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The Mawson “vaxed/unvaxed” study retraction: The antivaccine movement reacts with tears of unfathomable sadness

In the course of just a couple days, a pair of atrociously incompetent studies by Andrew Wakefield fanboy Anthony Mawson were published and retracted by a predatory open access publisher. Surveying the reactions of antivaccine activists, I can’t help but conclude that their tears of unfathomable sadness are delicious.

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A boatload of fail: Were two horrendously bad zombie “vaxed/antivaxed” studies retracted—again?

Yesterday, Orac made a rare oversight. He missed an antivaccine study that’s risen from the dead once again after having been retracted. He is more than happy to correct that oversight here and now by applying some Insolence to the second study as well and to express amusement that it appears that both studies have been retracted yet again.

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A horrendously bad “vaxed/unvaxed” study rises from the dead yet again

Antivaccine “studies” never die. They always return to promote disease among children.

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Autism Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Another zombie antivaccine study rises from the grave

Antivaccine studies never die, even if they are retracted. They rise to kill again.

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Antivaccinationists promote a bogus internet “survey.” Hilarity ensues as it’s retracted.

I don’t have many “rules” per se about blogging, but one informal rule that I do live by is that I never blog about a study if all I can access is the abstract. In general, I insist on having the complete study before I will blog it, because to me the abstract isn’t enough. […]