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Originally Posted by Janszoon
After a bit of googling I realize I had part of that wrong. The belief is that the vaccines can cause autism not Downs syndrome. What I was right about is that it was a British doctor (Andrew Wakefield) who pretty much singlehandedly caused the hysteria. He wrote an article about it in The Lancet which I guess is the reliable source believers point to. It was revealed to contain falsified information though, and he lost his medical license.
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Wow. I need to check this out, seriously. It's just weird that so many mothers (from what I hear) have a hard-on for this, even when something like what you said is apparently known information. But I guess since I didn't know about it, it's completely possible that others don't as well. I would just have assumed that when a person's own child's safety is at stake, they would want to be sure.
I get the feeling that my cousin does nothing but research (and uses that as a substitute for instinctual/common sense parenting) so I just had the feeling that there was some source I wasn't aware of.