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2023-06-17 00:08:03 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Wakefield claimed MMR caused autism, while he was trying to develop his own vaccine for measles. He falsified data and misreported funding sources. https://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-summary.htm https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0310-248b https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347 https://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c696 https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0310-248b https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136032/ Books https://goodreads.com/book/show/52527565-the-doctor-who-fooled-the-world https://goodreads.com/en/book/show/3360358-autism-s-false-prophets Video https://youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc?t=2152 (timestamp 35:52)

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• Wakefield claimed MMR caused autism, while he was trying to develop his own vaccine for measles. He falsified data and misreported funding sources. https://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-summary.htm https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0310-248b https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347 https://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c696 https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0310-248b https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136032/ Books https://goodreads.com/book/show/52527565-the-doctor-who-fooled-the-world https://goodreads.com/en/book/show/3360358-autism-s-false-prophets Video https://youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc?t=2152 (timestamp 35:52)