To the Editor:
It is disheartening when a letter writer references the antivax “Informed Consent Action Network” as representing some level of scientific authority on the perils of vaccination.
In fact, ICAN’s premise that “vaccines are bad” is founded on the work of Andrew Wakefield, a physician/researcher in Great Britain who along with 12 co-signers filed a scientific paper with the respected medical journal the Lancet. That study drew a nonexistent link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
May 4, 2022
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