Opinion | 'The Paper's Title Tells You It Shouldn’t be Published': What We Heard This Week

— Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today's reporters

June 21, 2026

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"The paper's title tells you that it shouldn't be published." -- Paul Offit, MD, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, on a study that purportedly suggested an increase in sudden infant death syndrome a few days after vaccination before the journal removed it.

"All the stages of grief -- shock, bewilderment, disappointment, anger." -- Ronak Shah, MD, of Emergency Medicine of Blue Ridge in Winchester, Virginia, discussing an emergency medicine group's reactions to being terminated and replaced by doctors provided by a private equity firm.