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22nd December 2009 - Link Blog

The Worst Ideas of the Decade: Vaccine scares. “The movement blaming vaccines for causing autism emerged in the early 2000s, and it was one of the most catastrophically horrible ideas of the decade.”

Posted 22nd December 2009 at 9:17 pm

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