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Did the founder of the antivax movement fake autism-vaccine link?
- CalmQuiet 18y agoYet, many antivaxers will no doubt refuse to be "distracted by the facts." Somehow such issues become a "raison-d'etre" for some people and essentially an identity issue (as PG discusses regarding politics & religion in a recent HN post). It's just a shame when innocent children are deprived of important immunity because of such zealotry by their parents. I can only hope that the light brought on the possible fabrication behind the original antivax data will provide some "immunity" against more parents being infected by the zealotry.
- alnayyir 18y agoThis is actually a point of rage for me. I hated it when opinionated mothers who are in fact completely ignorant about statistics or science choose to endanger their children like this. Fucking absurd. It's child abuse.
- tptacek 18y agoThere are just as many jackass fathers pushing this.
- disambiguated 18y agoWhat does Richard Stallman have to do with epidemiology?!
- silencio 18y agoIt is going to take years if not decades to repair the damage this train wreck of a "study" has done in the UK where there is no longer herd immunity to measles and there has already been one death of a child who did not receive the vaccine. I can only hope that parents refusing to vaccinate their children will finally do so after the absurd Wakefield study is shown for what it is. How frustrating.