The article critiques Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s use of a recent peer-reviewed study by Anthony Mawson during his Senate confirmation hearings. It highlights the lack of credibility surrounding the journal in which the study was published, noting that it is not indexed by the National Library of Medicine. Mawson's history of promoting unfounded connections between vaccines and autism is discussed, alongside the questionable background of the journal's editorial board. The piece ultimately warns against relying on such dubious sources when considering public health policy.
"Mawson" is Anthony Mawson, an epidemiologist and former academic who has published several papers alleging a connection between childhood vaccines and autism. (Any such connection has been thoroughly debunked.)
His latest on the subject, and the one to which Kennedy was referring, appeared in a journal that is not indexed by the National Library of Medicine, or by any other organization that might provide it with some scientific credibility.
Most notably, the journal's editorial board includes members with troubling records, including one who has lost five papers to retraction, highlighting potential biases.
A citizen-activist who hopes to be the nation's leading health-policy official-should be wary of citing anything from this researcher or this journal.
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