In July, I wrote about a “jaw-dropping” press release about California’s astonishing rise in whooping cough cases.
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For a field rooted in fact and reason, science sure loves witchcraft.
One of the most common responses to the decade-long effort to hold Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues accountable for creating one of the biggest public health scares in modern history – linking autism to the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine – is to call the effort a “witch hunt.”