"MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield fixed data on autism"

[entropydevice]

So, that study that started the autism-vaccine link craze? Yeah, turns out
maybe it wasn't entirely accurate.

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[ultranurd]

That court decision seems to be a pretty big deal. I assume the Internet autism-advocacy community is up in arms.

[entropydevice]

Up in arms?

The *vaccine* camp I'm sure is up in arms. But they're basically misinformed, morons, or both.

[ultranurd]

You're correct that I'm conflating, but my understanding was this belief (and underlying desire for an explanation) was pretty widespread in various online support groups.

[entropydevice]

It's a very loud and obnoxious minority. The mentality of the vaccine camp is that of conspiracy theorists-- they are, understandably, upset about their children being autistic, and someone read the now-discredited Wakefield research. I'm pretty sure most of the mainstream groups reject this, because it's a sort of anti-researcher thing.

[palliddreamer]

This makes me laugh so hard. All of the major papers on the link between MMR and autism were mostly hedge science, and most of the authors have been discredited or withdrawn their papers. But that never stops the antivax conspiracy theorists. I'm curious how they'll respond.