In his post on X (formerly Twitter), Sridhar Vembu cited a “review” by the McCullough Foundation, which "purportedly" analysed over 300 studies and claimed that early and combined childhood vaccination was a major risk factor for autism.

The foundation’s report, which is co-authored by Peter McCullough and Andrew Wakefield, reads like a greatest-hits album of pseudoscience. For the uninitiated, Wakefield (infamously) is the man behind the retracted 1998 Lancet paper that falsely connected the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine with autism. It was proven to be a lie that cost lives across the world.

His post sparked outrage from doctors and scientists, and rightly so. Because what Vembu is peddling in the name of science is purely scepticism. It is not even a debate but is disinformati

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