One of the upsides of being the richest man in the world and one of history's biggest philanthropists is that you get to say exactly what you think about issues. In this case, Gates is discussing Andrew Wakefield and the entire anti-vaccine scam: Gupta: There has been a lot of ...read more

Liz Ditz writes to let me know that my blog has been targeted by an anti-vaccine listserv as one of the blogs "trashing Wakefield" where they should go and comment. If only these people showed some interest in how Andrew Wakefield sought to enrich himself via dead children, and ...read more

WebMD has details: The BMJ report says that Wakefield met medical school managers to discuss a joint business even while the first child to be fully investigated in his research was still in the hospital; and how just days after publication of his Lancet article, he brought ...read more

Andrew Wakefield's study linking vaccination to autism is the lodestone of the idiotic anti-vaccine movement, a movement that has led to the unnecessary death of innocent children, a movement led by former Playboy model Jenny McCarthy and actor Jim Carrey. It is a complete fraud: ...read more