Tag Archive: Lancet

Jan 23 2012

Oh my! Esteemed Flu Vaccine Researcher Suspended For Fraud!

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Dr. Iain Stephenson, honorary consultant physician at the University Hospital of Leicester NHS Trust and a clinical senior lecturer at Leicester University, has been suspended for research fraud. According to the BMJ,  as a researcher on flu vaccines, Dr. Stephenson forged colleagues’ signatures, asked a nurse to sign a false declaration, destroyed an original log …

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Jan 16 2012

Autism researcher Wakefield was more right than we gave him credit for.

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Autism or Autism-Autism? I get that autism has a severity spectrum. I get that it’s a very scientific term, but this, “Oh, your son doesn’t have autism, he has encephalitis-induced autism-like symptoms” garbage is just pissing people off. It’s like when I tell my kids, “Pick up the Legos,” and they get all mad at me …

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