The Autism/Vaccination Fraud
Jan. 7th, 2011 01:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeI have to say, I find the recent revelation that the "study" linking MMR vaccination with autism to be so terribly sad. I'm not particularly surprised that the study is a fake--it just seemed so obvious that the science was fishy, although I thought the guy behind the original paper, Wakefield (no longer a doctor now) was just being sloppy, not necessarily attempting fraud.
But as annoying as I found the know-nothing parents (the ones who had autistic kids, that is) before, I just feel really bad for them now. Crushed hopes are so, so hard to bear--and these parents, who were motivated by their love and fear for their children, are now back where they started. They are left with their autistic child and no answers. And now they know some fraud just manipulated them for his own agenda--even if they won't admit it now, they will eventually.
As for the parents of non-autistic kids who refuse to get their kids immunized, I have much less sympathy for them. You're the reason measles has come back in such great numbers.
But as annoying as I found the know-nothing parents (the ones who had autistic kids, that is) before, I just feel really bad for them now. Crushed hopes are so, so hard to bear--and these parents, who were motivated by their love and fear for their children, are now back where they started. They are left with their autistic child and no answers. And now they know some fraud just manipulated them for his own agenda--even if they won't admit it now, they will eventually.
As for the parents of non-autistic kids who refuse to get their kids immunized, I have much less sympathy for them. You're the reason measles has come back in such great numbers.
