With the production and distribution of the film Vaxxed and its successor Vaxxed 2, plus the notorious anti-vaccination/conspiracy video Plandemic, it has again become fashionable in some anti-vaccination circles to maintain that vaccines are medically ill-advised, provide little benefit given their risks, and are possibly pushed by a big government–Big Pharma cabal for the primary purpose of optimizing profits.
Of course, there are valid grounds for concerns regarding civil liberties given proposed government-mandated vaccination programs in taxpayer-funded schools. But to bolster the cabal theory, many want to claim that the original report by Dr. Andrew Wakefield of an association between autism and MMR vaccination was correct. They believe the subsequent outright retraction of that paper and its labeling as a fraud (Lancet editors 2010) was the work of this cabal to discredit a badly victimized Wakefield.