Yep. The same thing happened 15-20 years ago with claims that vaccines cause autism. It took the downfall of Andrew Wakefield to finally get the press to drop its false balance and stop giving antivaxxers a platform.https://twitter.com/mem_somerville/status/1399903987122556935 …
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Also, I’d quibble with your contention that Wakefield was a real scientist. At least, if he ever was a real scientist, he ceased to be one when he took that barrister’s money to produce a fraudulent study supporting the link between MMR and autism.
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Not all scientists are good or sanepic.twitter.com/8csRIT4B1J
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