Promoting Public Trust in Medical Research by Reevaluating Flawed Papers finds a CANDOR Study

ATLANTA, April 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — What can scientists do to improve the public trust of research published in medical journals? Errors resulting in bad recommendations by researchers in papers published in medical journals have been a problem for decades. The author of a well-known paper published in 1998 by Lancet concluded that vaccination caused autism. Investigators found analytical errors and data falsification in the paper. Since then, many studies have found no evidence of a causal link between vaccination and autism. But unfortunately, even 25 years later, people believe that vaccination can result in autism and refuse to let…