My friends and I were Hanging out last friday and somehow the topic of anti vaccination came up. We were talking about it and came to the conclusion that there was literally zero evidence to back up the claim that vaccines give you autism. I knew that the movement started after a discredited doctor published a fabricated paper claiming that there was an association with autism and the MMR vaccine. What I didn’t know is that this was the basically the only paper to ever attempt to link both autism and vaccines. It has recently been discovered that the doctor who published the paper, Andrew Wakefield had a major conflict of interest in publishing this paper. He was in the process of developing an at home test for parents to screen their children for autism and project that he could make over 43 million dollars a year on the tests. So it appears as though he created an autism scare in order to sell his at home tests. I was getting relatively agitated during this discussion because one of my friends who is a microbiology major said that he doesn’t believe in vaccines because they don’t always work. This is coming from someone who majored and graduated with a degree in microbiology. So I don’t think the anti vaccine movement will ever really die out especially if the people who should know vaccines are incredible are some of the people saying they don’t work.
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