The Despicable Andrew Wakefield’s Outright Fraud
I recently came across a book published in 2013 titled How to Fake a Moon Landing by graphic novelist Darryl Cunningham. The book attacks the different aspects of science denial, using comics, photographs, and diagrams to show how information is manipulated by all sides of the ideological spectrum.
Over and over Wakefield’s claims have been debunked and proven false. Irrefutable evidence shows his undisclosed financial complicity in deliberate fraud. His disregard for the truth has been deemed the most significant research fraud of the 20th century.
In the media clutter, the story of who Andrew Wakefield is can get sidetracked. His research is not based on a simple misunderstanding or humanly-flawed science; it’s based on an outright deliberate fraud.
In a segment from Cunningham’s book, a comic titled The Facts in the Case of Dr. Andrew Wakefield lays it out brilliantly:
