[quote=AN]I still think it was retarded to make those statements, even in 2008. Why didn’t they consult with the CDC first before commenting and giving credence to anti-vaxxers claims. That like saying those crazy birthers who claimed that Obama wasn’t American before he showed his birth certificate were OK, as long as they only made those claims before Obama show his birth certificates.[/quote]
I disagree. They really had no way of knowing that Wakefield’s “science” was really not science at all. There was a published paper in a major medical journal saying vaccines caused autism. And there were also people saying it didn’t. So, if you didn’t know that the Lancet paper wasn’t science, then, in 2008, you’d think that “the science right now is inconclusive.”
A published paper in a major medical journal is a lot more to go on than a bunch of nutjobs’ claims. ‘Course, turns out Wakefield was (is) a nutjob.
