The Facebook Assault on Medical Research on Vaccination Science

There are two shocking examples and the first of Andrew Wakefield is well-known as the discredited physician who originally came up with the idea vaccines cause autism.  (WIKI:  Andrew Wakefield)

Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born c. 1957) is a British former gastroenterologist and medical researcher, known for his fraudulent 1998 research paper in support of the now-discredited claim that there was a link between the administration of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, and the appearance of autism and bowel disease.

- WIKI

Those facts notwithstanding, the anti-vaxxers sing his praises like they've just felt the light of Jesus.  The concept of 'fraudulent' does not deter them.

There's a movie, "VAXXED," which was made to justify Wakefield and this cash cow is protected as much as possible to ensure you pay for it.  Let's see if we can steal a copy.

Sure enough and it's downloading now.  Unknown if it's worth wasting any more time on this to fact check it but maybe someone should.  They've been arguing about abortion ever since the sixties so no doubt people have time to do it and it's unclear why they do not.

It gets better as they also roll out Joe P. Martino and he's written a book about the polio 'hoax' but he doesn't appear to have the education of a gas-station attendant and is instead a novelist.  (Collective Evolution: THE POLIO VACCINE MYTH: “THE VACCINE STOPPED POLIO”)

A search for WIKI about the fellow was fruitless so apparently his credibility is even lower than that of Wakefield but see above about the light of Jesus.

These are prime examples of the danger of social networks where non-science (i.e. pronounced nonsense) is spread by those with a non-scientific background but they feign all the expertise of medical professionals.  It's not a matter of one or two examples as the phenomenon is relatively common.

The most demanding question is why they do it when they're impossibly unqualified to represent such science, they're not discerning about where they find anything supportive of their beliefs, and they present all of it as if it's Gospel straight from the Temple of the Mayo Clinic.

Flash some lights in the night sky and that lot will likely follow the UFO all night long.

One of their favorites is the polio vaccine caused the spread of polio but that doesn't explain how the hundreds of millions of people who have been vaccinated are not spreading it now.

Science without peer review is nothing more than cocktail party banter and in these cases it may well kill you or, even worse, you're a carrier and you get someone else killed.  Take a bow on the return of measles epidemics and outbreaks were small but anti-vaxx was at the bottom of two of them and most likely all of them.

One of their smug questions is 'if vaccines work then why worry about anti-vaxx' and the answer is simple, my dull-witted subhuman compatriots, the concern is you will infect others who have been gulled by the rubbish you're trying to pass off as science.

Perhaps it appears a pose in presenting science articles here but I figure all the links are provided and I'm not deciding anything when you have every option to do that yourself.  I see that as different and maybe it's not and I'm just another pretentious online sewer rat but the effort is there to provide complete transparency.