Quite right! Hence "cautiously". Regardless, one may still "cautiously note this is the exact scenario that Andrew Wakefield complained had happened with MMR",

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.