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Architect of the modern anti-vax movement finds new life in MAGA-world
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November 25, 2025
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2:18Now PlayingThe architect of the modern anti-vaccine movement and disgraced researcher Andrew Wakefield is having a reemergence as he embraced by the new MAHA and MAGA coalition.
After Wakefield published a flawed study linking MMR vaccines to autism, he was largely cast aside, his medical license stripped, his work debunked. But, with the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and MAHA's influence on the president's medical agenda, Wakefield is now back in a position of real influence. MS NOW's Brandy Zadrozny reports.
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