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The whole anti-vax thing started in the UK. I went to school in the UK and we spent a lot of time talking about how horrible some of these diseases were and how
by radicalbyte 7y ago
The whole anti-vax thing started in the UK. I went to school in the UK and we spent a lot of time talking about how horrible some of these diseases were and how we can be thankful for vaccination and antibiotics.
It's more of a media thing IMHO: the media love scandals because it generates a lot of viewers. What better than a scandal involving your defenseless babies to drive those $$$?
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoIn fairness, that initial fraudulent study was all over the media, and it did appear to show a real link between MMR and autism. Of course it did, he was faking the figures with intent to deceive. The media and public reaction was, initially, entirely understandable. Particularly where few remember how bad measles and the rest can affect the unvaccinated. It necessarily took time to disprove and strike-off Andrew Wakefield. What I fail to comprehend is that now he's no longer allowed to call himself Dr, he is permitted to spread his lies in the US. Somehow he has managed to become and remain something of a personality doing so.
- radicalbyte 7y agoGood point, he was a doctor who had release a groundbreaking study so it was pretty rational to get worried about it. On a tangent: what has your post been down-voted? It's a good well reasoned reply to my comment. It should be getting up-votes.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoshrug Someone didn't like my opening sentence I guess. The first down landed in a second or two - far too fast for someone to have read all. :D