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[-] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

It was one "scientist" who by all accounts was a massive fraud and anyone with any semblance of smarts recognised that almost immediately. That the world is full of idiots is the problem.

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wakefield did manage to fool peer reviewers and got his paper published in Lancet, a top-tier medical journal (and it took them 12 years to fully retract that paper). So I wouldn't say people recognized that immediately.

(And I just kinda hate "things were better in the past" type of arguments, in general. Things were shit back then, and things are shit now.)

this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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