Japan have reported a spike in the virus which begs the question as to whether they were under-reporting it due to trying to keep the Olympic 2020 dream alive, now that it's postponed, we may be getting more accurate figures. The point is that governments do opposite things for various reasons, Belarus and Nicaragua carrying on business as normal so that the coffers remain filled for their respective "leaders".
Yeah, I think India may be fudging the figures somewhat too
Wakefield wasn't an expert in that field. He was (according to Wikipedia) a gastroenterologist. Not a specialist in vaccines or autism. His paper was published on the basis of his 'research' which he fiddled to make the results say what he wanted. It shouldn't have been published in the first place really, but you can't blame the Lancet too much - why would a doctor falsify evidence in such a manner? You'd normally assume that the Hippocratic oath meant something.
Once it had been published, it was picked up and promoted by the Mail (unsurprisingly) and it ballooned from there, leading directly to deaths and disabilities for children. Their columnists were still promoting the story long after he'd been found out.
You're still missing the point! Regardless of how his credibility panned out later on, they fact remains that the public believed it to be true. I watched a documentary recently about the resurgence of measles in the UK and some people still think there is a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Once these "facts" get into the public domain they are hard to dispel.
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The lowest that the MMR vaccination rate fell to was around 80% so the public didn't believe it to be true. A section of the public did, no doubt after being repeatedly misled by the likes of the Mail, Express, Telegraph, and The Sun.
Apparently the vaccination rate has recently been falling again (though it is still over 90% in most places), spurred on by bullshit circulating on social media.
But that's all irrelevant. I'm really not sure why you brought up MMR in the first place here. One of the government's former chief scientific advisors criticised the failure to properly implement the strategy which he and others worked on. What does that have to do with lies about MMR from a non-expert? This bloke actually worked for the government for 7 years - it's not as if he was some sort of a maverick outsider who doesn't know what he's talking about.
On a brighter note can people think of companies/ businesses that will thrive during this virus, I will suggest the first one, car insurance companies, less traffic = less accidents so less they have to pay out.
On a brighter note can people think of companies/ businesses that will thrive during this virus, I will suggest the first one, car insurance companies, less traffic = less accidents so less they have to pay out.
I saw a report earlier and the person being interviewed said yes there are less vehicles on the road but people seem to be speeding more, if this is the case and they have an accident then their stupidity would potentially put rescue services at risk.
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FFS, we have a virus pandemic currently which is killing thousands of people around the world and all some people seem to be bothered about is scoring political points against each other.
Surely in times like these we should all be pulling in the same direction. It seems that some people really need to give their heads a wobble.
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