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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Shanti Das

Revealed: autism charity chief has links to anti-vaccine movement

Anti-vaccine protest in Westminster, London in June 2021.
Anti-vaccine protest in Westminster, London in June 2021. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters

A British autism charity that received hundreds of thousands of pounds in national lottery funding has links to the anti-vaccine movement and is being jointly run by a campaigner who likened the Covid-19 jab rollout to a Nazi war crime.

Thinking Autism also promoted unproven autism treatments in testimonials on its website and directed families to clinicians linked to the disgraced former doctor Andrew Wakefield, an investigation has found.

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