In search of equipoise.

摘要

The efforts of Wakefield and Walker-Smith to falsify data linking vaccines to childhood autism are the latest prominent misrepresentations of science as fact.2 The fraud of Wakefield and Walker-Smith epitomizes how fabricated research can lead to a domino effect of tragic consequences, characterized by patients fearing lifesaving interventions, clinicians altering practice, and scientists and governments wasting precious resources to evaluate researchers' claims.