Description
The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).
Publication Date
5-11-2016
Keywords
Gatekeepers; Misinformation; Andrew Wakefield; The Lancet; Healthy society; Journalists; Diversity; Bias; Mass media; Political dysfunction; Electronic culture
Introduction
Andrew Wakefield, a British doctor who lost his medical license in 2010, falsely claimed in a 1998 scientific paper published in The Lancet that measles, mumps and rubella vaccines cause autism and Crohn’s disease. His claims, though bogus, were widely reported and led to a decline in vaccination rates and new outbreaks of measles and mumps.
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Publisher
University of Central Florida
STARS Citation
Mauer, Barry (2016). If our gatekeepers can't function properly, we are doomed. UCF Today, 2016-05-11. Retrieved from
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