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The Center for American Progress reports:
A large new study--which was published just in time for National Infant Immunization Week--is being hailed as the final "nail in the coffin" of the persistent conspiracy theory that [the vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) is] linked to autism.
[...]In the years since [disgraced British doctor Andrew] Wakefield's [completely discredited] research on the topic, several different studies have reaffirmed the safety of the recommended childhood vaccination schedule. No credible evidence has emerged that vaccines have any effect on autism rates.
Now, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has ruled out a potential vaccine-autism link even among a small group of children who are more at risk for the disorder. The review of nearly 100,000 children found (paywall) that even when toddlers have an older sibling who has been placed on the autism spectrum--which means they could have a greater chance of developing autism themselves--getting the MMR shot does nothing to increase that risk.
This still doesn't solve the Jenny McCarthy (bimbo) problem:
A lie can go around the world while the truth is lacing up its boots.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @11:33PM
There will never be a final "nail in the coffin" that will destroy the conspiracy theory. You can't reason someone out a position that they didn't reason themselves into.
I also don't blame Jenny McCarthy (spelling is wrong in the summary). She is ignorant and lacks the education to understand her son's disorder and how vaccines had nothing to do with it. She is a true believer based on her own as well as other's anecdotal evidence and a fraudulent study. The real problem is that she has never been qualified to make any scientific or medical claims, but she has still been given many opportunities to speak about vaccines and autism.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by krishnoid on Wednesday May 06 2015, @11:45PM
The real problem is that so many people follow her advice in preference to impartially researching her claims.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 06 2015, @11:53PM
The real problem is that there's many problems.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @01:47AM
The real problem is that she's the load her mother should have swallowed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @11:58PM
impartially researching her claims
There are many people that are incapable of doing this. They lack the education or intrinsic ability to critically evaluate evidence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @11:43PM
Yet they're apparently capable of calling other research, claims, and evidence bullshit, just not the ones that support what they want to believe. They're placing the words of an uneducated idiot, like themselves, above people who have studied this stuff for years or decades. And this isn't the only "controversial" area where this kind of shit is happening.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday May 07 2015, @12:18AM
Is "conspiracy theorist" the new "terrorist," "pedophile," or "racist?"
Some people would like to think so. Conspiracy Theory [imdb.com] is a good movie, by the way. And features Captain Jean-Luc Piccard [wordpress.com] as a sadistic corporate closet-torturer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @01:51AM
Mel Gibson's face looks a little like a young Bruce Campbell on the imdb poster/box art.
(Score: 3, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday May 07 2015, @09:01AM
> a sadistic corporate closet-torturer.
Sounds to me like those closets deserve it.
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Thursday May 07 2015, @03:15PM
There will never be a final "nail in the coffin" that will destroy the conspiracy theory.
Yes there will, you just need to choose the right coffins, preferably ones filled with the anti-vaxers.
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