r/MurderedByWords Jan 31 '25

#1 Murder of Week Your response is concerning, Bobby!

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u/Karpaltunnel83 Jan 31 '25

Fun fact: The doctor that made the "Vaccine causes Autism" claim has been disproven multiple times and even lost his doctorate for it

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u/squigs Jan 31 '25

Anti-vaxxers are weird though. Even if they acknowledge that the study is wrong, they'll still insist there's a problem and find a new issue - that might be completely unrelated. They're just convinced vaccines are bad.

This isn't unique to anti-vaxxers, of course. Belief perseverance is common. The takeaway here is simply debunking isn't going to change minds.