It is still bad for you...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... utism.html

...unbelievable

Well, you say new, I say article from 2002

But it really would not surprise me that the Mail would publish a new anti-MMR story with all that's happening in Wales

Fucking hell. That can't be from today, can it? Late on it refers to Wakefield's research as 'last year'.

It's not just the mail

http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2 ... -and-press

shame on the independent

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we'll need a chopper and the nuclear bomb squad

That's a different issue. The Indy stupidly published Wakefield's PR and failed to Fisk it, the Mail have got a (new?) story about supposed new research backing Wakefield up.

Does anyone have Ben Goldacre's take?

There's no date on that story, but if you put a sentence from it into the search, it gives a date of 2002.

Top right - it says today. Maybe that results from the search being today?

Got a comment past the mods yesterday.
Government dismisses claim by disgraced MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield that health officials are responsible for measles outbreak

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Sick Left-wing Zealot.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z2QSwpbLyH
That was in 2002, so it is indeed an old article.

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

Apologies, I thought the date at the top right was the publication date...


Carry on

That has fooled many, many people...

Yep, I got fooled by a Winterval article a while back. It had a minor update which changed the date on it

Not that the mail would care anyway. A few page views from frantically worried parents serves their commercial agenda. Od even less concern to them is the health of Welsh children who cannot vote Tory and probably never would.

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Brigate di Transizione

There was a professor from Southampton (?) University who was interviewed on BBC Breakfast on, I think Saturday, and he was talking about the ages affected by the measles outbreak in Swansea being between 10 and 17 and blamed the MMR link to autism. He also, and forcefully, blamed the Mail for its campaign against MMR that carried on way after other media agreed that Wakefield was wrong. He also inferred that the repetition of a falsehood imprints itself on the national psyche that is difficult to shake off. Dacre's drip?

Surely "Doctor" Wakefield is just known as Mr Wakefield now he's been struck off?


Edit: The pic on that NS article has just made my BP go through the roof. A "nurse" draws up an MMR vaccination. NAil varnish, rings and bangles everywhere. Tut tut tut. She's be shot at my workplace for being dressed like that for clinical practice. (I know it's just a stock image).