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How Tinseltown sparked a global health crisis

By Tiana Lowe Doescher
Published January 18, 2019 5:00am ET
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How Tinseltown sparked a global health crisis
The World Health Organization says that the scientifically illiterate movement opposed to vaccination poses one of the 10 greatest public health threats of the year. You may have Hollywood to thank for this. Although the anti-vax movement technically began with a fraudulent medical study by Andrew Wakefield in 1998, the lie that vaccines have a […]

The World Health Organization says that the scientifically illiterate movement opposed to vaccination poses one of the 10 greatest public health threats of the year.

You may have Hollywood to thank for this.

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