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Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response

hbomberguy

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Immunity and infectionEvidence and public healthVaccinesHealth claims and misinformationHistory of medicine

A comprehensive investigation into Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent study linking the MMR vaccine to autism and the resulting public health crisis.

What is the science behind the anti-vaccine movement, and is it any good? Let’s find out! My Twitter: twitter.com/hbomberguy My Patreon: patreon.com/Hbomb Kat's Twitter: twitter.com/lolkat CHAPTERS: - Intro - The Easy Version - An In-Depth Analysis of the Worst Study Ever Done - In Which The Media Gets Everyone Killed - How Not To Talk About Autism - Andrew Wakefield is a Lying Conman Who Wanted Your Money - It Gets Much Worse - Andrew Wakefield Abused Children For Money - The Part Where He Loses His License - CONCLUSION - Credits Get Brian Deer's book The Doctor Who Fooled The World: briandeer.com/doctor-who-fooled-world.htm SOURCES: docs.google.com/document/d/1wNJ3tj3X2HZ0PTnUGnlrjpFsQu6tYKYT…

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3 people recommend this

What people say. Highly recommended as the definitive, detailed debunking of the fraudulent science behind the anti-vaccine movement.

marticodein Hacker News • Recommends

On “Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?”

Wakefield got off easy. This video does a good (and humorous) job of reviewing everything that was wrong with him and his study and it's a dense... 1h40m link to this video

faeriechanglingin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Hbomberguy didn't want to make that 4-hour plagiarism video”

hbomberguy rocks. His documentary on Andrew Wakefield has become my definitive answer to people who ask me if the MMR vaccine causes autism, a question I have been asked directly and indirectly for decades. Despite the fact I'd been asked this for decades, and despite me having much time to research this topic in that time, his 2 hour documentary released two years ago blew everything I had ever seen anybody say on the subject out of the water. link to this video

precommunicatorin Hacker News • Recommends

On “RFK Jr.'s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism”

I highly recommend this deep dive, with some entertainment value: Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response 1. It shows how absurd those claims are 1: link to this video

bdsain Hacker News • Mentions

On “Fastly Outage”

I have seen the argument made that one of the reasons for high vaccine confidence in the UK is as a result of Andrew Wakefield's MMR fraud, which was perhaps debunked more effectively in the UK than the US. link to this video

scotty79in Hacker News • Mentions

On “94% of English adults have Covid antibodies, ONS data shows”

They had Wakefield creating antivaxxers and then they had a journalist that got to the bottom of his BS. This expose was highly publicised so people got through into their heads that antivaxx is BS. Wakefield then ran away to US and Brits lived happily ever after ... till Brexit. At least that's what's postulated here link to this video

pasin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties”

He conducted research for money. This involved ~7 children spending 1 week in a hospital. The children were young (mean age 6) and some had severe autism, so they had to be sedated, held down by adults, etc. His "informed consent" form does not describe the risks. link to this video (Where was the IRB during all this? Good question.)

thicknavyrainin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children”

The early research in support of this conclusion (despite the fact no subsequent research has born it out) was pure charlatanism, bad science and the theory is rightly derided because those who continue to propagate it do so out of naked self interest and financial gain: link to this video