{"id":1299,"date":"2011-01-06T09:47:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T17:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2011-01-06T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T17:47:50","slug":"anti-vaccination-pure-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Vaccination = Pure Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/HEALTH\/01\/05\/autism.vaccines\/\">this<\/a> will be the final nail in the coffin of the anti-vaxxers.  Turns out that the original study linking vaccinations to autism was not merely shoddy or erroneous, but <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/HEALTH\/01\/05\/autism.vaccines\/\">out and out fraud<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study&#8217;s author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study &#8212; and that there was &#8220;no doubt&#8221; Wakefield was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s one thing to have a bad study, a study full of error, and for the authors then to admit that they made errors,&#8221; Fiona Godlee, BMJ&#8217;s editor-in-chief, told CNN. &#8220;But in this case, we have a very different picture of what seems to be a deliberate attempt to create an impression that there was a link by falsifying the data.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully this will be the final nail in the coffin of the anti-vaxxers. Turns out that the original study linking vaccinations to autism was not merely shoddy or erroneous, but out and out fraud: An investigation published by the British medical journal BMJ concludes the study&#8217;s author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1299\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anti-Vaccination = Pure Fraud&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-space","tag-anti-vaccination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}