• Err(()).unwrap()@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you want to be really pissed, read up on doctor disgraced former doctor, lifelong charlatan and grifter Andrew Wakefield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

    He abused autistic kids in a medical experiment that was meant to convince both the public and the scientific community that a specific combined vaccine (measles-mumps-rubella, a.k.a MMR) could trigger some kind of bowel disease that causes autism, all so he could peddle his own alternative that is three separate shots.

    • Lucien [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      And here’s the kicker: he did that because he was financially invested in the company producing the older, separate vaccines.