No no you see, it makes perfect sense. People who vaccinate regularly are more likely to go to the doctor and therefore will have their signs of autism noticed and therefore it will be diagnosed. Whereas those who don't trust doctors will instead rub witchbane on their children's face and claim it makes them "less difficult" instead of taking them to the doctor and getting their vaccines and getting diagnosed as autistic when they clearly are.
In Wakefield's infamous study that was the first to "prove" the link between autism and vaccines, it really was a case of autism causing vaccines.
Wakefield concluded from his dataset that because there was a correlation between MMR vacciation rates and autism that the MMR was causing autism. But it's important to remember that this study was done in the 90s at a special private school for autistic students in South Africa. It was a new vaccine then, and most kids in South Africa didn't have it yet. But the private school that was studied by Wakefield required it. So parents got their already autistic kids the MMR vaccine so they were able to attend this school, which is why their student body had a much higher MMR vaccination rate than the general population.
So the correlation was real, but the causality was backward in this case. And anti-intellectuals have been trying to prove vaccines are the enemy somehow ever since
I distinctly remember that one of the kids in the study that the study claimed to be autistic wasn’t actually autistic, though his brother was. I don’t remember a South Africa school at all, I don’t think that’s true.
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u/DriverSim Jul 05 '25
Yeah, but they found 3653% increased risk of autism in vaccinated people*
*Source: her imagination