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SciWriteLabs #6: BMJ editor Fiona Godlee on the Wakefield-MMR fiasco, the problems with peer review, and research oversight boards

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: November 10, 2011
Category: Media, Science, SciWriteLabs, Vaccine safety | Tagged Andrew Wakefield, Ben Goldacre, Brian Deer, British Medical Journal, Daily Mail, David Lewis, Ingvar Bjarnason, measles, Melanie Phillips, MMR, Molecular Pathology, nature, Pace University, paul offit, Peer review, Private Eye, research oversight boards, Richard Horton, Royal Free Hospital, The Lancet, The Panic Virus, University College London | Leave a comment
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