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Bonus Sample: How Does Andrew Wakefield Keep Getting Resurrected?

Dec 01, 20256 min
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With the CDC recently updating its website with anti-vax propaganda under the direction of RFK Jr, disgraced and disbarred physician, Andrew Wakefield, is back in the news. In fact, Senator Ron Johnson even tweeted out that he deserves an apology. He must be relying on short attention spans, given all the ways Wakefield manipulated the “study” that showed a link between vaccines and autism—even though the study itself found no such proof.

Derek revisits the retracted 1998 study, as well as shows just how much proof exists to the contrary of the CDC’s new page.

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