{"id":69373,"date":"2020-11-23T13:06:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T13:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=69373"},"modified":"2020-11-23T13:06:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T13:06:44","slug":"elle-macpherson-shocks-promoting-anti-vax-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=69373","title":{"rendered":"Elle Macpherson shocks by promoting anti-vax campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supermodel Elle Macpherson\u00a0has shocked her fans by\u00a0promoting an anti-vaccination\u00a0campaign led by her boyfriend, Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor.<\/p>\n

Taking to the stage in front of an audience in North Carolina in the US to promote an anti-vax propaganda video, saying the coronavirus pandemic is a “divine time” to discuss the dangerous idea.<\/p>\n

It comes as Pfizer and Moderna revealed their coronavirus vaccines are reaching almost 95 per cent effectiveness in trials.<\/p>\n

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Andrew was banned from practising medicine after presenting his notoriously false research where he claimed the measles vaccine leads to autism.<\/p>\n

In footage obtained by\u00a0The Daily Mail, Elle says to Andrew at the event, \u201cYou made this film during COVID, and it\u2019s interesting because it\u2019s such beautiful, sacred timing when you watch the film, because it\u2019s so pertinent and so relevant. \u2026 And for it to come in this divine time where vaccination and mandatory vaccination is on everybody\u2019s lips.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s the first time Elle has acknowledged their relationship in public and endorsed his beliefs.<\/p>\n

Elle added that she was “honoured” to be sharing the stage with Andrew, saying she first heard of him in 1998, when his false claims about vaccines and autism were released.<\/p>\n

Fans have reacted on social media, telling Elle not to be “so irresponsible” and promoting Andrew’s message.<\/p>\n

“This is why Elle will forever be known as The Body but never as The Brain,” one Twitter user savagely wrote.<\/p>\n\n

“Australia, can you please take her back before she kills more Americans?” another user wrote. “We have enough lunatics of our own.”<\/p>\n

Andrew’s claims caused many people not to vaccinate their children, thus leading to numerous measles outbreaks.<\/p>\n

After being banned from the medical world in the UK, Andrew moved to the US, where he gained fame as a filmmaker and anti-vax campaigner.<\/p>\n

He has dismissed the coronavirus, which he refers to as the “WuFlu” after the city of Wuhan in China where the virus was first detected.<\/p>\n

Andrew said at an online Health Freedom Summit the death toll of the virus had been “greatly exaggerated” and the effects of the pandemic were “based upon a fallacy”.<\/p>\n

Dr Tony O’Sullivan, a retired consultant paediatrician, told Daily Mail the spread of anti-vaccination “lies” during the coronavirus pandemic would lead to “the deaths of millions more”.<\/p>\n

“The anti-vaccination movement has never been more dangerous and pernicious than at this time of the pandemic,” he said.’<\/p>\n

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