Not only that. It shows how the media took a single scary report, created an entire movement around it, and the scientific community completely failed to discover or correct it.
Global Warming, anyone?
Which is not much different than how all the global warming hullabaloo is propagated either.
We've known for a long time that no additional studies have corroborated the supposed vaccine-autism link. What we didn't know until now was that it was a fraud from the beginning.
Responsible scientists have been discrediting this mumbo-jumbo for some time. But as with AGW, the press made up its mind, cares nothing about the facts, and ethical voices can't get a hearing.
This bogus vaccine link will continue to be bandied about on the internet and in the press for years to come, long after scientists have moved on to other things.
Yeah, like that's never happened before:
DDT ("silent Spring")
Population "control" (i.e. abortion).
Nuclear power generation ("The China Syndrome").
Global Warming (conpiracy of the Left).
That is the magic of the Drive by Media. Nobody is ever held responsible for the mess left behind after they reek havoc with the Obama worshiping, Oprah loving, give me my gubmint cheese masses.
We make vaccinations with sixty-yr-old technology because the pharms don't like to invest in them...because of the lawyers who promote crackpot dogma so they can cash in.
“Not only that. It shows how the media took a single scary report, created an entire movement around it, and the scientific community completely failed to discover or correct it.”
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Sound familiar? Global warming/climate control and the economic crises quickly come to mind.
Problem - reaction - solution.
Thesis - antithesis - synthesis.