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        <title><![CDATA[Elle Macpherson promoting anti-vax campaign during pandemic]]></title>
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						<p>Maybe she’s spent too much time in the sun?</p>
<p>Supermodel Elle Macpherson has taken a break from <strong>shilling her many beauty wares</strong> and <strong>frolicking in skimpy bikinis</strong> on the beach to promote an anti-vaccination campaign led by her boyfriend, disgraced former doctor, Andrew Wakefield.</p>
<p>Saying the pandemic is a “divine time” to promote the dangerous message, Macpherson took to the stage before an audience in North Carolina to help boost an anti-vaccination propaganda video — just as Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies announced <strong>a new breakthrough vaccine</strong> for COVID-19.</p>
<p>The Aussie model took the stage with Wakefield, a former doctor who was banned from practicing after he presented <strong>bogus research</strong> claiming the measles vaccine leads to autism, to help present the latest installment in his anti-vax propaganda.</p>
<p>According to footage of the event obtained by <strong>the Daily Mail,</strong> after Macpherson was introduced by Wakefield, who called her his girlfriend, she turned to him and said: “You made this film during COVID, and it’s interesting because it’s such beautiful, sacred timing when you watch the film, because it’s so pertinent and so relevant. &#8230; And for it to come in this divine time where vaccination and mandatory vaccination is on everybody’s lips.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_16660757"  class="wp-caption alignright"><strong><img class="wp-image-16660757 size-nypost-inline-default"  data-src="/uploads/2020/11/21/elle-macpherson-promoting-anti-vax-campaign-during-pandemic-0.jpg" alt="Supermodel Elle Macpherson" width="300" height="450" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Supermodel Elle Macpherson</span></figcaption></figure>
<p>The 56-year-old model said she was “honored” to be sharing the stage with Wakefield and noted she first heard about “Andy” in 1998 — which the Daily Mail notes is “the year his now-notorious sham research falsely claimed to have discovered evidence in 12 children that the MMR vaccine caused autism.”</p>
<p>Wakeford’s false claims led to a massive wave of people refusing to get their children vaccinated and a subsequent measles outbreaks. After he was banned from practicing medicine in Britain, Wakefield moved to the United States where he gained fame by becoming a filmmaker and anti-vax campaigner. The disgraced doctor has seized upon COVID-19 to further his claims, saying “the death toll had been ‘greatly exaggerated’ and the effects of the pandemic were ‘based upon a fallacy’,” according to the Daily Mail.</p>
<p>Doctors and medical professionals slammed these claims and Macpherson.</p>
<p>Retired pediatrician Dr. Tony O’Sullivan told the newspaper: “The anti-vaccination movement has never been more dangerous and pernicious than at this time of the pandemic. … It is based on ignorance and selfishness. It is peddling lies about the safety of vaccinations and the purposes of them. Vaccinations are a hugely important public measure to keep people safe.”</p>
<p>As for Macpherson, O’Sullivan said, “I think people are entering dangerous waters when they have scant knowledge about vaccinations against science and dedicated scientists.”</p>
			
					
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