*just facepalms*

Too bad there isn't a vaccine for stupid

There is, but the GOP are trying to put an end to education. -_-*

I did a research paper on the supposed link between vaccination and autism, and I found no true link between the two. As far as I'm concerned, vaccines are mostly safe.

I was going to say there have been numerous papers on the matter, and yes some people can have complications, but there is no link to Autism, and that has been known for a while

Iirc there was one study on this that falsely stated there was a link, and that is the spark that ignited all this anti-vax BS.

But the Doctor also lost his medical license and the paper was retracted, a conveniently overlooked piece of information.

Exactly what Adleisio said, but actually to bring some surprise into this: It was all not for a religious reason or any matter of belief - that guy who manipulated the study targeted a certain base-component of many vaccines - and that while he had monetary investments in patents for an alternative base-component!

So basically you did what Andrew Wakefield should have done.

And this is why it's illegal to send an unvaccinated child to any school (except home) in my home County in Florida... seriously, you don't just 'get' autism.

Yeah, and a lot of new research says it is heavily influenced by genetics more so than environment

Thanks for bringing back diseases we were once close to eradicating forever assholes.

sounds about right, and even the doctor hosting the video is putting that very mildly.

I once listened to a radio shows years ago where the host posed the idea that what we call 'High Functioning Autistics' Today would have been labeled 'the eccentrics' which in ancient times... Which May have been hazardous to your health in ancient times, some people believe President Ulysses S Grant has Asperger's Syndrome

*shrugs* who knows

Anti-Vaxxers are the quickest way to make my blood boil.
It's the most harmful flavour of conspiracy nut. Like even if it did have a chance to cause autism, which it doesn't, is that really worse than having polio, which my grandmother contracted as a toddler, paralysing her from the waist down for life? Or how about smallpox? Or any of the other horrendous diseases we've more or less eradicated?

As someone diagnosed as having ASD as well, I just find it personally hurtful. My condition is not the worst thing that could happen to a person, and hysterical parents flipping out over one study that originated from a guy who was paid off to say what he said versus literally reams of properly conducted studies saying that it has no causation just make me furious.

I swear to god I'm being dragged back into the dark ages by idiots like this. Any development we make towards having a nicer place to live is fought tooth and nail by reactionary, paranoid idiots and the worst part is, they win, because stupidity is perhaps the only unstoppable force there is.

right there with you.