Secrets of the MMR scare. The Lancet's two days to bury bad news.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Exploring the Development of Vaccine Platforms, With a Particular Focus on the COVID-19 Pandemic.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026
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2. Studying Public Perception about Vaccination: A Sentiment Analysis of Tweets.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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3. Pseudoscience in medicine: cautionary recommendations.African health sciences · 2019
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4. MMR vaccine and autism: vaccine nihilism and postmodern science.Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2011
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5. The MMR vaccine and autism: Sensation, refutation, retraction, and fraud.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2011
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6. "I've heard some things that scare me". Responding with empathy to parents' fears of vaccinations.Missouri medicine
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Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Assuring research integrity in the wake of Wakefield.2011
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  MMR scare. The BMJ's measly editorial policies.2011
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  MMR scare. Are the GMC, news media, and BMJ the right tribunals?2011

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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