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Do people in America actually believe Vaccine cause autism or is bad for health? Or Is it a joke? (lemm.ee)

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So, my an online american friend said"My mom didn't want to vaccine vax cuzs autism". Is he joking? I know many people say thing like that but i thought they all were joking?

In my country which is a third world country no one believe shit like that even my Grand mother who is illiterate and religious don't believe thing like that and knows the benefit of vaccine.

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[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

It was started by Andrew Wakefield who was a UK doctor. He has lost his license for doing unapproved lumbar punctures on autistic kids.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, he started it from the UK, but it really got traction in the US so far. And the Americans blew it out of the water by expanding criticism to a specific vaccine to criticism of all vaccines in general.

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 38 minutes ago

He pushed that all vaccines were a problem by the time he got here.

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