Question: what was the worst thing that ever happend in science

Andrew Scott answered on 23 Jun 2015:

There was a doctor (he’s not allowed to work as a doctor anymore) that wrote an article in 1998 that said that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine could be linked to autism. BUT this man, Andrew Wakefield, faked the results. Of course, no one new that the results were faked when they were published and a lot of people were very scared of giving children the MMR vaccine.

Since then, scientists have done loads of proper research to show that there is no link between this vaccine and autism. Thankfully, this kind of thing doesn’t happen very often.

It’s very important that everyone who can have the vaccine does have the vaccine. This is because some people can’t have the vaccine and the vaccine won’t work in other people. If everyone else gets the vaccine, then the people who can’t have the vaccine or it doesn’t work on won’t get the disease, because there will be no one with the disease to catch it from. Because of the fraud that Andrew Wakefield committed, a lot of people caught measles who didn’t need to. Getting measles is pretty nasty and it can even kill people.