Another antivaccine paper bites the dust

This article has been withdrawn at the request of the Editor-in-Chief due to serious concerns regarding the scientific soundness of the article. Review by the Editor-in-Chief and evaluation by outside experts, confirmed that the methodology is seriously flawed, and the claims that the article makes are unjustified. As an international peer-reviewed journal we believe it is our duty to withdraw the article from further circulation, and to notify the community of this issue.Why is it that the University of British Columbia and its Department of Ophthalmology (which is the department where Shaw and Tomljenovic are based) put up with crap like this? Shaw must have tenure or pictures of the Dean having an affair. I can ' t think of any other reasons why he isn ' t long gone.Ultimately the article was republished in a form that was nearly word-for-word identical version in an inferior journal. Such is the fate of antivaccine pseudoscience. It always comes back. That ' s why I liken it to zombies, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Chucky, or any other monsters that " die " at the end of one movie, only to inevitably reappear in a new sequel over and over and over again.I have little doubt that Shaw and Tomljenovic ' s soon-to-be retracted paper will reappear somewhere else within a few months. It ' s what antivaccine scientists publishing dubious or even fraudulent research to promote the long discredited idea that vaccines cause autism do. Their pseudoscience never die...

Source: Respectful Insolence - October 10, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: oracknows Source Type: blogs