The craze got bad awhile ago so quite frankly his asshattery has probably resulted in the deaths and crippling of several children, and the meme is gonna survive for another decade.
I consider research to be very much a case of trust. Violating that trust is simply intolerable.
There are a couple of vaccines that I will challenge if I ever have kids - chicken pox being one of them (because frankly, I don't want them having to deal with it as adults once the vaccine wears off - let them get it over with as kids when it's less risk).
The fact that so many kids got ill with diseases so easily contained... *sigh*
Apparently the cognitively dissonant are already stepping up to the plate to spin this as a witchhunt. Wakefield clearly asserted that the medical problems of the twelve children on whom he based his paper came on after they received the MMR jab. Now that the evidence is showing that they had those medical problems before the jab, the tinhats are retconning it to "they had risk factors for autism and the MMR jab triggered the full thing so Wakefield is still our hero and vaccines are still bad, mmmkay?"
But autism doesn't HAPPEN that way! You do not suddenly "wake up" one day and become autistic the way you wake up one day and find out you have chickenpox!
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I consider research to be very much a case of trust. Violating that trust is simply intolerable.
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There are a couple of vaccines that I will challenge if I ever have kids - chicken pox being one of them (because frankly, I don't want them having to deal with it as adults once the vaccine wears off - let them get it over with as kids when it's less risk).
The fact that so many kids got ill with diseases so easily contained... *sigh*
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... *sighs*
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