• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Even if vaccines sometimes caused autism, the immense good they’ve been bringing for many decades to the human species would largely outweigh the risk.

    What the anti-vaxxers are doing is akin to trying to convince people to give up electricity because some people get electrocuted sometimes.

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      There is literally no evidence for them somehow causing autism, though. It’s a myth that was put into the world by a fraudster.

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        I know. What I meant was, even assuming vaccines did cause autism in some cases and it was 100% confirmed, it’d still be a stupid idea from a public health point of view to give up vaccines, and it’d still be a risk worth taking for the health benefits from an individual point of view.