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Editors should not be propagandists
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Correspondence to Dr H Marcovitch, Clinical Risk, RSM Press Ltd, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE, UK; h.marcovitch@btinternet.com
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Perspective on the paper by Hilton et al (see page 831)
Nobody doubts that the flawed paper on non-specific colitis and pervasive developmental disorder in children1 provoked a public health crisis and increased the risk for children in the UK of contracting measles. In this month’s journal, a group of social and public health scientists examine the response to the paper by several journals likely to be read by those responsible for providing advice to individual families regarding immunisation.2 They conclude that the journals "missed opportunities to accurately inform practitioners about the evidence" and seemingly preferred to "stand back and wait for consensus to develop".
Should the editors of the magazines Health Visitor, Community Practitioner, Practice Nurse, Nursing Standard and Pulse as well as the combined peer-reviewed medical journal and magazine BMJ accept that they failed their readers? I’m not sure what scientific pretensions the
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