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Except it was science which told them vaccinations were dangerous and caused autism in the first place. Now of course the scientific position has (rightly) chan
by krschultz 12y ago
Except it was science which told them vaccinations were dangerous and caused autism in the first place. Now of course the scientific position has (rightly) changed, but we have to explain when it wasn't correct before, and is broken now.
That's 100% false. The scientific consensus has always been that vaccines are safe and effective, and do not cause autism. One individual paper that said otherwise was an outlier, and was relatively quickly debunked.
It's important to differentiate between a single paper written by a scientist, and the scientific consensus, which is what the bulk of scientists agree is right. It's not that the consensus is never wrong, but it is wrong a lot less often than a individual paper is wrong.
The consensus on vaccines has never changed and to desribe it as such is misleading.
- CJefferson 12y agoSorry, I should probably have put science in quotes, or more particularly, many media outlets suggested that science believed that vaccines were dangerous, and caused autism. In general the media made the process of the debunking much more confusing than it had to be.