alt Hacker NewsThe pivotal paper that tried to link vaccines to autism came out of the UK and was published in The Lancet.
Assuming that the US was the root of the current surge of anti-vax idealism is not supported by the facts.
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And that guy ended up losing his medical license permanently over it.
Yeah, I guess:
> Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956[a]) is an English fraudster and anti-vaccine activist. Formerly a senior surgeon, he was struck off the British medical register in 2010 for "serious professional misconduct" due to his involvement in the fraudulent 1998 Lancet MMR autism report, (wikpedia)
Sadly debunking fraud doesn't seem to stop the misinfo on social media. "Vaccines cause autism!" gets more clicks than the truth and so you get JFK Jr.
I wonder where that guy lives now
The fraudulent Lancet paper gave "credibility" to the grifters and conspiracy theorists world wide.
But the King of Graft installing the halfwit RFK to run HHS is next level and I assume fellow grifters are making serious bank off this shit.
Reminder, the vengeful Orange also installed a climate change denier to run NOAA after he lost the election, who posted bogus claims on the official NOAA website which grifters used to give legitimacy to their bullshit.
Yeah, but the facts don't support the narrative that's being pushed here, which is "America bad".
In fact, you can bet that other states deliberately stirred the pot
I don't think the general public were as influenced by a paper in the Lancet as they were by other members of the public (and media) talking about that study.