Monday, January 10, 2011

Peer reviewed science

In light of new evidence claiming fraudulent data regarding vaccines and the occurrence of autism in children, there are people demanding "more rigorous controls ... over what is published as peer reviewed science and what is not". Should it be the scientific community, the press or the general public responsible for determining reliability of data? What controls could there be put on the scientific community if any? Could an entire nation become scientifically literate, let alone just having the ability to think critically about what it hears in the news (or on facebook or on twitter or any other form of published work)?

Read the following article, before commenting
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/7546906_autism_vaccine_link_study_proven_as_a_fraud