CDC Report on Vaccines and Autism Caught Citing Hallucinated Study That Does Not Exist

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CDC Report on Vaccines and Autism Caught Citing Hallucinated Study That Does Not Exist

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Autism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

A CDC presentation on vaccines set to be given by an anti-vaxxer cited a study that, on review, didn't actually exist.

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