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Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts

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14 pointsjseliger13 comments

I didn't think the wsj had a paywall for incoming links. This is stupid. How did this get voted so high?

Combination of people who already have access and people who use the 'search for the headline on Google' trick before clicking the link.

This has never, not once, worked for me from an iOS device. With or without cookies disabled. WSJ articles are always black holes to me.

Does anyone else find it incredible that one person[1] with a single study of twelve patients could single-handedly cause such a shitstorm?

[1] There were twelve authors on the paper, but Wakefield seems to get the lion's share of the credit/blame.

Subscribers only? I can't see the article.

Just Google the article title and click the first link, they allow referrers.

Does not work for me.

Use a different browser, and "reset" it before searching.

E.g. I normally browse using Firefox. To read this article, I switched to Safari, and did "Reset Safari". Then I searched Google for the two words "autism measles" (no quotes) and the WSJ article was the first link in the News results.

The WSJ is a little trickier than some sites, in that they try a little harder to keep you from seeing the article via searching thru news if you've previously clicked on the link.

Of course if they really wanted to prevent this, they could. E.g. I haven't figured out a way to read FT articles without signing op for their "free" membership, which gives me something like 8 articles a month.

Contrast with e.g. NY Times. Just browse with NoScript on, and clear cookies between sessions, and you can click on as many stories as you want. YMMV.

Here you go: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

This might work (redirecting through google opens it up): https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

Someone (/u/darkishdave) over at reddit did this http://imgur.com/Lt40Yec

You don't really need to. A single lying 'autism researcher', a 'lead with the scary' media, and a stupid, gullible public has led to a resurgence of cured diseases like Measles.

Here's the relevant graphic related to the story: http://i.imgur.com/LhJJzgF.jpg

Does measles vaccine covers everyone who takes it, or do some people have to rely on herd immunity?

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