Andrew Wakefield
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title:
Andrew Wakefield
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Andrew Jeremy Wakefield is a British fraudster, discredited academic, anti-vaccine activist, and former physician. He was struck off the medical register for his involvement in The Lancet MMR autism fraud, a 1998 study that fraudulently claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. He has subsequently become known for anti-vaccination activism. Publicity around it caused a sharp decline in vaccination uptake, leading to a number of outbreaks of measles around t
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Discredited British former doctor (born 1956)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
date created:
2005-03-30T20:24:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T17:35:16Z
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