By Jonathan Livingstone-Banks, University of Oxford In 1998, a now debunked study claimed that there was a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. The fiasco that surrounded this study eroded trust in science and was blamed for a drop in vaccination rates and a sharp increase in cases of measles. In circumstances like this, study results can be removed from academic journals to stop … Continue reading Retracted papers are used in clinical guidelines – how worried should we be?