WI: Andrew Wakefield stays out of medicine

Probably not "anti-vaxxer" in the way that we know the term today. It would be regarded mostly as something that caught peoples' imagination in bygone days, and had a few followers in the modern era, but nothing approaching the social phenomenon it is now.

CAVEAT: I don't quite know how widespread anti-vaxx sentiment was before he published his paper in '88.
 
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