One year after her divorce from billionaire Jeffrey Soffer, supermodel Elle Macpherson appears to be dating again.
Macpherson, 54, was spotted kissing former controversial British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, 61.
The pair was photographed in Miami on Friday during an outing at a farmer’s market. The sighting comes as a surprise to many who know of Wakefield’s controversial past. The doctor was a gastroenterologist in Britain before being removed from the UK medical register for unethical behavior, misconduct and fraud.
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Macpherson’s camp has declined to comment on their relationship.
In 2010 the British General Medical Council barred Wakefield from practicing medicine after investigating inquiries that Wakefield acted dishonestly in his research and conducted invasive and unnecessary procedures on children. Afterward, his 1998 paper, in which he falsely claimed that the polyvalent measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine was linked to autism, was retracted.
He continued to defend his anti-vaccine views in 2011 saying that his findings and research were not fraudulent.
TheAmerican Academy of Pediatrics(AAP) offers the organization’spolicies on immunizationson their site, as well as listsstudies about safety and numberof vaccines and gives arecommended immunization schedulefor children and adolescents under 18 years of age.
“Herd immunity is the benefit everyone receives from a vaccinated population once immunization reaches a critical level,” it says. “When enough people are vaccinated, everyone — includingthose who are too youngor too sick to be immunized — receives some protection from the spread of diseases. However, relying on herd immunity to keep your child safe is risky. The more parents that follow this way of thinking, the fewer vaccinated children we will have, and the more likely a serious disease will return and infect all of those unvaccinated.”
According to theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, no scientific study has found a link between vaccines and autism.
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Last June, Macpherson announced her divorce from Miami-based real-estate developerJeffrey Sofferafter nearly four years of marriage.
The couple got engaged in March 2013 andelopedin mid-July, marrying on the island of Fiji with only 15 guests in attendance, including the model’s sons with Arpad Busson, Flynn, 20 and Cy, 15.
According totheDaily Mail, Wakefield, 61, split from his wife, Carmel, months ago.
source: people.com
