Fallout from hailed cloning paper

The fallout from Vioxx.

Fallout of the enterocolitis, autism, MMR vaccine paper.

On the 28th Feb 1998 The Lancet published a paper by Andrew Wakefield 1 that proposed a new condition of enterocolitis, regressive autism and an association with MMR vaccine as the apparent precipitating event. At a press conference describing the 12 children case series he urged the use of single vaccines instead of MMR. The study generated immediate alarm and controversy. After its publicatio...

Iodine-131 Fallout from Underground Tests II.

In a recent report (1), List, Telegadas, and Ferber take issue with my earlier conclusion (2) that vented underground tests in Nevada were the probable sources for the repeated occurrences of iodine-131 fallout in midwestern United States during May 1962. In doing so they provide no evidence to establish that the underground shots in question were contained, but they suggest that precipitation ...

Pu isotopes in soils collected downwind from Lop Nor: regional fallout vs. global fallout

For the first time, soil core samples from the Jiuquan region have been analyzed for Pu isotopes for radioactive source identification and radiological assessment. The Jiuquan region is in downwind from the Lop Nor Chinese nuclear test (CNT) site. The high Pu inventories (13 to 546 Bq/m(2)) in most of the sampling locations revealed that this region was heterogeneously contaminated by the regio...

UK researchers digest the fallout from Brexit.

www.thelancet.com Vol 388 July 9, 2016 115 The president of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences professor Sir Robert Lechler was candid when it came to his view on the research implications of the UK referendum result: “I think this represents the biggest challenge to the UK’s research sector in living memory.” The referendum on June 23, in which voters took the momentous decision to leave the...