r/MurderedByWords • u/JerryJr99 • 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/Jarppakarppa Jan 31 '25

And he was trying to get people to buy his own "better" vaccine that doesn't cause autism.

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u/DrWarmBarrel Jan 31 '25

No he wasn't. It's so much dumber than that.

He was paid to make the study saying the MMR vaccine causes autism by a company that made a separate vaccine for Measles, Mumps and Rubella as individual vaccines. So you'd have to pay for 3 vaccines instead of one. His study has been repeated multiple times and never been replicated. It was an outright lie.

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u/NFriedich Jan 31 '25

I thought he was actually hired by the lawyer of an Anti-Vaxx organziation, and then began working on the side to create his own company to sell the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccines separately to make a shit load of money

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25 edited Feb 01 '25

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u/wterrt Jan 31 '25

mercury into...morphine? did ....did you make a typo or like.......

is that just the dumbest shit ever?

also I can't find any sources on that (specifically the paralysis, but the morphine thing is wild too), do you have one?

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u/PotatoFromFrige Jan 31 '25

And it was based on the “feelings” of 12 parents who they had to go out of their way to find

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u/readthethings13579 Jan 31 '25

And the parents of the children who participated in the study have reviewed his data and found it to contain outright lies about their children.

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u/BrujaSloth Jan 31 '25

There is genuine criticism with Big Pharma, but anyone who is propagating pseudoscience as part of their criticism is always engaging in the worst faith misdirect. It isn’t that Big Pharma is an industry of peer review morticians and snake oil peddlers who overprescribe, oversell, overpromise, overcharge for a little pill, lozenge, powder, spray or shot to cure life’s littlest of inconveniences while causing twice a many catastrophes, it’s that these bullshitters want in on the action too.

Him & RFK Jr who raked in what? a couple hundred million are perfect examples of that.

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u/DrWarmBarrel Feb 01 '25

The thing that really pisses me off is that what Wakefield did is a legitimate Big Pharma Conspiracy. It's 100% what they are accusing all these companies of. It happened. It was proven, by gold standard science, to be bullshit.

But no this is what we're going with.

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u/No_Macaroon_9752 Feb 07 '25

Big Pharma is too focused on profit, but there are supposed to be standards. What these guys want is to make big pharma money without any standards applied.

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u/BrujaSloth Feb 07 '25

Absolutely no disagreement there. The only standards they want are the ones that favor them & them alone.