• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    The only person who ever basically said that vaccines cause autism was Andrew Wakefield and he was a con artist who was trying to sell his special magic don’t give you autism vaccine, which turned out to be the same stuff as the “autism vaccine” or in some cases saline.

    He had his medical licence revoked. He should have gone to prison.

    Only morons believed him, and only morons continue to believe him.

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        I suspect they mean the only person with any kind of “scientific” presentation, and everything after that has been a game of telephone amongst the anti-vax crowd.

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        She’s just copying Wakefield, he was the first. Prior to him no one had really raised the possibility because it’s bloody stupid.

        He just fed on parents desire to blame something on their child’s autism diagnosis. But sometimes things just happen.