No there's really people that stupid. It's tragic.
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And these fuckfaces act like they’re enlightened.
And it's a growing trend.
The belief is real (but the claim is not).
A doctor claimed a certain ingredient in vaccines was causing autism, while also trying to sell his own version without that ingredient. A massive conflict of interest and he lost his medical licence over it.
But damage was done and people freaked out over it. In fact, the ingredient was removed in order to alleviate peoples concerns but by that point the idea vaccines=autism had taken off and it was hard to stop that spread of misinformation. Especially since the dude doubled down on the stance.
Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy, and RFK Jr. have so caused so much needless death and suffering. Fucking monsters.
And Oprah for platforming these grifters (among many others).
Just to add onto this, because Wakefield's conflict of interest is one facet of the stupidity of the entire thing. Check out H.Bomberguy's video about the whole thing, the poorly done experiment, the inconclusive research, the bone marrow autism cure guy, and how we went from "there is maybe possibly some interaction between some chemical in the vsccine and some as of yet unknown and undescribed connection between the brain and gut this chemical that may or may not have some impact on autism more research is needed," to "vaccines are 100% the cause of autism"
Andrew Wakefield knowingly and intentionally misrepresented his scientific findings to further his own career ahead of the interests of humanity as a whole. Thomas Midgley Jr is the only person I'd put ahead of him in terms of the damage he's done to the world.
People believe it like they believe horoscopes predict your future. Its a fun little activity they do with their friends but at the end of the day those that get vaccinated sleep fine at night.
Yeah this is a true thing. This person that knows me asked me if vaccines caused my autism.
Yes, they tend to happen about the same age, so can appear correlated when they’re not
Your friend is not joking. There's an epidemic of disinformation washing across the USA.
And thanks to the disinformation around vaccines, there are also several other types epidemics breaking out...
I know many who believe vaccines cause autism yes
There are people around the world who don’t believe in it. It’s not specific to Americans. You are basing this off one person on both the ends.
It’s so bad Texas currently has a measles outbreak.
I have very religious family that repeatedly told my 90 year old grandma not to get vaccinated in the depths of COVID-19. I have other, not-at-all religious family that works as a nurse… And is anti vaccine.
It’s like a parody.
…But it is no joke. I can answer questions about them if you want.
If you’re wondering why, it’s because many Americans are inundated in really scary social media and TV. That part of my family is constantly on Facebook, watching Fox, doomscrolling whatever. Even their church preaches some really, uh, interesting things now.
It’s this way because there’s a lot of profiteering. For example, the current head of the FBI is apparently selling and promoting some kind of “brave anti vaccine” health merchandise. The current head of the US health department made a lot of money and fame off vaccine skepticism. And their church clergy is crooked in ways I can’t even publicly discuss.
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