He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Vaccine: The
Debate in Modern America, and reported the following: Page 99 of
Vaccine drops the reader into the middle of a discussion of
Andrew Wakefield’s research on inflammatory bowel syndrome in
the early 1990s. The work eventually led to a 1997 paper in
Britain’s premier medical journal The Lancet that suggested that
the combined measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine might cause
neurological damage in some children. Today, health authorities
vilify Wakefield for leading the public to believe that vaccines
might cause autism.Learn more about Vaccine at the the Johns
Hopkins University Press website. Health officials are
absolutely certain that vaccines do not cause autism. They
brandish authoritative studies and compile mountains of
scientific evidence to support their assertions that vaccines
are safe and effective. Then, they are frustrated to learn that
40% of American parents choose to alter the routine vaccination
schedule or outright refuse some of the r