This is largely in part due to a study that came out that claimed that vaccines could cause autism. Andrew Wakefield and a dozen co-authors published a now-retracted paper in The Lancet in February 1998 that claimed that autism and the MMR vaccine were related. It provided case studies for 12 children looking into their immunization with the MMR vaccine. “The authors wrote, ‘In eight children, the onset of behavioral problems had been linked, either by the parents or by the child’s physician, with MMR vaccination,’” (Ziv). Along with false reports claiming that vaccines cause autism, celebrities have started endorsing these claims as well, celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and Donald Trump. People look up to these celebrities endorsing anti-vaxxing initiatives and they think that they should go along with their beliefs, because they are important in society. They have no regard for the multiple reports that have been proven again and again that there is no correlation between the MMR vaccine and acquiring
This is largely in part due to a study that came out that claimed that vaccines could cause autism. Andrew Wakefield and a dozen co-authors published a now-retracted paper in The Lancet in February 1998 that claimed that autism and the MMR vaccine were related. It provided case studies for 12 children looking into their immunization with the MMR vaccine. “The authors wrote, ‘In eight children, the onset of behavioral problems had been linked, either by the parents or by the child’s physician, with MMR vaccination,’” (Ziv). Along with false reports claiming that vaccines cause autism, celebrities have started endorsing these claims as well, celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and Donald Trump. People look up to these celebrities endorsing anti-vaxxing initiatives and they think that they should go along with their beliefs, because they are important in society. They have no regard for the multiple reports that have been proven again and again that there is no correlation between the MMR vaccine and acquiring