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Rated by Participant: 76AD05782FB417336AC17EE7D05A857F38727344F8D6A905FAC7631569F624BB
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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) Wakefield & Hooker studies were both retracted https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673697110960/fulltext Wakefield 1998 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4128611/ Hooker 2014 https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2014/10/06/its-official-brian-hookers-reanalysis-of-mmr-data-is-retracted
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