Andrew Wakefield stated that he believed single vaccines, rather than the MMR triple vaccine, were likely to be “safer” for children. His study was published around the same time that officials began documenting an increase in rates of autism. Did Wakefield's claim represent real science or pseudoscience, and why?
Choose one or more:
A. pseudoscience, as the findings could not be repeated
B. science, because an experiment was conducted and data were collected
C. pseudoscience, as there was no control group
D. pseudoscience, as the sample was not randomized
E. pseudoscience, as the sample size was small, yet the results were extrapolated to all children
A. pseudoscience, as the findings could not be repeated
C. pseudoscience, as there was no control group
D. pseudoscience, as the sample was not randomized
E. pseudoscience, as the sample size was small, yet the results were extrapolated to all children