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Medicine under attack
Today science is treated with suspicion, perhaps born of fear and even medical advance is challenged by the march of irrational belief.While we indulge unproven healing 'magic', tried and tested scientific medicine is under attack. Media 'causes celebres' – from side effects to superbugs – have bred widespread cynicism about medical progress.
The danger of devaluing evidence has never been more apparent than when one survey of twelve children wrongly linked MMR vaccine with autism and yet prompted hundreds of thousands of parents to opt their children out of entirely sensible inoculations to ward off dangerous diseases.
Where once there was reason, now there is confusion...
