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Vaccination Quakery 1

The Boston Globe:

It was back in 1998 that Wakefield, who now stands accused of unethical and irresponsible research, published a medical article suggesting a link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Since then, the research has been discredited by follow-up studies that failed to find a link between the vaccine and the disease. As far back as 2004, 10 of Wakefield’s original co-authors retracted the findings of the article in a letter to The Lancet, the prestigious medical journal where it was initially published. Puzzlingly, it took the journal six more years to issue its own official retraction, which came out in February.

In the meantime, persons have died because of the anti-vaccination hysteria that this bozo started.

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  1. Karen

    June 1, 2010 at 5:52 am

    I vaccinated all my kids. To not do so wouldn’t have been allowed, especially with Chris being a polio survivor.

    These parents who refuse to vaccinate because of what this doctor started not only jeopardize their kids, but the kids around them. I’ve seen articles that talk about the unvaccinated kids & the outbreaks they can be responsible for in schools. Bad news.

    Then they cry because people condemn their “choice”. Too bad, so sad.