Andrew Wakefield lied, children died… – Part 2
January 29th, 2010 . by Jeff HoyResearcher Who Sparked the Vaccine/Autism Scare “Acted Unethically”
The MMR/autism hypothesis took off in 1998 with the publication of a study of 12 autistic children by Canadian gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield’s study found traces of the measles virus in the guts of children he tested. He concluded that the virus derived from the MMR vaccination, and suggested that it caused inflammation possibly related to the children’s neuropsychiatric dysfunction.
Since then study after study has debunked Wakefield’s research.
This anti-vaccine hysteria that is being promoted by and through celebrities and psuedo-scientific nonsense has got to stop.
