Some of the many articles about it:

The notion that wolves fight amongst each other and the strongest becomes the “alpha” and the weakest is the “omega” and all that, is a misconception that has been debunked ages ago, and even the author of the study who called them “alphas” in the first place is pleading with his old publisher to stop printing the dang book already so this misconception can finally die out.

Wolf packs are more or less just families. One “breeding pair” and their pups, which often stay with their parents way into adulthood.

  • sebinspace@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 year ago

    People only ever remember the original.

    And only partially so. Conveniently, they forget the part where, IIRC, guy was just trying to promote his own vaccine

      • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        His name was on the patent. There was a second name on it as well, and that guy was someone whom the first cited. This second guy lost his license two years before publishing his paper, that the infamous one cited.

        • __dev@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 year ago

          Deer had “produced documentary evidence that Wakefield applied for a patent on a single-jab measles vaccine before his campaign against the MMR vaccine, raising questions about his motives”.

          He both wanted to sell test kits and have his own vaccine.

        • PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 year ago

          You’re the most wrong lol.

          He put out the study stating a link between the MMR vaccine and bowel disorders. Further stated that autism was caused by bowel disorders.

          He advocated people to take the seperate vaccines not not the single MMR vaccine. At the time of the study he was developing his own vaccine and had a stake in another, meaning his study had a strong monetary motive.

          He would become and anti-vax hero even though he wanted people to take more vaccines, not none.