The scientists should have been ethical with their research to begin with, and because that did not happen, the further research should have convinced the publisher to print a retraction before 2010. That could have limited some of the outbreaks if children were receiving vaccines. I am also curious why the journalist, Brian Deer, was allowed to continue after the previous false report. (Sathyanarayana Rao & Andrade, 2011).
Doctors doing medical research have an ethical responsibility