Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response

hbomberguy · 13.2M views · 2021-05-26 · 1:44:10

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Overview

hbomberguy's long video dissects the anti-vaccine movement, analyzing Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent MMR-autism study, the media's role and Wakefield's loss of his license. It combines detailed research with humor.

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HN commenters call it the definitive, thorough answer to whether vaccines cause autism and recommend it as an entertaining deep dive.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2021–2025

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Medicine & infectious disease Media, journalism & propaganda Scientific method & science communication

What people said

faeriechangling · 2023-12 · Strong recommendation
hbomberguy rocks. His documentary on Andrew Wakefield has become my definitive answer to people who ask me if the MMR vaccine causes autism, a question I have been asked directly and indirectly for decades. Despite the fact I'd been asked this for decades, and despite me having much time to research this topic in that time, his 2 hour documentary released two years ago blew everything I had ever seen anybody say on the subject out of the water. [VIDEO]
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precommunicator · 2025-11 · Recommendation
I highly recommend this deep dive, with some entertainment value: Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response [1]. It shows how absurd those claims are [1]: [VIDEO]
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marticode · 2021-07 · Recommendation
Wakefield got off easy. This video does a good (and humorous) job of reviewing everything that was wrong with him and his study and it's a dense... 1h40m [VIDEO]
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