The doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
Confidential medical documents and interviews with witnesses have established that Andrew Wakefield manipulated patients’ data, which triggered fears that the MMR triple vaccine to protect against measles, mumps and rubella was linked to the condition.
This won't change the anti-vaxxers minds one bit. They're not interested in evidence. If they were, they might have been convinced they were completely wrong when all thimerosal was taken out of vaccines and the rates of autism didn't change. They might have been convinced when study after study failed to find any linkage between vaccines and autism. They might have been convinced by experts who have studied the supposed linkage for years.
The fact that they're still moving the goalposts and still spouting pseudo-scientific nonsense which endangers children is because they don't understand science, they don't want to face the concept that autism might be genetic (and for some reason this makes them feel guilty), and they're conspiracy nuts.
The fact that this Doctor faked his results doesn't disprove that vaccines cause autism, but it does demonstrate that so far, scientific study has failed to find ANY connection. And the failure to recognize this fact has caused children to die for absolutely no reason.
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