He was paid to make the study saying the MMR vaccine causes autism by a company that made a separate vaccine for Measles, Mumps and Rubella as individual vaccines. So you'd have to pay for 3 vaccines instead of one. His study has been repeated multiple times and never been replicated. It was an outright lie.
I thought he was actually hired by the lawyer of an Anti-Vaxx organziation, and then began working on the side to create his own company to sell the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccines separately to make a shit load of money
There is genuine criticism with Big Pharma, but anyone who is propagating pseudoscience as part of their criticism is always engaging in the worst faith misdirect. It isn’t that Big Pharma is an industry of peer review morticians and snake oil peddlers who overprescribe, oversell, overpromise, overcharge for a little pill, lozenge, powder, spray or shot to cure life’s littlest of inconveniences while causing twice a many catastrophes, it’s that these bullshitters want in on the action too.
Him & RFK Jr who raked in what? a couple hundred million are perfect examples of that.
The thing that really pisses me off is that what Wakefield did is a legitimate Big Pharma Conspiracy. It's 100% what they are accusing all these companies of. It happened. It was proven, by gold standard science, to be bullshit.
Big Pharma is too focused on profit, but there are supposed to be standards. What these guys want is to make big pharma money without any standards applied.
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u/DrWarmBarrel Jan 31 '25
No he wasn't. It's so much dumber than that.
He was paid to make the study saying the MMR vaccine causes autism by a company that made a separate vaccine for Measles, Mumps and Rubella as individual vaccines. So you'd have to pay for 3 vaccines instead of one. His study has been repeated multiple times and never been replicated. It was an outright lie.