What follows is a guest post from Dan Cummins, of Foley, Cognetti, Comerford, Cimini & Cummins in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His Tort Talk Blog is rapidly becoming required reading for Pennsylvania tort defense lawyers. Dan participated in the case he discusses as amicus curiae for the Pennsylvania Defense Institute. Dan gets all the credit, and all the blame, for this post.

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The BBC is reporting that the British Medical Journal Lancet has issued a full retraction of the notorious 1998 article that claimed there was an increased risk of autism associated with use of the MMR vaccine. Among the grounds for the retraction: the lead author “was in the pay of solicitors who were acting for parents who believed their children had been harmed by MMR” and that author “was ruled last week to have broken research rules.”
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