Jenny McCarthy as an activist, "Green Vaccines," death threats
against pro-vaccine doctors, deadly measles outbreaks: all sprang from
one source, a flawed medical study with a tiny sample size, a lead
author willing to fudge the facts, and a story the media found too
fascinating to fully examine.
Writing in this week's Newsweek magazine, Sharon Begley lays out the timeline of what would become one of the biggest medical fairy tales of the past decade
-- a narrative of corrupt pharamaceutical companies, poisoned children,
and devoted parents. Too bad it wasn't, you know, true.
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