It was one “scientist” who by all accounts was a massive fraud and anyone with any semblance of smarts recognised that almost immediately. That the world is full of idiots is the problem.
Wakefield did manage to fool peer reviewers and got his paper published in Lancet, a top-tier medical journal (and it took them 12 years to fully retract that paper). So I wouldn’t say people recognized that immediately.
(And I just kinda hate “things were better in the past” type of arguments, in general. Things were shit back then, and things are shit now.)
One single comment by one shitty doctor in a magazine. He didn’t even say that. He basically said ‘some parent thought that maybe their child started to exhibit autism-like symptoms shortly after receiving a vaccine’.
I am not fucking kidding you. That was it! No study, no control groups, no sample size. Nothing. Just one stray comment that is shorter than this one I am writing now and it is the foundation of their entire theory.
Look up Hbomberguy’s video on the matter. It was the lancet, but it was an erroneous publication. Rare, but it happens. The study was grade A bullshit.
Yeah but it was 90s scientist who said vaccines caused autism though. Which just invalidates the point this tweet was trying to make.
It was one “scientist” who by all accounts was a massive fraud and anyone with any semblance of smarts recognised that almost immediately. That the world is full of idiots is the problem.
Wakefield did manage to fool peer reviewers and got his paper published in Lancet, a top-tier medical journal (and it took them 12 years to fully retract that paper). So I wouldn’t say people recognized that immediately.
(And I just kinda hate “things were better in the past” type of arguments, in general. Things were shit back then, and things are shit now.)
One single comment by one shitty doctor in a magazine. He didn’t even say that. He basically said ‘some parent thought that maybe their child started to exhibit autism-like symptoms shortly after receiving a vaccine’.
I am not fucking kidding you. That was it! No study, no control groups, no sample size. Nothing. Just one stray comment that is shorter than this one I am writing now and it is the foundation of their entire theory.
Andrew Wakefield definitely published discredited studies though… Or at least one.
Uh. No. It was a published paper in The Lancet, which they did not retract for 12 years. MDs have a lot of blame here.
Look up Hbomberguy’s video on the matter. It was the lancet, but it was an erroneous publication. Rare, but it happens. The study was grade A bullshit.