| Age | 68 |
| Birthday | 1957 |
| Birthplace | Eton, Berkshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Hoaxer |
| Claim to Fame | Started The Claim That Vaccines Cause Autism |
Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 1957) is a discredited British ex-physician best known for a fraudulent 1998 study that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism, and for his subsequent anti-vaccination activism. Publicity around the study caused a sharp decline in vaccination uptake, leading to a number of outbreaks of measles around the world.
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