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Andrew Wakefield's medical credentials were revoked and his falsified research was retracted. The system worked.


“In 1998, a now discredited article appeared in The Lancet which linked the MMR vaccination to autism. Uptake decreased significantly, and by 2003/04 only 79.9% of children were vaccinated. The Lancet partially retracted the paper in 2004 and fully retracted it in 2010, and coverage consequently improved, reaching 92.7% in 2013/14.”

From https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/vaccination-covera...

It took circa 10 years for the “system worked” outcome. Can 10 years of excess child deaths due to fraud be counted as “worked”? Surely beyond a couple of years to refute the findings is failure?




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