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

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

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u/mOjzilla Jan 31 '25

Who funds these quacks, there seems to an explosion false information spreaders who are failing upwards.

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u/Jack_Kegan Jan 31 '25

For Andrew Wakefield it was started because this lawyer (alongside a then tiny group of anti-vaxxers) thought a class action lawsuit against vaccines would be lucrative and so he paid a doctor to find a correlation between vaccines and autism 

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u/mOjzilla Jan 31 '25

It's a failure of modern law when some one can spread actual misinformation leading to death of potentially millions while that person faces no consequences.

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u/redjedia Feb 01 '25

He lost his medical license for his multiple counts of misconduct during the study. He faced consequences. Did they go far enough? No, but they exist.