Synopsis: Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu sparked outrage by tweeting that childhood vaccines cause autism, citing a discredited McCullough Foundation report co-authored by Andrew Wakefield. Experts, including Dr Rajeev Jayadevan and ex-IAS Dr PV Ramesh, condemned the misinformation as dangerous cherry-picking, urging retraction to protect India’s vaccination programmes amid rising vaccine-preventable diseases.

Indian tech entrepreneur Sridhar Vembu sparked widespread criticism from health experts and former government officials on Tuesday after sharing controversial claims linking childhood vaccines to autism, prompting urgent calls for him to retract his statements and warnings about the dangers of vaccine misinformation.

Vembu, the founder of Zoho Corporation, tweeted support for a report

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