• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      She’s just copying Wakefield, he was the first. Prior to him no one had really raised the possibility because it’s bloody stupid.

      He just fed on parents desire to blame something on their child’s autism diagnosis. But sometimes things just happen.

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      I suspect they mean the only person with any kind of “scientific” presentation, and everything after that has been a game of telephone amongst the anti-vax crowd.