How not to report on the HPV vaccine

Julia Belluz writes that a Toronto Star story about the HPV vaccine won praise from Andrew Wakefield but condemnation from doctors and public health officials: "The story was, at its core, a collection of unproven anecdotes that suggested, among other things, that dozens of women north of the border had been harmed or worse by the Gardasil HPV vaccine," Belluz writes. The Star has since added a disclaimer and changed its headline.

February 16, 2015

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