Freethinking for Dummies

Andrew Wakefield Goes Down Hard

I’ve written before about my strong support for vaccinating children and how, in the past decade or so there has been an anti-vaccination movement that has literally cost the lives of dozens of children in the US and UK of pertussis and measles. Now, the man who started it all, the darling of all the anti-vaxers out there has been shown to be, not just unethical and a sloppy researcher, but a fraud. I’m still digesting everything in the article and I’ll have more to say on that later, bur for the meantime, read it.

It’s good to know that sometimes the truth can win out.

January 10, 2011 - Posted by James Walker | Uncategorized | anti-vaccination, critical thinking, death, fear, freethinking, health, human, illness, pseudoscience, rational, rational thinking, Science, scientific, skeptic, Skeptical, skepticism, thinking, vaccination, vaccine