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We need the full picture on both smacking and vaccinations
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Editor,—Dr Elliman is noted for his careful methodological analysis of vaccination studies,1 but is not so careful in his recent analysis of physical punishment.2
The American Academy of Pediatrics's co-sponsored scientific consensus conference on corporal punishment used a more scientific approach than the Elliman-Lynch summary. First, it carefully defined spanking as a subset of corporal punishment. …