Andrew Wakefield, doctor who pushed vaccine-autism link, loses license - David Knowles - Paradigms Lost - True/Slant

Andrew Wakefield, doctor who pushed vaccine-autism link, loses license - David Knowles - Paradigms Lost - True/Slant: "Andrew Wakefield, doctor who pushed vaccine-autism link, loses license
By DAVID KNOWLES
LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 28: Dr Andrew Wakef...

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Say it with me: There is no scientific evidence that shows ANY link whatsoever between childhood vaccines and an increased risk of developing autism.

None. Zero. It’s a myth.

Today, the person most responsible for having spread that falsehood (save, perhaps, for Jenny McCarthy) can no longer practice medicine in the United Kingdom.

The U.K.’s General Medical Council today stripped Dr. Andrew Wakefield of his title. In February, The Lancet, the journal where Wakefield had published his bogus study, retracted the research, saying it was utterly false.

Yes, the internet took Wakefield’s claim and ran with it. As a result, vaccination rates have plummeted. So, spread the word, hysteria won round one. Perhaps reason will now mount a comeback.

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