(guardian.co.uk): The Wakefield saga, brought to an unhappy conclusion by the General Medical Council's decision to strike the doctor at the heart of the MMR-"autism" controversy off the British medical register, highlights many troubled issues in medical research: the influence of funding sources and disclosure of conflicts of interest, the role of big personalities and limited insight that may go with that, and the question of regulation, to name but a few. But none would have caused this MMR scare to run as it did had not the Lancet, the UK's most prestigious medical journal, chosen to publish Andrew Wakefield's original study associating gastrointestinal disease, MMR vaccination and developmental regression in the first place.
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