Vaccines do not cause autism.

Sigh. We have dozens of studies on this over the years. Vaccines do not cause autism. It is one of the most extensively studied things- mainly because Andrew Wakefield's lies were so extremely harmful to the public. We already found out.

Do you know the full story behind Wakefield's fraud? It is more batshit than you could imagine.

So Wakefield was hired by a lawyer for a planned class action lawsuit against vaccines even before he published his papers.

Without review board approval, he paid children at his son's birthday party for blood samples. These children had been specifically recruited.

There was no control group in the original paper. He just sampled these 12 children.

He claimed there was a link between the MMR vaccine and intestinal inflammation and the onset of autism in the 12 kids.

However he committed extensive fraud. The original lab reports for the children were normal regarding inflammation- his supposed mechanism for autism. Some of the kids already had autism before they received the vaccine. And some of the kids didn't have autism at all.

To make matters worse, he had several financial conflicts of interest. Wakefield had a competing vaccine. And he was set to make a diagnostic kit for this made up intestinal syndrome he had invented in the paper.

Wakefield lost his medical license and the papers were eventually retracted. But to this day he and RFK still spread lies about vaccines. They've killed countless children with these lies.

This is why I find Trump's nomination of RFK to HHS so dangerous. And have very little patience for these individuals.