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2024-03-30 20:32:09 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 77F3621FF8FA173FA4ACD668DF010C276EAE695AC375074FD5F7766FA71A337C
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The idea that vaccines cause autism originated from a paper published by Andrew Wakefield in the medical journal The Lancet in 1998. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(97)11096-0/fulltext That paper was retracted in 2010 because it was found to be fraudulent. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)60175-4/abstract Wakefield tried to profit from his fraudulent research. https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5258
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