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It's been a bad couple of days for 'fake news' Telegraph. First, its 'science' editor's favourite widely criticised anti-vax study was retracted as it contained 'misinformation'. Now its political editor gets slapped down by the regulator for more anti-vax lies. #AntiVaxScammers

Hi Kamran. I'm not an anti-vaxxer and neither as far as I know are the three experts who wrote to the BMJ's editorial board objecting to your retraction of the paper. So I don't think it's an adequate answer to those critics to smear them as anti-vaxxers. Here's an extract from the Telegraph's story on the retraction and the letter to the BMJ from the three experts: Ronald Meester, professor of probability theory at Vrije University in Amsterdam, who was one of the authors of the letter, told the Telegraph that there was “no scientific reason to retract”. “I think that BMJ might have been pressured, but not clear by whom,” he said. “As we wrote in our letter, retraction is bizarre in this case, there is nothing actually wrong with the paper. “Hence the real reason must be political. Very sad, really, for science. I do not see how we can take science seriously anymore when editors are willing to make decisions for these kinds of reasons.”