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And here my answer was going to be that discredited one which triggered the anti-vaxxer movement.
by btgeekboy 8y ago
And here my answer was going to be that discredited one which triggered the anti-vaxxer movement.
- ranko 8y agoThat's the top answer (https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-worst-academic-papers-ever-published/answer/Jennifer-Edeburn https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-worst-academic-pa...) - and deservedly so!
- sidkhanooja 8y agoFor those not clicking on the link (like me), it's Andrew Wakefield - who published a blatantly false paper in The Lancet in 1998 [1], linking MMR vaccines to autism [2] - triggering the anti-vaccination movement, leading to a resurgence of hitherto eradicated diseases [3]. [1] - http://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-paper.htm http://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-paper.htm [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield#Epidemics,_effects,_and_reception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield#Epidemics,_ef...
- asaddhamani 8y agoSame. It's also been proved that he was making it up but people turn a blind eye to that part of it.