Apology
Although the General Medical Council found that Professors Simon Murch and John Walker-Smith, former colleagues of Andrew Wakefield, had failed in their duties as responsible consultants such that they continue to face charges of serious professional misconduct (“Fall of ‘dishonest’ doctor who started MMR scare”, January 29), it did not find them dishonest or, in the case of Professor Murch, irresponsible, contrary to our report. We were also wrong to say (“The men who started the scare”, same day) that they had not retracted the claim that MMR could be linked to health problems; they did so in The Lancet in 2004. We apologise for the errors. Link
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