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.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    5 hours ago

    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.

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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      You’re so right. My wife cried for a week when she found out our child was autistic. It’s a desperate situation. You want to blame anything in order to find a reason other than “sometimes this happens.” Vaccines are the scapegoat.