Panic Virus
Panic Virus WHO DECIDES WHICH FACTS ARE TRUE? The media seized hold of the story and, in the process, helped to launch one of the most devastating health scares ever. In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a…
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Panic Virus
WHO DECIDES WHICH FACTS ARE TRUE? The media seized hold of the story and, in the process, helped to launch one of the most devastating health scares ever. In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism.
Meanwhile one study after another failed to find any link between childhood vaccines and autism. In the years to come Wakefield would be revealed as a profiteer in league with class-action lawyers, and he would eventually lose his medical license. Yet the myth that vaccines somehow cause developmental disorders lives on.
Despite the lack of corroborating evidence, it has been popularized by media personalities such as Oprah Winfrey and Jenny McCarthy and legitimized by journalists who claim that they are just being fair to "both sides" of an issue