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2024-12-18 15:22:48 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 463A7A0294716072D102452A4C5796741B40DC3108A703356B94529145C6B206
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The origins of the vaccine causes autism myth comes from a fabricated, since-withdrawn, anecdotal account published by Dr. Andrew Wakefield in the Lancet who was paid by plaintiff's lawyers , which subsequently retracted the article. See https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c7452 + Brian Deer book on fraud,scandal: https://tinyurl.com/vessmtf
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