Bonus Sample: How Does Andrew Wakefield Keep Getting Resurrected?
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With the CDC recently updating its website with anti-vax propaganda under the direction of RFK Jr, disgraced and disbarred physician, Andrew Wakefield, is back in the news. In fact, Senator Ron Johnson even tweeted out that he deserves an apology. He must be relying on short attention spans, given all the ways Wakefield manipulated the “study” that showed a link between vaccines and autism—even though the study itself found no such proof.
Derek revisits the retracted 1998 study, as well as shows just how much proof exists to the contrary of the CDC’s new page.
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People who don't know who you are, you are the most unfairly vilified man on planet Earth.
Hi, everyone.
I'm Dr. Andy Wakefield.
For more than 20 years, there's been a narrative about me, one that painted me as a quack, a fraud, a troublemaker.
Someone who dared to ask the wrong question.
But the question I asked back then was simple and reasonable.
Do vaccines cause autism, and can we do more studies to answer that question?
That's it.
That was the real crime.
I didn't set out to be controversial.
I was responding to parents, to patterns, to real suffering that demanded honest scientific inquiry.
And for that, my career was sabotaged.
My reputation was targeted.
I was told to sit down, stay quiet, and stop being curious.
And now, years later, with the release of the new McCullough-Hulsher paper, we're seeing something remarkable.
I'm constantly baffled by the resurrections that men, and in this case, it's almost always men, experience.
They act horribly, they're dangerous, they're selfish, they do real-world harm to people, and not only do they get a pass, they grow in stature.
Recently, Russell Brand appeared on Alex Jones' show to chum around.
And if you want to talk about never being held accountable, there you have it.
Andrew Wakefield, who you heard a moment ago, he didn't allegedly and credibly sexually assault numerous women, nor did he call one of the most horrific mass slaughters of children by gun violence a hoax, but he's waged his own war on the human psyche for decades.
His fraudulent 1998 study that linked vaccines to autism, a study that included cherry-picked subjects and falsified data and which was ultimately retracted, it's given the anti-vax movement kerosene for over a generation.
And tragically, with the CDC under RFK Jr.'s guidance now officially claiming that it's never been disproven that vaccines don't cause autism, despite decades of evidence to the contrary, Wakefield's stature is once again growing.
In fact, on November 20th, just after the CDC changed its website, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson tweeted out the following, time to conduct science with integrity.
Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who are maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions.
That doctor is doing a heavy lifting considering he's banned from practicing medicine in the UK and he's never actually practiced in the US, so he's not certified hereto.
It's also a farce given Wakefield never conducted science with integrity.
That's never stopped Del Bigtree, for example, the co-founder of Maha Action with RFK Jr. and one of the most prolific anti-vaxxers, all caps, bombshell.
CDC now admits science lacking behind claims vaccines do not cause autism.
This is the culmination of more than six years of work for I Can Decide, which sued the CDC in 2020 to remove the unscientific claim from its website.
This represents vindication for the 40 to 70 percent of autism parents in America who have been marginalized because of that unsupported claim.
Talk about just making up a statistic.
Sure, sure, Del. Big Tree goes on to write that several claims now on the CDC site, all of them provably false, are actually part of that vindication.
So here's what I want to do today.
I'm going to go over those false claims to spotlight just how much evidence there is to the contrary.
Then I want to run down all the things Andrew Wakefield got wrong or outright manipulated in his 1998 study.
And I know all this has been done before, but given the steroid gummies that Kennedy just handed his base, I feel like we need to revisit the disinformation Wakefield is responsible for, which makes his I'm just asking questions stance even more laughable, ludicrous, and just downright sad.
I'm Derek Barris, and you're listening to a conspiratuality bonus episode.
How does Andrew Wakefield keep getting resurrected?
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