The same people who bemoan the supposed "lack of safety testing" with regards to vaccines are going to be among the most vociferous defenders of a physician who experimented with children.
This particularly noxious form of ableism in the anti-vax movement has been striking to me for a long time. The same people who claim that vaccines haven't been tested to their idiosyncratic standards are the first to support giving autistic children untested, potentially dangerous "treatments." The message is clear: Standards of medical and research ethics are only important for (allegedly) "normal" children. If you're an autistic kid, parents and "doctors" have the right to experiment on you and try dangerous and unproven "treatments" on you as much as they please--scientific standards and ethics be damned.
When will anti-vaxers hold biomed practitioners to a fraction of the (impossibly high) standard they set for vaccines?
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No wonder most of the people in the anti-vax movement's ranks deny the Holocaust. This is Dr. Mengele all over again. It's just plain sickening.
I've come to the conclusion that anti-vax attitudes are rooted in the belief that autism is worse than death. This is why the risk of death from preventable diseases is more acceptable to them than the tiniest, most miniscule possibility (and you know, you can't prove a negative 100%) that vaccines might cause autism.
@EKSwitaj: I believe you are right, but that attitude is not unique to anti-vaxxers alone. Autism Speaks put out an "awareness ad" that compared the odds of a child being struck by lightning to those of a child receiving an autism diagnosis. I posted more about that here yesterday.
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