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)
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