<P> On 2 February 2010, The Lancet formally retracted Wakefield's 1998 paper . The retraction states that, "The claims in the original paper that children were' consecutively referred' and that investigations were' approved' by the local ethics committee have been proven to be false ." </P> <P> The following day the editor of a specialist journal, Neurotoxicology, withdrew another Wakefield paper that was in press . The article, which concerned research on monkeys, had already been published online and sought to implicate vaccines in autism . </P> <P> In May 2010, The American Journal of Gastroenterology retracted a paper of Wakefield's that used data from the 12 patients of the article in The Lancet . </P> <P> On 5 January 2011, BMJ editors recommended that Wakefield's other publications should be scrutinized and retracted if need be . </P>

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