What happens when false scientific data is published in a top medical Journal

Learn more about the MMR Vaccination scare:

Why did it take so long for the top medical journal is the UK, the Lancet, to withdraw an article by Dr. Wakefield?  Dr Wakefield, a bowel specialist,  suggested a link between MMR Vaccination and autism.  The original study was published in the Lancet in 1998.

Top five facts about the Lancet article and the Wakefield Study:

1. the Wakefield investigation could not be repeated.  A valid science study must be able to be repeated.
2. the study involved only 12 subjects.  While this might be fine if it was an early stage investigation, twelve is too small a sample to conclude that the MMR vaccination causes autism.  Twelve as a sample size is too small to be statistically valid.
3. Eight (8) of the 12 mothers in the study suggested that Autism developed 2 weeks after their child was vaccination.  In fact the test subjects were exhibiting autism traits 24 months before the MMR vaccination was given.
4. Dr. Wakefield contacted the 12 subjects two years before he did his investigation and recruited these families to participate in his “research”.  
5. Dr. Wakefield was paid by lawyers to promote the MMR Vaccination scare.

Learn more about vaccinations:

Vaccinations are not drugs – they are real chemicals.  Vaccinations stimulate an immune response.

Vaccinations are given to people who have no symptoms of a disease.