http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/24697/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-numbers/networks-nourished-anti-vaccine-hysteria-171-stories-debunked-autism-link <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> ABC, CBS and NBC kept debate alive while children died from drop in vaccinations. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/sean-long">Sean Long</a> </div> </div> </div> <p dir="ltr">Despite the rise in deaths from preventable childhood diseases, the networks spent the last 15 years fueling speculation that vaccines cause autism. Just in the past seven years more than 1,300 died from such diseases, according to CDC data.</p><p dir="ltr">The medical community widely refuted such claims and the medical journal that once published the study later retracted it. But for years the broadcast networks continued to report on the alleged connection between vaccines and autism.</p><div class='signature'><p>— Sean Long is Staff Writer at the Media Research Center. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@SeanLong717" target="_blank">Follow Sean Long on Twitter.</a></p></div><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-numbers/networks-nourished-anti-vaccine-hysteria-171-stories-debunked-autism-link" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Bias by the Numbers MRC Business Health Media autism childhood diseases childhood vaccines conspiracy Jenny McCarthy measles MMR outbreaks vaccination vaccines wakefield study Thu, 15 May 2014 13:23:59 +0000 julia.seymour 46260 at http://archive2.mrc.org