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Assignment -
For this assignment please use essay format and address all mentioned topics in a narrative style. 11 point fonts double spacing.
Read the 4 resources -
a. Wakefield, Lancet 1998
b. Retraction of an interpretation Lancet 2004
c. MMR responding to retraction, Lancet (note authorship)
d. Retraction: Illeal lymphoid nodular hyperplasia nonspecific colitis and pervasive developmental disorder in children, Lancet 2010.
Please address the following topics in your response:
a. Summarize the experimental design and method of patient recruitment (according to the authors)
b. Explain Figure 3.
c. What is increased intestinal permeability and how is it explained (histologically)?
d. What were the major conclusions drawn from this study?
e. Does the measles infection / Chrone's disease link "hold water?" Cite a reference either supporting or detracting from this point.
f. After reading the series of retractions published in the Lancet summarize what happened.
g. Why is this study so (in) famous?
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