• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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          Figured the fraud mentioned in the wiki article covered the “dishonest” part and “wrong” was easier to prove. I can’t rule out the possibility that he’s in so deep that he really believes what he’s saying (not that it’d make the situation any better).

          Sucks to hear that you’ve had bad reactions in the past but I’m glad it didn’t turn you against them as a whole. Hopefully enough of the rest of us can get them and lower the overall risk of illness when flu season rolls around.

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              I’m actually the same way, I’m one of those that got myocarditis after the vaccine, but I also understand that nothing is side affect free so while it stinks for me I still 100% support the use of vaccines… Thankfully after a few weeks/months the heart palpitations stopped.

              I mean … Polio anyone? No? Chickenpox? Oh yeah that’s right, vaccines. They actually worked.

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                  Chickenpox. Ahem. We didn’t have a vaccine for that when I was a child. We just caught it and were miserable for a few weeks.

                  I’m sorry to tell you that’s not what happened.

                  You had chickenpox for a few weeks whilst the shingles bedded down nice and cosy in your nerves ready to strike again when your immune system is down. It’s not over and it’ll be worse when it comes back.

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          IIRC, he wasn’t even anti vax at the start. He was being paid to peddle separate vaccines and claimed it was just the MMR jab that could cause autism.

          Which is still bollocks anyway, but people will do anything to deny that autism runs in their family…

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            He wasn’t just paid to peddle the separate vaccines. He owned the company that made them.

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        And if only, it was just him in the autism field. SBC isn’t better than him on the piece of shit scale.

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          There’s a whole industry of quacks exploiting families desperate for answers and solutions when they feel out of their depth with a child they don’t fully understand. Makes me sick.

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      I love when people claim to not trust the science of vaccines. Vaccines created using the same scientific method that allowed the invention of the smart phones they’re typing from. The same science that allows for all modern medicine, energy production, manuacturing, etc.

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        most cookers don’t understand what the scientific method is. my brother thinks it’s like some list of formulas scientists use to see if something is true or not, not the entire actual process around theory/observation/evidence/peer review. they thibk “science” indoctrinates people to think a certain way and that scientists somehow are told to ignore everything not in a textbook. no explaining how wrong this is in over 3 years has helped

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        I mean, the scientific method produces mistakes - it’s just that the scientific method is also intended to fix those mistakes over time. Being critical of research is helpful for the correct functioning of the scientific method, but this has nothing to do with conspiracy theorists who will question the overwhelmingly corroborated general principles that determine the functioning of AC or light bulbs.

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      In even more fairness, reading memes on Facebook makes you even less of an expert on vaccines.

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      Perhaps agree she’s not an “expert” but she’s certainly “educated”

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      You can get into a research career as an MD too. It’s not strictly clinical practice.

      We’re all encouraged to publish papers.

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      Med school is definitely not a trade school. The amount of material I learned per day in med school was about the same quantity as a week of college.