Vaccine misinformation persists as measles cases are soaring.
  • southsamuraiEnglish
    4•23 days ago

    You know what’s fucking extra stupid?

    Out of all the things possible to blame autism on, they went with something that’s so mild.

    Like, there’s a world out there full of toxic spills, ddt residue, agent orange residue, plastics, burning tires, gasoline fumes, etc ad infinitum, and it’s vaccines these idiots latched onto.

    Fuck, if autism were a purely environmental thing the way a vaccine is, vaccines would be the last suspect considering the lack of any immune factor in autistic people. Every autoimmune disorder I can think of has very clear signs that’s what’s going on.

    Someone needs to start an anti-misinformation campaign to blame autism on plastics, see if maybe the idiots will switch to that target and do something useful where better regulations happen.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    3•23 days ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    For years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has bluntly stated the truth: “Vaccines do not cause autism,” the agency affirms on its website.

    In an April 2024 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania, 24 percent of US adults denied or disputed that the CDC ever said that.

    The APPC tied the false beliefs to the retracted 1998 Lancet paper by notorious anti-vaccine advocate Andrew Wakefield.

    "The persistent false belief that the MMR vaccine causes autism continues to be problematic, especially in light of the recent increase in measles cases,” Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the APPC, said in a statement.

    CDC experts have cautioned that the US is at risk of losing its measles elimination status, attained in 2000 after a decades-long fight against the airborne virus.

    Now, in the wake of the pandemic, measles is having a global resurgence, and vaccinations in the US have fallen below target rates that would protect against continued spread.

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