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The experimental group was exceedingly small. Much of the data was falsified. The author, Andrew Wakefield, had a financial interest in creating doubt about the MMR vaccine and allowing his potential vaccine to replace it. The study was also not properly peer-reviewed before it was published.

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Does the mmr jab cause autism?

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