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Autism and the MMR vaccine

How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine to autism, also the exposure in the 1970s of a Nazi criminal in Holland and uncovering Mexico’s Aztec past.

How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine to autism; the early rise of Hungary’s Viktor Orban also what it was like to contest the Soviet Union’s first multi-party elections plus the exposure in the 1970s of a Nazi criminal in Holland and uncovering Mexico’s Aztec past.

Photo: Dr Andrew Wakefield arrives at the General Medical Council in London to face a disciplinary panel, July 16th 2007
(Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

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Tue 26 Mar 201900:06GMT
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