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/BlisfullyStupid Jan 31 '25

You’re leaving out the “best” part.

A rundown on this asshole (Andrew Wakefield)

He was PAID to find a non existent link between autism and vaccines

He FORGED documents where he marked kids who were not in the spectrum as autistic

He TORTURED through endless invasive exams (mostly colonoscopies) autistic kids because he was desperately trying to get the results he wanted

To this day, he still claims he’s innocent (despite the receipts proving he’s fucking scum) and he’s out, selling books, spreading his bullshit.

This piece of shit is the main (arguably first inception) cause of all the discussion surrounding links between vaccines and autism and nobody talks about it

The fact he’s not in jail for life should enrage every person that lays their eyes on this story because it’s thanks to him that we have an endless list of mouth breathers still repeating the same bullshit he spread for monetary gain

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u/saltytarheel Jan 31 '25

I teach high school math and like to use that study to teach statistical study design.

It gives me some hope that a room full of 15-17 year old children can see the issue with using a sample size of 17 and making assumptions about causality without a control group even if your average dipshit off the street doesn’t.