This Just in . . . Vaccines STILL Do Not Cause Autism

[Pyrrho]

Link: https://twitter.com/statnews/status/1109605790380380160

[sparks]

But...Vaccines kill and maim our kids Pyrrho! Said so in the bloody comments, so it must be true.

[Doctor X]

You want Greg to play with the Autism, Pyrrho?

--J.D.

[Witness]

Anti-vaxxers in Torino, Italy.

[Pyrrho]

Send 'em to Doc Bastard.

http://www.docbastard.net/2019/03/busti ... myths.html

Ooooooh boy. I have no idea what kind of rabbit hole I'm entering here, and this may end up being the 1) longest, 2) least read, and 3) most unworthwhile (yes, it's a word) post in the history of blogs. But fuck it, I'm doing it anyway.

If you've landed on this page, one of three things has happened:

• You've been a loyal reader, got an email notification about this post, and you clicked it.

• You searched the internet for "docbastard vaccines" for some stupid reason, or

• I or (hopefully) someone else referred you here from Twitter because you made some bullshit argument about vaccines.

If it's #3, there is at least a 99.21% chance (I calculated it) that you haven't even read this far. But in case you have, please immediately refer to the number I listed so you can quickly find out why you're wrong here wrong.

If that last sentence doesn't make sense, just read on. Everyone else knows it will all come together by the end.

[Pyrrho]

Link: https://twitter.com/QuackDetector/status/1114649479120953345

[Pyrrho]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... ad-to-pets

Sam Kovac can’t say for sure what prompted it, but in the past few weeks the Sydney veterinarian has been faced with the same alarming, beguiling question over and over: “Will this vaccination give my dog autism?”

“It’s actually ridiculous. I mean you hear chatter over the years, but just in these last few weeks it’s really, really ramped up,” he tells Guardian Australia.

“Most of the time people are OK, they’re not staunchly against it once you tell them the science and the statistics [but] we have had people walk out in hysteria, saying that there is absolutely no way their dog is getting [vaccinated] because they believe it causes auto-immune diseases or, specifically, autism.”

Kovac is so perturbed by the trend that he felt moved to speak out about it in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph this week, saying he didn’t believe anti-vaxxers deserved to have animals as pets if they were willing to put them at risk of diseases such as canine parvovirus.

“They are sentencing their dog to death from one of the most shocking, horrible viruses you can imagine,” he says.

[Anaxagoras]

[Witness]

[Anaxagoras]

Yeah, he's one of those too.