Media Analysis of MMR Vaccine Reporting in the UK
The Wakefield study, now redacted and denounced by the scientific community, continues to affect public trust in vaccines, medical research, and the media. In 1998 a British medical journal, The Lancet, published a research paper by Dr. Andrew Wakefield and 12 coauthors claiming that the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine was the trigger […]