• KoboldKomrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      To be fair, most people accepted vaccines in the early days. It really wasn’t until the 90s and Wakefield that vaccine denial started in the west. We should have publicly executed him for his quack theory. (Seriously the original theory is laughable, I don’t know how it got published. How the fuck does anyone believe “the vaccine puts holes in your bowels, which lets something leak out and causes autism”. “Oh and we tested 4 kids, and we selected them from a group that self reported.” ) We should be taking kids away from parents that refuse basic vaccines like MMR at this point.

      Vaccine denial only happens because of that shit, and the government doing evil shit with them, like hunting Osama and damaging trust.

        • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          7 months ago

          I wonder if there’s a cross-section of parents who want their kids to be engineers (or learn to code) but not autistic, or parents who think vaccines cause autism but are fine with it because they know autistic people in their life that are doing OK. It seems like the fear response strengthens the belief, but also causes them to reject autism that isn’t very high support needs.

          That said, there’s no correlation between vaccines and autism. I haven’t met a neurotypical engineer or programmer though