Intended for healthcare professionals

Rapid response to:

Feature Secrets of the MMR scare

How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money

BMJ 2011; 342 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c5258 (Published 11 January 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011;342:c5258

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Re:Let's not curtail free speech

Re: Neville's suggestion that enough is enough

I don't condone the flat-earthers for one moment but let's not advocate a society where their strident claims are censored before getting on the page. Surely the vaucuous arguments being put forward in support of Wakefield's research illustrate precisely the point which Deer is making?

Competing interests: No competing interests

18 January 2011
Trisha Greenhalgh
Professor of Primary Health Care
Queen Mary University of London