Science's biggest problem

Replications are an issue. Retractions might be worse.

Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 study linking vaccines with autism was riddled with holes. All 12 children involved were handpicked, which is antithetical to clinical research. The now-disbarred physician falsified pediatric results cited in the research. Wakefield used microscopic-level stains to make his case; a more reliable molecular method found no evidenc…