People are pointing out this Daily Mail vaccination campaign’s rank hypocrisy (but glad it’s changed its mind)

John Plunkett. Updated October 10th, 2019

The Daily Mail today issued a plea for parents to get their children vaccinated with this striking front page.

And no-one can argue with that. But as Dr Philip Lee highlighted on Twitter, it might have rung truer had the Daily Mail not been responsible for so many of the ‘MMR myths and scare stories’ itself.

Tfw you realise that being best friends with disease for over a decade may not have been the best idea after all pic.twitter.com/1WLScE2OKS

— Dr Philip Lee (@drphiliplee1) October 9, 2019

I mean this isn’t like shutting the barn door after the horse had bolted, this yes trying to shut the barn door after the farm had closed down and the site is now a Little Chef

— Dr Philip Lee (@drphiliplee1) October 9, 2019

Health secretary (last time we looked) Matt Hancock bigged up the paper’s latest campaign on Twitter.

Vaccines save lives. Great campaign from the Daily Mail on the importance of kids having the MMR vax pic.twitter.com/nc24xUa3ef

— Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) October 10, 2019

And people were only too happy to make the point to him. Don’t expect a reply any time soon, we imagine.

Maybe the @DailyMailUK will publish an apology for their role in promoting Wakefield’s junk science, even after it was clearly discredited. The harm they did in undermining confidence in MMR lives on, in UK and beyond (but I’m not holding my breath).

— EssaysConcern (@EssaysConcern) October 10, 2019

Are they in any way related to this @DailyMailUK? pic.twitter.com/SCxlt66t51

— Ross Lawson, but a ghost or something (@Ross_Lawson) October 10, 2019

Did MelPhil ever apologise for her role in this needless fiasco or did she just carry on regardless? https://t.co/VjycZZoJzA

— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) October 10, 2019

Good campaign, but I wonder who propagated those myths in the first place… https://t.co/v32F3d82mS

— Nigel Praities (@nigelpraities) October 10, 2019

Just in case you needed a reminder that the daily fail is full of shit… https://t.co/Ye5nKGkIxM

— Nick Ainsworth (@ndainsworth) October 10, 2019

To conclude …

The Mail running a pro-vaccination campaign is like Peck from Ghostbusters campaigning for all those ghosts to be caught because SOME reckless idiot let them out. https://t.co/OxzsjaelcH

— Eddie Robson (@EddieRobson) October 10, 2019

Source @drphiliplee1