antivax & TERF rhetoric 

So, I had always (hyperbolically, in my mind) linked Andrew Wakefield's flavour of anti-vax with Lisa Littman's ROGD study, but I didn't know that they made the EXACT SAME mistake: IE making up a new diagnosis based solely on parental reports of the patients in question (and then hedge their bets within the study by saying that nothing is proven, while JAQing off the media).

It turns out bad science isn't very original, no matter the bigotry or financial incentive.

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