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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Why are there people old enough to be mothers who are unvaccinated? I thought it was just people whose brains were addled by the pandemic not vaccinating their kids.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Because we are old. Wasn't the Andrew Wakefield nonsense paper from 1989? Oops no, it was 1998.

Unrelated, beginning of his Wikipedia entry is to die for:

Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956[4][5][a]) is a British fraudster, anti-vaccine activist, and disgraced former physician. He was struck off the medical register for "serious professional misconduct"[8] due to his involvement in the fraudulent 1998 Lancet MMR autism study that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.

[–] dankm 9 points 1 week ago

Because we are old. Wasn’t the Andrew Wakefield nonsense paper from 1989? Oops no, it was 1998.

Yup, and 1998 was 27 years ago, that's a perfectly reasonable age for motherhood. My kids were born when I was younger than that.

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