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dootdootboot3 t1_j38oamv wrote

Giving the gift of autism to the bees

(Note: am autistic)

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whatatwit OP t1_j38qy2v wrote

I assume that's a joke, in which case :).

> It was in this context that, in 1998, Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues published a now-infamous and retracted paper in The Lancet, following which, in 2010, Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register for misconduct by the country’s General Medical Council. The fraudulent work on 12 children promoted a non-existent connection between autism and the MMR vaccine, used against measles, mumps and rubella. It propelled Wakefield to notoriety and turbocharged the anti-vaccine movement. He remains a headliner on the international vaccine-sceptic circuit as diseases once vanquished return because of falling rates of immunization. Many large epidemiological studies have found no difference in risk of developmental delays between children who receive the MMR vaccine and those who don’t

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02989-9

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dootdootboot3 t1_j39o528 wrote

Fun fact: I have never been stung by a bee or any bug Its because of my autistic swag

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