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"Posts like this make me wonder who doesn't think they're safe so I did some light digging for anyone who's curious." The MMR vaccine (a 3-in-1 vaccine for mea

"Posts like this make me wonder who doesn't think they're safe so I did some light digging for anyone who's curious." The MMR vaccine (a 3-in-1 vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella) has been dogged by claims that it is unsafe and causes autism. These claims have been proven false, but the damage persists. I recommend anyone interested in this subject read this article: 'No link between MMR and autism,' major study finds https://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/no-link-between-mmr-and-autism-major-study-finds/ https://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/no-link-between-mmr-and-a...

the_af 7y ago
It's even worse: there are no reputable claims that vaccines are unsafe (in the sense anti-vaccination advocates mean, anyway). The only semi-scientific paper was the one which sparked it all, by Andrew Wakefield [0], who is: > "a discredited former British doctor who became an anti-vaccine activist. He was a gastroenterologist until he was struck off the UK medical register for unethical behaviour, misconduct, and dishonesty for authoring a fraudulent research paper that claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism and bowel disease" [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
- ceejayoz 7y ago
  Wakefield had a financial interest, as well. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2011/01/wakefield_tried_to_capitalize.html http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2011/01/wakefield_t... > In the new report, Deer describes a variety of efforts Wakefield undertook to make money from his work. For example, Wakefield and his associates predicted they could make more than $43 million a year from diagnostic kits alone for a condition he argued affected autistic children dubbed "austistic enterocolitis," according to one 35-page document.

the_af 7y ago

It's even worse: there are no reputable claims that vaccines are unsafe (in the sense anti-vaccination advocates mean, anyway). The only semi-scientific paper was the one which sparked it all, by Andrew Wakefield [0], who is: > "a discredited former British doctor who became an anti-vaccine activist. He was a gastroenterologist until he was struck off the UK medical register for unethical behaviour, misconduct, and dishonesty for authoring a fraudulent research paper that claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism and bowel disease" [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

ceejayoz 7y ago
Wakefield had a financial interest, as well. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2011/01/wakefield_tried_to_capitalize.html http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2011/01/wakefield_t... > In the new report, Deer describes a variety of efforts Wakefield undertook to make money from his work. For example, Wakefield and his associates predicted they could make more than $43 million a year from diagnostic kits alone for a condition he argued affected autistic children dubbed "austistic enterocolitis," according to one 35-page document.