Up_Tilt_390
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So I stumbled across this article published two days ago in regards to the so-called links between vaccinations and autism that was recently claimed to be confirmed by the FDA. Except it wasn't.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/11/20/another-false-vaccination-autism-linkage-fringe-12174
The full article reveals that there was no admission of a link between vaccines and autism, merely the legal requirement to report possible adverse effects. There still remains no proven link between autism and vaccinations aside from Andrew Wakefield's report, which was filled with manipulated and fraudulent evidence, and he was struck off from the UK medical register as a result.
Yet anti-vaccination groups such as Generation Rescue still perpetuate this lie despite the fact that it's been debunked. Are they genuinely ignorant, or do they have something to seriously gain from this? I know creationists will deny evolution because it gets in the way of their beloved fantasy of 'god did it', even if there is still a great deal of ignorance behind it, but I don't know what anti-vax movements gain from this.
The difference between creationists and anti-vaxxers are that the former doesn't really put anyone at risk as far as I know, whereas the letter puts not only their children at risk, but other children who, for medical or genetic reasons, cannot get a vaccination. So I really want to know what they gain from perpetuating the debunked lies that autism is linked to vaccines? I simply cannot comprehend...
https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/11/20/another-false-vaccination-autism-linkage-fringe-12174
InShapetoday's headline is that the “FDA announced that vaccines are causing autism” I will spare you the web address link because this level of disingenuous misinformation may be contagious. Here is the subheadline:
"THE FDA HAS PUBLISHED CONCLUSIVE PROOF ON THEIR WEBSITE THAT THE DTAP VACCINE CAN CAUSE AUTISM. … A VACCINE MANUFACTURER ADMITS ON ITS PACKAGE INSERT THAT THEIR VACCINATION CAN CAUSE AUTISM AS ONE OF MANY ADVERSE REACTIONS"
The full article reveals that there was no admission of a link between vaccines and autism, merely the legal requirement to report possible adverse effects. There still remains no proven link between autism and vaccinations aside from Andrew Wakefield's report, which was filled with manipulated and fraudulent evidence, and he was struck off from the UK medical register as a result.
Yet anti-vaccination groups such as Generation Rescue still perpetuate this lie despite the fact that it's been debunked. Are they genuinely ignorant, or do they have something to seriously gain from this? I know creationists will deny evolution because it gets in the way of their beloved fantasy of 'god did it', even if there is still a great deal of ignorance behind it, but I don't know what anti-vax movements gain from this.
The difference between creationists and anti-vaxxers are that the former doesn't really put anyone at risk as far as I know, whereas the letter puts not only their children at risk, but other children who, for medical or genetic reasons, cannot get a vaccination. So I really want to know what they gain from perpetuating the debunked lies that autism is linked to vaccines? I simply cannot comprehend...