How do you explain the correlation between vaccines and autism?
Oh, that’s easy.
In 1998 Andrew Wakefield published a study in the Lancet that claimed a causative link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
The thing is, Wakefield lied.
He didn’t make a mistake. He didn’t misunderstand. He had a financial incentive to outright lie.
Wakefield was employed by a lawyer representing parents who claimed that the vaccine had caused autism in their children. He also sold a “diagnostic kit” to diagnose “autistic enterocolitis”, the form of autism he claimed to have discovered that was caused by vaccines. Finally, he had a patent to a competing vaccine for MMR.
Not only did he manipulate data and lie for financial gain, that paper is why Andrew Wakefield is Andrew Wakefield and not Doctor Andrew Wakefield. His lie was such a betrayal of professional ethics that he was stripped of his medical license.
And after being proven a lying fraud, he has continued to scam and grift the anti-vax idiots, producing multiple videos that “uncover” a fake “conspiracy” that took his license from. He’s a bitter old fraudster who won’t move on from the original lie that has ruined the lives of many people.
