The Lancet's full retraction of the 1998 Wakefield et al. 12-child case series, issued after the GMC Fitness to Practise Panel's January 28, 2010 findings. The retraction states that the paper's claims of consecutive referral and ethics-committee approval were proven false.
Following the judgment of the UK General Medical Council's Fitness to Practise Panel on Jan. 28, 2010… In particular, the claims in the original paper that children were 'consecutively referred' and that investigations were 'approved' by the local ethics committee have been proven to be false. Therefore we fully retract this paper from the published record.
p. 445 (vol. 375)
The Lancet's full retraction of the 1998 Wakefield et al. 12-child case series, issued after the GMC Fitness to Practise Panel's January 28, 2010 findings. The retraction states that the paper's claims of consecutive referral and ethics-committee approval were proven false.