Neil":20mqcuta said:
Chopper1192":20mqcuta said:
There's zero medical evidence that the mmr presented any risk. It was the press giving column inches to crackpots and housewives, free to spout their claims with no scientific basis that created this situation.
That's just naive and reactionary the situation wasn't just created by vociferous nutjobs, there was something of a dodgy study, that truly was debunked in time, but at first there was at least some doubt - middle England housewives didn't cause the panic, they reacted to something from the medical scientific community that they couldn't have been expected to dismiss out of hand at the outset.
The "study", which isn't really what it was, from one lone scientist with no qualifications in the field he was writin about, was debunked virtually immediately byte scientific community, within days in fact.
Unfortunately, the common sense diaplayed by the legitimate axientidic commuting was ignored for years by the press fanning the flames by fixing credence to crackpots. The typical article would ne about how a mum somewhere would arriviste their child's autism/whatever condition they suffer to the MMR jab. No science. Not even a statistical analysis of the numbers making such claims. Just the regurgitation of claims made by individual parents around the country
Such was the attention the press continued to give to the matter long, long after the scientific community had set the record straight, that even today more than a decade on those of low intelligence would rather believe unsubstantiated claims made in the press than the word of credible scientists. And now people are starting to die because of this utter idiocy.