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3catwoman3

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9. IIRC, Wakefield did not retract the study.

Reply to dlk (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 28, 2019, 08:09 PM

Mar 2019

The Lancet medical journal did, and the 11 other researchers recanted, saying they had been wrong.

Wakefield still has lots of followers. Lives in the US now.

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