http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Weekly Round-up Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2013 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Sun, 19 May 2013 01:45:14 GMT Sun, 19 May 2013 01:45:14 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/BMJ-the-MMR-Study-Is-an-Elaborate-Fraud-Part-III-Final-179020.shtml For the past two weeks, you have learned more about the MMR scam – who set it up and why, so now, all that's left to find out is who knew about it and what was done to repair the damage.

In 2004, when concerns about the credibility of the 1998 Lancet paper were raised, the medical establishment closed ranks to protect Wakef... (read more)]]> Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:41:01 GMT Softpedia News - Weekly Round-up http://news.softpedia.com/news/BMJ-the-MMR-Study-Is-an-Elaborate-Fraud-Part-III-Final-179020.shtml Weekly Round-up http://news.softpedia.com/news/BMJ-the-MMR-Study-Is-an-Elaborate-Fraud-Part-III-Final-179020.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Smaranda Biliuti) http://news.softpedia.com/news/BMJ-the-MMR-Study-Is-an-Elaborate-Fraud-Part-II-177395.shtml As said last week, BMJ reveals today the second part of the secret business that wanted to exploit vaccine fears, thanks to the fraudulent “MMR study” published by Andrew Wakefield in the 1998 Lancet paper.

According to case data, the “MMR doctor” planned to make millions out of this health scare in the United Ki... (read more)]]> Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:41:00 GMT Softpedia News - Weekly Round-up http://news.softpedia.com/news/BMJ-the-MMR-Study-Is-an-Elaborate-Fraud-Part-II-177395.shtml Weekly Round-up http://news.softpedia.com/news/BMJ-the-MMR-Study-Is-an-Elaborate-Fraud-Part-II-177395.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Smaranda Biliuti) http://news.softpedia.com/news/BMJ-the-MMR-Study-Is-an-Elaborate-Fraud-176416.shtml The British Medical Journal declared today, January 6, 2011, that the 1998 Lancet paper that implied a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, was “an elaborate fraud.”

The MMR vaccine is an immunization shot against Measles, Mumps and Rubella – also called German measles, and it was first developed by Maurice Hilleman while ... (read more)]]> Thu, 6 Jan 2011 00:11:00 GMT Softpedia News - Weekly Round-up http://news.softpedia.com/news/BMJ-the-MMR-Study-Is-an-Elaborate-Fraud-176416.shtml Weekly Round-up http://news.softpedia.com/news/BMJ-the-MMR-Study-Is-an-Elaborate-Fraud-176416.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Smaranda Biliuti) http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-World-Record-in-Solar-Cell-Efficiency-60954.shtml A real breakthrough has been made by a team of scientists in the field of solar energy converters. The new discovery is a fuel cell that, for the first time, surpassed the 40% efficiency milestone, the highest efficiency achieved for any photovoltaic device.

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