Medicine and the media: MMR: the scare stories are back.

Goldacre B.

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Medicine and the media: MMR: the scare stories are back.

Goldacre B.

A UK newspaper has once again linked autism with MMR and sparked a spate of media scaremongering. But the original story was wrong on every count, writes Ben Goldacre

Original publication

DOI

10.1136/bmj.39280.447419.59

Type

Journal article

Journal

BMJ

Publication Date

21/07/2007

Volume

335

Pages

126 - 127

Keywords

Autistic Disorder, Child, Data Collection, Humans, Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine, Newspapers as Topic, Prevalence