Disgraced Doctor Who Made Up Autism-Vaccine Link Wins Worst Pseudoscience Award

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This has effected so many people. I still here it today when I suggest to senior citizens to get flu shots.

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It deserves criminal prosecution but I suppose prosecutors don’t have a law on the books to apply to the situation .

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I don’t know if its criminal but it is just bads and dumb . Likewise it went so far in the media establishment.
I see autism as just a triggering problem with the memory and therefore in a spectrum of severity.
Its possible lots of things, like a kick to the head, could damage the triggering but flu shots have no connection to such parts.
Now evolutionism is next in line for the reward.

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UK slander laws actually benefited Wakefield, and allowed him to sue his accusers. I think that part of why this brushfire got out of control. Wakefield lost, and those slander laws were changed, I think.

I don’t know how to break this to you sympathetically, but evolution is here to stay, and we are going to see a lot more of it in the next 20 years. We are already seeing applications of evolutionary theory beginning to be used in personalised medicine, genetic therapies, and more.

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