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BILL GATES ON THE VACCINES/AUTISM HOAX: Well, Dr. Wakefield has been shown to have used absolutel?

By Glenn Reynolds

BILL GATES ON THE VACCINES/AUTISM HOAX:

Well, Dr. Wakefield has been shown to have used absolutely fraudulent data. He had a financial interest in some lawsuits, he created a fake paper, the journal allowed it to run. All the other studies were done, showed no connection whatsoever again and again and again. So it’s an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn’t have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts — you know, they, they kill children. It’s a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.

Yes, they are.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 06, 2011 (boomark / email).