02-10-2015, 08:39 AM
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This is a moderately long article deserving of a read..
Andrew Wakefield, father of the anti-vax movement, still insists MMR vaccine causes autism
Newsweek 2/10/15
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Andrew Wakefield is both revered and reviled. To a small group of parents,
he’s a hero who won’t back down from his assertion that the measles, mumps
and rubella (MMR) vaccine can cause autism.
In the wake of the most recent measles outbreak in the U.S.—which began at the Disneyland
theme park in Southern California in late December 2014 and has since spread to 17 states
and infected more than 100 people—Wakefield defends his views about the measles vaccine.
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“The responsibility lies squarely on the shoulders of those that have been involved in vaccine policymaking, which is totally inadequate and bordering on dangerous,” he says. “The government has only themselves to blame for this problem.”
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Wakefield dismisses the notion that he bears any responsibility for the current outbreak,
despite decreasing vaccination rates in some parts of the country and
the perpetuated fear of an MMR-autism link:
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“The people who put the blame on me are really just displacing their inadequacy on others.”
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