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With all this hubbub about 'fake news' - 'fake science' may be even more dangerous.

• jurie 10y ago
  This has got to be how anti-vaxers obtain their "peer reviewed", "scientific" studies...
  • ocfnash 10y ago
    Unfortunately Wakefield's paper that essentially kicked off the "MMR vaccine controversy" was published by the Lancet. They eventually retracted but enormous damage was done (including deaths apparently).
    • SOLAR_FIELDS 10y ago
      For the unknowing, the Lancet was at the time this paper was published considered to be a top-tier medical journal; the equivalent of Nature or Science for medicine. I cannot speak to its prestige now, however. I'm sure that its reputation was somewhat damaged by publishing this paper but I imagine it's still considered a "good" journal.