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BeforeThe anti-vaccine movement is a health-related digital political movement that uses social media platforms to challenge public health policies and vaccine mandates. ## Movement Evolution **1990s-2000s: Early Formation** The modern movement began with concerns about the MMR vaccine and autism, spreading through early internet forums and alternative health websites. **2000s-2010s: Social Media Expansion** Facebook groups and YouTube channels became primary organizing spaces, sharing personal testimonies and alternative health information. **2020-2021: COVID-19 Mainstream Integration** The …

AfterOpposition to vaccination is much older than the internet. What this page records is the movement's modern form, which is bound up with one paper and its retraction. ## The 1998 paper and its retraction In 1998 *The Lancet* published a paper by Wakefield and colleagues that was taken as raising a link between the MMR vaccine and developmental disorder. In 2010 *The Lancet* retracted it. The retraction notice is a separate published document with its own DOI, and both are cited above so that the paper cannot be found through this page without its retraction attached. The retraction did not …