I guess the rest of us will need to figure out living in a world where we have conquered lions, bears, the Black Death and famine, but not yet the stupidity of our fellow countrymen.
As far as i know the fear of vaccines started growing because of Andrew Wakefield.
Andrew Wakefield developed a vaccine against measles, however the MMR vaccine was already on the market doing its job just fine. So how could he make sure that his vaccine was taken instead of the MMR?
He had to start lying. So he started to spread the notion that the MMR vaccine would cause autism. My memory hets fuzzy from here on but basically it was MMR vaccine causing autism because it would mess with gut bacteria and to prove that he was messing with data and his colleagues and until they realized what was happening the damage was already done. And over time the lie from Wakefield turned into the commonly known “vaccines cause autism”.
As a small correction from the video itself: it isn’t just that he wanted to sell the individual vaccines, it’s that the parents of the kids that underwent tests wanted the investigation to go through to sue the MMR vaccine company. It was all a sham from the beginning.
Anti-Vaxx is more complicated than that. In Germany for instance it originates in the homeopathy and anthrosophy movements that are pseudo-science nonsense fueled by fearmongering against scientific medicine and science in general, sprinkler with other esoteric conspiracies and a good load of white supremacy.
So there is different sources and now it all mingles together because of the internet.
My daughter has been out catching (and releasing) firefly’s the past week or two. It’s such an amazing little nod to doing something that probably every past generation of kids can relate to.
She probably has nearly nothing in common with her 5x great grandma but I bet they both caught fireflys.
Yes, but only slightly. Zoom in and you’ll see they’re not all lined up. And then, where exactly on Mars is the origin placed? What hemisphere? Which way do we now define as up?
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