Anti-vax quack Andrew Wakefield meets with Trump

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14. A British medical panel concluded otherwise and Lancet retracted the article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/health/research/03lancet.html

A British medical panel concluded last week that Dr. Wakefield had been dishonest, violated basic research ethics rules and showed a “callous disregard” for the suffering of children involved in his research. Dr. Richard Horton, editor in chief of The Lancet, said that until that decision, he had no proof that Dr. Wakefield’s 1998 paper was deceptive.

“That was a damning indictment of Andrew Wakefield and his research,” Dr. Horton said.

With that decision, Dr. Horton said he could retract the 1998 paper. Dr. Wakefield could not be reached for comment.

One can argue about what constitutes actual "fraud" but a reasonable person can conclude that this is it based on the finding of the medical panel. And the fact that you would talk about the "pro-vaccine crowd playing fast and loose with the facts" raises the question of just who is playing fast and loose with the facts here. "Pro-vaccine crowd" meaning the people who insist on following the science rather than the claims of a discredited researcher who has had his medical credentials revoked?