So, my an online american friend said"My mom didn’t want to vaccine vax cuzs autism". Is he joking? I know many people say thing like that but i thought they all were joking?

In my country which is a third world country no one believe shit like that even my Grand mother who is illiterate and religious don’t believe thing like that and knows the benefit of vaccine.

  • sbexpert@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Let me guess, the child was at the age where observable signs and behaviors start to appear and it lined up with their vaccine schedule?

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      That’s the correlation.

      For the parents, their world turned upside down, and Andrew Wakefield gave them someone/thing to (incorrectly) blame.

      A thousand deaths aren’t enough for Andrew Wakefield. (Paraphrase quote from Frank Herbert’a Dune.)

      Disclaimer: l’ll never illegally harm Andrew Wakefield. But if some authorized entity convicted him to execution and raffled off the right to throw the switch, I would buy one ticket for each person I’ve lost.