Tracing the anti-vax scam's history from @perfectunion
The video explains the origins of the modern anti-vaccine movement by tracing it back to Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent 1998 study. Multiple experts and narrators detail how the study was scientifically debunked but continued to spread, highlighting the financial motivations of key figures like Wakefield and lawyers such as RFK Jr. The narrative connects the growth of this misinformation to the right-wing "health freedom" movement and concludes by calling for greater transparency and accountability in medical and governmental institutions.
Creator: @perfectunion on Instagram
Transcript
We need to stop trusting the experts. Right? In 1998, Andrew Wakefield, a British gastrointestinal surgeon, published a paper in The Lancet of eight children who had recently received the measles, mumps, rubella, MMR vaccine that then within a month or so of that developed signs and symptoms of autism. And he then believed that the MMR vaccine caused autism. The scientific and medical community responded by doing easy studies. That study now has been done 24 times in seven different countries on
Topics: Politics, Health, Education
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