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Not a physician. Equally baffled, as someone who has rejoiced every time my kids have been able to receive a new vaccine, and who has counseled/cajoled/convinced many, many people to get a variety of vaccines. From COVID to flu to HPV to TDap.

I have been alive for 45yrs. I'm autistic. I'm not a medic (arts all the way). I know it is all insane from just being alive in the world. Not least as, for good medical reasons, I did not have the MMR* jab... and still am autistic! *contracted mumps very young so had measles/rubella separately

excellent explainer- thank you

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Facts are facts, I don't make the rules.

I didn’t realize this until I dove into the literature during med school and holy crapola. Formal research training has only further cemented this impression. The bar for vaccine safety is (appropriately) set to be insanely high—higher than for literally anything else we do.

The viruses can go pound sand. :)

Wow, sounds like vaccine debates in medicine are officially in the alternate reality league, next thing you know, stethoscopes will be optional

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For all real “clinicians” this is a truth.

i dunno but something like 96% of physicians got at least 2 initial COVID shots and many physicians would argue in good faith that being antivaxx is effectively disqualifying for being a legit physician

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It is SUCH a good video essay. Every time I watch it, i find details about how stunningly awful and immoral Andrew Wakefield was that I had blanked from my mind just to cope. - and I’m glad HBomberguy goes so far out of his way to credit Brian Deer, the journalist who uncovered so much of it.

It’s a reflection of past public health successes. Vaccines are easy targets for spurious associations because exposure is nearly ubiquitous. 99% populationvaccination rate -> “99% of people with X were vaccinated! MAKES YOU THINK…”

Concur.

Children will die. I've treated kids in the ED whose parents have had children die from vaccine preventable diseases. One parent asked if we could vaccinate their other kids right then and there. It is tragic that SM is used for such evil.

I remember talking about this to a group of RNs I was working with and one was like “I don’t really believe” and I literally clutched my necklace in horror

unfortunately not all of you

No I think it's the other way around. Non-physicians know vaccines are miraculous and can't understand how someone could be fooled into believing otherwise. It's terrifying. While physicians are familiar with routine patient hesitancy. So not as terrifying/mystifying.

It was once controversial that a heat engine could be used to power a vehicle. Now, however, there are tens of millions of cars beetling about. Imagine what sort of crank you would have to be to express skepticism over gas powered cars. That's how bizarre vaccine skepticism is.

It is impossible to reason with people who have been lost to a cult.

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So many of my favorite patients were autistic, along with their families!

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Ok ok, fine, but birds are not real

Yeah we do. I’m not in the medical field but I consider anti-backers to be on par with all of those. Completely batshit.

Is there anything—literally anything—for which we have more studies or better data on than the potential vaccine-autism link?

Some of us do realize. I have zero respect for any so-called physician who’s not 100% in favor of vaccines. I can at least have some sympathy for parents without medical or science background who’ve been scared by misinformation campaigns, but physicians 100% know better.