Via Balloon Juice, more evidence that the fears associated with the MMR vaccine are unfounded. This really has been a public health travesty. Vaccines are one simple and largely inexpensive route to protecting child and community health, and fake scares like this put millions in jeopardy, 
as preventable illness finds a safe haven in unvaccinated populations. Exposing children needlessly to dangerous wild viruses is unconscionable.
THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
Confidential medical documents and interviews with witnesses have established that Andrew Wakefield manipulated patients’ data, which triggered fears that the MMR triple vaccine to protect against measles, mumps and rubella was linked to the condition.
And of course there is the cyclical, fundamentalist jihad against the polio vaccine, using fear and ignorance as a vector for misery.
A lot more at Respectful Insolence.
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