TY - JOUR T1 - GPs and junk science JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 757 LP - 757 VL - 57 IS - 542 AU - Mike Fitzpatrick Y1 - 2007/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/542/757.abstract N2 - According to the ‘first law of bullshit dynamics’ propounded by Ben Goldacre in his ‘Bad Science’ column in the Guardian, ‘there is no imaginable proposition so absurd that you cannot find at least one person, somewhere in the world with a PhD or professional post, who is happy to endorse it.’1 It may be stated as a rider to this law that any such absurd proposition can readily attract the enthusiastic support of several GPs.Take, for instance, the campaign against the MMR vaccine, currently reaching its grim terminus at the GMC. Although it may be expected that doctors would be uniformly hostile to the anti-MMR campaign, it has not been without its GP supporters. The most … ER -