Facebook putting children's lives at risk by reviving spurious MMR claims, say UK health chiefs Facebook is putting children’s lives at risk by reviving spurious MMR claims, the UK’s top health chiefs have said.
The anti-vaccination sites which promote the fake science that caused a surge in measles cases as well as conspiracy theories about other vaccines appear at the top of searches when parents use Facebook to find information about the MMR vaccine or other vaccinations.
Andrew Wakefield, the discredited doctor behind the fraudulent research linking the MMR vaccine to autism, features prominently on the sites with his film Vaxxed in which he accuses the US government’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention of a cover-up over the risks. The Daily Telegraph
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