University staff criticised for fire ant treatment and vaccine misinformation

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University of Queensland researchers have spread misinformation around the safety of vaccines and fire ant treatments...

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners quality care chair Mark Morgan said medical journals had a responsibility not to publish vaccine misinformation.

"There are strong moral and ethical reasons to be very careful that medical publications present information that is accurate and unbiased," Professor Morgan said.

"The stakes are much higher in healthcare than in other debates.

 

"In the case of vaccines, children's lives can be lost because the public is exposed to unbalanced articles dressed up as scientific papers."

 

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vaccine hesitancy