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The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.

Kari McKim

@karimac.bsky.social

Obviously vaccines do not cause autism, but some people making uninformed claims is NOT justification for doing so ourselves. If you think the Wakefield paper stated vaccines cause autism, or that one paper is the basis for parental concern about vaccines, you are mis- or uninformed yourself.

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