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Rated by Participant: BD73E8B6315391ED539B83865BD89D76AA782D68AB586CB1B470C3EC42D041F9
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The "vaccines cause autism" meme was started by Wakefield et al. 1998 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673697110960/fulltext RETRACTED The findings could not be replicated by independent labs. Wakefield was banned from practicing medicine for fraud and ethics violations. Papers 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/ Journalism https://briandeer.com/solved/solved.htm https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lancet-mmr-idUSTRE61132920100202 https://www.vox.com/2018/2/27/17057990/andrew-wakefield-vaccines-autism-study Books https://goodreads.com/en/book/show/3360358-autism-s-false-prophets https://goodreads.com/book/show/52527565-the-doctor-who-fooled-the-world Videos https://youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc https://youtu.be/7VG_s2PCH_c
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