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One cautiously notes this is the exact scenario that Andrew Wakefield complained had happened with MMR.

• ceejayoz 6y ago
  The corruption in the MMR scenario came from Wakefield, including having applied for a patent for a competing vaccine, and receiving over $400k by trial lawyers pushing to show the MMR vaccine to be dangerous, resulting in findings that he "had been dishonest in his research, had acted against his patients' best interests and mistreated developmentally delayed children, and had 'failed in his duties as a responsible consultant'" and his being barred from practicing medicine in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud#Conflict_of_interest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud#Confli...
  • tpoacher 6y ago
    Quite right! Hence "cautiously". Regardless, one may still "cautiously note this is the exact scenario that Andrew Wakefield complained had happened with MMR", without contradicting anything you (quite rightly) pointed out about the nature of later events. And just as with this story, and as others have commented elsewhere, this behaviour by the government (pushing a solution they were aware had a high probability of being substandard) may or may not be more related to political than medical factors, and may or may not have involved malicious intent.