Anti-Vaccine: Founding Study Debunked, But it's Getting Worse

"Special Education teacher Kelly Burke joins us to debunk the classic Andrew Wakefield vaccine study, but there's probably a whole lot that you don't know about it because holy crap this thing was shockingly terrible. It's especially insane that it had such an impact on the anti-vax movement when it was literally a pile of garbage in every way imaginable. Come learn more about truly one of the worst science thingies to ever thing."

(https://overcast.fm/+Oqll31QXY)

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"Americans have less confidence in vaccines to address a variety of illnesses than they did just a year or two ago, and more people accept misinformation about vaccines and Covid-19, according to the latest health survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania."

(https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/vaccine-confidence-falls-as-belief-in-health-misinformation-grows/)

The Worst Of The Quacks

As most who follow me know, I am very hard on promoters of alternatives to medicine (quacks). A significant problem with the issue is several of them are prominent in the media. Click on the link below for the *6 worst examples of such, according to one source:

6) Deepak Chopra

5) Dr. Oz

4) Michael Roizen

3) Joseph Mercola

2) Andrew Wakefield

1) Jenny McCarthy

* I would add JFK Jr and ALL Chiropractors to this list!

5 Celebrity Doctors (plus, the worst, who is not a doctor!) Who Are Lying To Us

The Monster Lives!!!

Why Won’t the Andrew Wakefield Nightmare End?