The man who started the anti-vax nonsense had his medical license revoked

[malaise]

His findings were bare crap.

That is all.

[hobbit709]

1. Damn right Malaise

There were idiots that lambasted Dr. Jenner too.

[DetlefK]

2. Look at the opening scenes of "Hysteria".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1435513/
The male protagonist works as a lowly assistant doctor in a hospital and gets ridiculed when he insists on hygiene and the theory of "microbes". He gets fired when he insists that bloodletting would ultimate kill an elderly patient.

It looks ridiculous now, but was very real back then.


Or "The Road to Wellville".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111001/
This is what happens when you have only a little bit of medical knowledge and the rest gets made up with pseudoscience. (A little bit of electrocution to revitalize the body... "He's hysterical! Get him an enema!&quot

[postulater]

7. And good thing Galileo recanted

Or we would think the Earth revolves around the sun! Ha!

[RKP5637]

3. Yep! Yet some fools cling to his nonsense like it was the ultimate truth! n/t

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

4. and Rand Paul isn't Board certified

...so the rich, bratty little snot created his own board!

These two quacks are taking the lead here.

[JaneyVee]

6. He skewed all the data and all of his papers retracted.

[jeff47]

8. Actually, it's even worse than that.

He was developing a competing vaccine. Since MMR was already approved, he needed to convince the government to take it away so he could make millions replacing it.

He also sold his testimony to lawyers who were trying to make millions suing the manufacturer of the MMR vaccine.

The people behind the anti-vaxx movement are about fraud. They are trying to convince people to buy their books and products instead of vaccines.

[tammywammy]

10. People seem to really overlook the fact he was making a competing vaccine. n/t

[malaise]

12. Always follow the money

Great post

[HappyMe]

9. I would imagine that a quack in training

will step up in his place.

[NuclearDem]

11. Hell must be freezing over, I find myself agreeing with malaise.

[Avalux]

13. Of course he did. What he's doing is a form of malpractice.

He's advocating something that will cause harm. The AMA doesn't take something like that lightly.