the paper to hospital records, that Wakefield and colleagues altered facts about patients in their study.

The analysis, by British journalist Brian Deer, found that despite the claim in Wakefield's paper that the 12 children studied were normal until they had the MMR shot, five had previously documented developmental problems. Deer also found that all the cases were somehow misrepresented when he compared data from medical records and the children's parents.

Children died because of the hysteria fomented by the contemptible Wakefield. How does that guy live with himself?

Here's how: he's in denial. Watch Anderson Cooper call an apoplectic Wakefield a liar.

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