How did we get here, with a prominent anti-vaxxer nominated to lead Health and Human Services, with its $1.7T budget? Much of it can be traced to this retracted 1998 paper, falsely linking the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism. 1/3 - ThreadSky

stearnslab.bsky.social • 88 days ago

How did we get here, with a prominent anti-vaxxer nominated to lead Health and Human Services, with its $1.7T budget?

Much of it can be traced to this retracted 1998 paper, falsely linking the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism. 1/3

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brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social•88 days ago

wow it has been a while
Rumors, amiright ?

imperfectlykind.bsky.social•87 days ago

Because the DOJ failed to convict Trump for any crime he has committed. Garland failed us and the constitution he promised to uphold. Now the rest of us have to watch the constitution that was supposed to be protected burn.

johnspicer3.bsky.social•88 days ago

Astonishing isn’t it, Tim
In UK primary care, I well remember the effort on everyone’s part trying to limit the damage this nonsense caused

stearnslab.bsky.social•88 days ago

The paper was immediately controversial, but it wasn’t until 2004 when journalist Brian Deer writing for The Sunday Times reported that the first author had an undisclosed financial conflict and, later, that he had manipulated the data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud 2/3

stearnslab.bsky.social•88 days ago

The paper was retracted in 2010, but we’re still dealing with the effects of what has been described as "the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years" 3/3

docdellaire.bsky.social•88 days ago

This needs to be taught in high school biology. Then repeated again as an intro to bioethics for every health/med undergraduate.

timnfeinstein.bsky.social•88 days ago

Wakefield’s re-invention as a campaigner at new agey conspiracy theory parenting conventions should re-define what we understand to be the last refuge of a scoundrel.

jukebarosh.bsky.social•88 days ago

Not sure that's exactly how we got here. Being pure anti-vaxx is still a minority view & most Americans don't think MMR causes autism. What has happened post-covid is a troubling ~25% drop in prior bipartisan support 4 school vaxx mandates. I'd start tracing there https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/05/16/what-americans-think-about-the-mmr-vaccines/

trantteam.bsky.social•88 days ago

I know this isn't a universal truth, but any PI putting their name first on a paper always rubs me the wrong way. Doesn't surprise me that he is such a dissembling douche.

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