Don't believe everything you don't read

It's depressing, really, that the news that Dr Andrew Wakefield has been ruled to have acted unethically when he announced that his research showed that there was a link between the MMR jab and Austim probably won't do anything to prevent people believing in it.

It's like how everyone persists in believing that Craig Charles is a rapist and matthew Kelly is a peadopile when the allegations were declared false. I could mention the Michael Jackson thing as well, but that's not something I can debate on with knowledge, and refer you to kafunked who has actually read court transcripts. Apparently, it's clear from those that he didn't do what he was accused of, and yet we all "know" that he was a kiddy fiddler really, no matter what the court found.

It's worrying that the press can create something "everyone knows" with one story, and then move on, with no responsibility to redress when what "everyone knows" is found to be wrong. It means we have a culture where if it's in the paper, it's true, and if it isn't, it never happened...