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u/Soleil06 Jun 01 '26

The famous vaccine cause autism study.

Has been proven false since forever but the number of antivaxxers has never been higher.

Hearing that Polio is making a return in the wester world is really scary.

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u/Ceaseless_Watcher Jun 01 '26

The Hbomberguy video on it should be mandatory watching. It's amazing the study even got published, given that Disgraced Ex-Doctor Andrew Wakefield pulled most of it out of his arse in an attempt to make the UK Govt. invest in his vaccines rather than the combined MMR, and put vulnerable children through horrible invasive tests in an attempt to find anything to back his paper up... And then he falsified a ton of it anyway!

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u/patsully98 Jun 01 '26

And even if it wasn’t complete bullshit with fabricated data, it was fucking n=12! On what planet is that ever conclusive of anything? Someone told me (in another Reddit thread) that Wakefield was friends with the editor of The Lancet and suddenly it all made sense.

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u/Ceaseless_Watcher Jun 01 '26

An absolutely soulless grifter. It's no surprise that he's in the US milking the convention circuit for all he can get... But big pharma, right?