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It’s not called the Grauaniad for nothing. Private Eye have mocked it for years.

Private eye, who famously backed Wakefield and led to thousands being unvaccinated.

Still haven’t seen an apology. Maybe they like rfk.

I have seen Ian Hislop list that as one of his greatest failures in an interview. I don't know if they printed an apology and obviously they were dead wrong here, but they (or at least, Hislop) have recognised it as such.

From Wikipedia:

In a review article published in 2010, after Wakefield was disciplined by the General Medical Council, regular columnist Phil Hammond, who contributes to the "Medicine Balls" column under the pseudonym "MD", stated that: "Private Eye got it wrong in its coverage of MMR" in maintaining its support for Wakefield's position long after shortcomings in his work had emerged.

That’s a failure of editing, not writing. Though it’s mostly a historic thing in any case; its heyday was about a century ago.

Meh; it's mostly little more than a meme. And also something from the age of printed papers and typesetting errors.