More proof--as though more were needed--that the anti-vaccination movement is built on misinformation, disinformation, bad science, ignorance, and outright lies: A major study published in one of the world’s leading medical journals has concluded that there is no link between the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccination and autism in children. The findings from the study of …
Andrew Wakefield: Fraud
Andrew Wakefield was the author of the Lancet piece that started the hysteria about vaccinations leading to autism in children. The paper's "findings" were debunked long ago, but as we learn here, it is not enough to state that the paper was grossly inaccurate in its conclusions. The paper, in fact, was a fraud, as …