Dr Wakefield’s comments at a press conference announcing the paper, where he linked the MMR vaccine to a risk of autism, led to a public health scare that saw uptake of the vaccine dip below 80%. The
Lancet later repudiated the paper, after it emerged that Dr Wakefield had extensive financial ties to lawyers and families who were pursuing the manufacturers of the vaccine in the courts and that most of his research participants were litigants.
I actually just heard on the radio a couple days ago, I think it was John Carlson (local guy), how some people from the CDC have even come forward to talk about how they purposefully discredited Dr. Wakefield's research and were even silenced by the government when they tried talking about it. I don't understand how people don't see what a conspiracy this is
Without more evidence than you heard on a radio show that "some people", unnamed, unknown, did something nefarious to a known and proven fraud (Wakefield), it is a conspiracy theory in the worst sense rather than an actual conspiracy.
No kidding! I knew a guy, I actually set him up with his wife, and they have a boy with autism yet they jumped down my throat when they found out that I didn't vaccinate.
Huh - "yet".
I also know a girl I homeschooled with who is an avid vaccine supporter (she even claims that GARDISIL is one of the safest vaccines on the market) and her kids get vaccinated for everything. There was one point where she was posting regular updates on her Facebook page about how her son had been in the ER multiple times after waking her and her husband up every night for over THREE WEEKS because he kept throwing up.
I can honestly count on one hand how many times my child has been sick, apart from a cold here and there. She even went two years without getting sick, not even a cold, and she's only five!
You believe that there is a correlation.