In which one of my students takes a look at how the coincidental timing of vaccines, autism diagnoses, the DSM-IV, and the rise of online information created the conditions to give rise to the false autism-vaccine link.
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In which one of my students examines some of the fraudulent claims made by medical doctors about vaccinations.
In which Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent science linking vaccines to autism is examined and dissected.
One of the most dangerous and irresponsible non-scientific mindsets of the last 15 years is the anti-vaccination movement. It can be directly linked to dozens of deaths and thousands of unneeded illnesses. One of the more frequent ant-vaxxer refrains of the past decade has been that giving the standard US vaccination schedule exposes young ones to too many vaccines/antigens/whatevers too early in life.