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whatatwit OP t1_j38qy2v wrote

Reply to comment by dootdootboot3 in Researchers have developed a USDA temporarily approved vaccine for honeybees. It's put into the Royal Jelly that is food the Queen eats and uses for her larvae for the first 3 days. The inactivated bacteria is passed to her brood preventing them from getting highly contagious American foulbrood. by whatatwit

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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