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This doctor said vaccines magnetize people. Ohio suspended her medical license.
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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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I have no idea who Andrew Wakefield is, I honestly think making news articles about these people is just giving them more of a platform, and something to point at and be like "SEE THEY ARE OUT TO GET ME!! IM THE VICTIM".
Dumb anti vaxxers are everywhere but I doubt an antivaxxer in Bangladesh knows who these people are. Also the whole anti vax thing died out after restrictions were relaxed and it's barely important news hearing more of this bullshit we've heard about for years when it's less relevant than ever.
Not global news IMO.
Andrew Wakefield is literally the modern origin of the vaccine-damage myth so if you don't know who that is, you probably aren't a good judge of whether this Ohio doctor is notable or not.
Like, I don't think she is in that category, but you have explicitly made your own opinion moot, because you might as well have said "Seagulls? Never heard of them. Stick to birds everyone in the world would know, please".
She did world wide tours peddling her 5g magnetic crap. She's literally the source of that rumor and it is world wide.
Is she as notorious as Wakefield? No, but he's got 10 years on her in the bullshit arena.
Is it the most notable world event at the moment? Also no, but she is a global figure.
Jackdaws are crows change my mind.
This is such a bad argument.
"You don't know who this one conspiracy theorist is so clearly your incapable of understanding that we need to make news about fucking nutjobs everytime they are a nutjobs so that they get more exposure"
How is it even news that she lost her job which she obviously should have lost?
"Hey guys, we got some hot news! The surgeon who fainted whenever he saw blood lost his job!"
Wow thanks for the news, very exciting, very unexpected, it's totally gonna change things on a global scale for the foreseeable future. Nothing more world changing than someone getting fired for incompetency.
This is such a bad take.
You're not the arbitor of news. Being able to discredit her is important to a lot of people who have lost friends and family to get quackery.
To some of us, any argument you can use to bring those you love, people who are once upon a time intelligent, rational creatures, back into reality is important.
Her being disgraced may give her another 15 seconds of happiness, but it's another point of argument. It won't be a winning point for everyone, but it can be a tipping point for some.
You much think it's bad journalism, but you're not the arbiter for everyone. So, since you like to put your head on the sand and be ignorant about the people who spread dangerous medical misinformation, the kind that lead to mobs in Spain trying to pull down cellular towers, scroll past and keep doing that while the rest of us talk about seagulls
I know I'm not the fucking arbiter of news my dude I literally said IMO.
IMO = in my opinion
There you go, you learned something new. I'm not a mod I'm not calling for this post to be removed I'm just saying in MY OPINION it's not global news.
Edit: to add onto this point I appreciate that you think it might change some people's opinions on this anti vaxx stuff but after dealing with my mom's anti vaxx bullshit I really think anyone who's dumb enough to believe in this shit won't be swayed by someone losing their medical license they will just point to it and be like "SEE THE GOVERNMENTS ARE TRYING TO SUPPRESS US! ITS A CONSPIRACY!!"
Every time something like this is in the news my mum just believes her crazy shit even more. It gives credibility that the news and government are colluding somehow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
He is the vaccines cause autism guy. He lost his medical license.
Ahhh gotcha thanks, I probably won't remember the name though to be honest.
Wake = the thing we do when Catholic kids die from not being vaccinated
Field = place we put dead kids after they die from not being vaccinated.
Now, you will always remember.