Anyone who tells you to “educate yourself” probably barely made it out of high school.
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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The only person who ever basically said that vaccines cause autism was Andrew Wakefield and he was a con artist who was trying to sell his special magic don't give you autism vaccine, which turned out to be the same stuff as the "autism vaccine" or in some cases saline.
He had his medical licence revoked. He should have gone to prison.
Only morons believed him, and only morons continue to believe him.
The echoes of those morons are why we have a potential measles epidemic on the horizon
Edit: holy shit this post was 5 months ago—not sure how I found myself here
Oh you really embarrassed yourself there. Fancy replying to such an old post, the height bad form.
I'll make sure to give myself the requisite 5 weeks in the Badger pit
Oh there have been plenty of others who also have said it, like Jenna Mccarthy
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.
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.
You're missing a lot of information.
they said to "educate yourself", not "get education from experts and professors"
checkmate
I did my residency for 3 years on TikTok and I have a PHD from YouTube.
You joke, but I have watched so many YouTube tutorials on unreal engine, Godot, and Blender to learn game development stuff. I wouldn't say I'm an expert. But I definitely know a lot more than I did a few years ago.
I'm going to guess you did more than just watch videos... If you also applied that knowledge in practical work, you did educate yourself on how to use those tools.
Whatever you made is the validation/grading of your education. IMO that's a perfectly valid way to get an education, for those kinds of topics. It's much more risky to grade yourself on abstract knowledge where you can't directly make something and see if it works or not.
So I should start practicing my random medical knowledge from the internet on real subjects! Got it. Thanks!
If they start bleeding unexpectedly just send them to the waiting room while you look it up on YouTube!
What do actual doctors who have studied for years know?!? My grandad said rub some dirt in it. Sure, my niece died of e-coli, but it wasn’t the rare pork, she just didn’t pray hard enough.
But how many years of youtube study? How long has she been writing papers for anonymous society? I think all her medical practice and education shows how really uneducated she is.
Oh yeah? Well, how many Youtube videos has this elitist "scientist" published? How many suppliment pills has she sold online? Why should I trust her?
"Not gonna vaccinate my kids, but I'll be sure to smoke and drink plenty of alcohol while pregnant." - These people
NO I MEAN FUNNEL DOWN THE ABSOLUTE FIREHOSE OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES SOCIAL MEDIA FORCED DOWN MY THROAT!!!!!!!!
Oh, to have the unearned confidence of the mediocre idiot telling the doctor to get educated
IMO, it's a bit like telling a fish to learn to swim.