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In a review on Amazon, Anderson-Peacock wrote: “A must read for those who wish to be aware, responsible and informed … especially parents and physicians prior to injection.”

She also offered online praise for the documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe. The film is directed by Andrew Wakefield and is produced by prominent anti-vaccination activist, Del Bigtree. Wakefield is a disgraced former British doctor who was the lead author of a fraudulent research paper that linked the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism. The documentary claims the Centers for Disease Control in the U.S. covered up a purported link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

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On Facebook, Anderson-Peacock wrote: “It’s an awesome movie. Saw it yesterday in Atlanta with a q and a afterwards with the producer and one mom featured, Polly. They asked the audience please stand if you have anyone in your family, not friends but family who has autism and half the audience stood. The newest projected stat is that if the rates continue as is will be 1 in 2 body will have a DC of autism by 2023.”

She was also a guest on the Healthy Alternatives to Vaccination podcast around late 2016 — though her appearance on the podcast is no longer online — and has appeared as a guest speaker at conferences organized by the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA). On its website the ICPA claims that current evidence suggests mercury in vaccines causes autism, and past ICPA conferences have featured Wakefield, Bigtree and Barbara Loe Fisher, an anti-vaccine advocate and the co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, which has sponsored ICPA events.