Andrew Wakefield
Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 1957) is a discredited British ex-physician best known for a fraudulent 1998 study that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism, and for his subsequent anti-vaccination activism. Publicity around the study caused a sharp decline in vaccination uptake, leading to a number of outbreaks of measles around the world.
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| Date of birth | 1957
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Andrew Wakefield is known for his role in the documentary The Pathological Optimist (2017) as Self.
He is also known for his role in the documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe (2016) as producer.
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