The UK replaced 3 separate vaccines against the childhood diseases mumps, measles and rubella with a single combined MMR vaccine. A cowboy doctor, using poor methodology and allegedly dodgy commercial motives wrote a paper for the Lancet that suggested that this new vaccine was implicated in the coincident rise in autism.

this lit a fire of populism in the right wing press that meant that take up of these vaccinations in the UK was significantly down. It took over a decade before those involved were held responsible. but for a decade incidences of these quite serious diseases have been rising because kids aren't being vaccinated.

Hence mine and the Onion's dig at the idea that mob rule is determining vaccination policy.

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