February 9, 2009

Dramatic new allegations of data falsification in the Times (U.K.) against British antivaccine crusader Andrew Wakefield, who, unbeknownst to many, had an ax to grind when he sounded the (now-debunked) alarm against the MMR shot: he was working with personal injury lawyers hoping to build a case against the vaccine manufacturers. (Mike Dunford, Orac, David Bernstein @ Volokh)