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Nature 427, 765 (26 February 2004) | doi:10.1038/427765a
Media attack prompts editorial backlash against MMR study
Jim Giles
A leading medical journal has taken the unusual step of distancing itself from one of its own papers and attacking its findings.Editors at The Lancet launched a pre-emptive media strike on 18 February after learning that The Sunday Times was investigating undeclared conflicts of interest in a 1998 paper linking autism with the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.
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