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RFK Jr. and The Rise of the Anti-Vaxx Movement

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The Dr Who Fooled the World

There's a whole big sort of swirling panic about vaccines in the 1990s in the UK. They are convinced that you know this technological product produced by a pharmaceutical manufacturer Harm with their children. In 1995 they hire a lawyer named Richard Barr who Is going to organize this? He's gonna sue under this like weird EU law and he has to meet all of these criteria For actually getting the case to go forward. The problem that he has is that there's no actual proof of this Like he has to gin up some actual evidence that these people were harmed from the vaccines rather than just like oh They say that they were harmed by the vaccines, right? So he finds a researcher named Andrew Wakefield

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