r/MurderedByWords • u/JerryJr99 • Jan 31 '25

#1 Murder of Week Your response is concerning, Bobby!

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u/Karpaltunnel83 Jan 31 '25

Fun fact: The doctor that made the "Vaccine causes Autism" claim has been disproven multiple times and even lost his doctorate for it

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u/CyberSkepticalFruit Jan 31 '25

He didn't lose his doctorate, he lost his ability to practice medicine. He can call himself Dr Wakefield, just not when doing anything to do with medicine.

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u/insomnimax_99 Jan 31 '25

No, he can’t call himself Dr Wakefield because he doesn’t have a doctorate.

He studied in the UK, and in the UK, Medicine is a double bachelors degree - Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, sometimes also MBChB).

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u/CyberSkepticalFruit Jan 31 '25

If that were true then no medical doctor in the UK could use the prefix of doctor.