It wasn’t just that the study was retracted, the author also lost his medical license and had a known competing financial interest in the outcome of the study. It’s literally a real life pharma conspiracy and these rubes are on the side of the conspirators.
Not to mention the US nearly entirely eliminated the use of Thimerosal anyway, out of an abundance of caution, and like two dozen national health departments committed to massive studies looking at the issues raised in the retracted article and every single one found no correlation.
You’d think Lancet retracting that famously fraudulent MMR study would have had a positive impact. Guess not.
It wasn’t just that the study was retracted, the author also lost his medical license and had a known competing financial interest in the outcome of the study. It’s literally a real life pharma conspiracy and these rubes are on the side of the conspirators.
Not to mention the US nearly entirely eliminated the use of Thimerosal anyway, out of an abundance of caution, and like two dozen national health departments committed to massive studies looking at the issues raised in the retracted article and every single one found no correlation.
Once something’s out there, you can’t do anything to convince people of the opposite. I think Wakefield even got convicted for this as well.