Charlotte Cripps’ account of delaying her children’s MMR vaccinations sparked a wide-ranging response from Independent readers.
Many sympathised with her story and praised her bravery in sharing it, noting that even well-educated parents can be influenced by online misinformation and by past controversies, such as those sparked by Andrew Wakefield, the former British doctor who promoted the widely discredited claim that the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism and bowel disease.
