The New York Post Spells it out …
The media gave big headlines to this week’s stories on a prestigious British medical publication’s retraction of an article that had claimed to show a causal link between standard childhood vaccinations (measles, mumps and rubella) and autism.
Yet the coverage of the Lancet affair didn’t truly convey the outrageousness of the original publication or the gravity of its consequences — consequences long festering, since the paper was published not last week but 12 years ago.
Arguably the liberals Junk Science craze started with DDT, next up was the CFCs and the Ozone Hole, apples with ALAR, and now the fraud of man-made global warming.
