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2023-05-15 10:51:43 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 52A32D95091FF81643E84F02E8DE2E87219D68EA1197C920E92E2E82F55CD088
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The UK General Medical Council ruled that Wakefield showed dishonesty, irresponsibility, and “callous disregard” for the suffering of children he experimented on. https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0310-248b He claimed the MMR vaccine caused Autism while developing his own competing vaccine for measles. https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-020-02989-9/d41586-020-02989-9.pdf https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347 https://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c696 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136032/
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