If you don't want them to give you the "you dumbshit" look, stop being a dumbshit.

There's a reason they're giving you that look, dumbshit. It's because, well, you're a dumbshit.

Its easy money...tell them what they want to hear and take them adulation, money and pseudo-fame.

Worked with cigarettes, still working with climate science, still trying it with creationists....same playbook every fucking time...throw dirt and mud into the debate to confuse the issue, claim legitimacy through association with someone surface-level legit...lather, rinse, repeat...

Its all a bunch of shit.

There isn't a single legitimate medical research study, anywhere, that supports the irrational idea that the measles vaccine is in any way connected to autism. Rumors and folklore don't count. The doctor who published the bogus study in the UK that purportedly connected the measles vaccine with autism, Andrew Wakefield, not only retracted the study, he lost his medical license. It's understandable how parents of autistic children are desperate for answers. Sadly, this isn't one. Promoting this ignorance causes so much unnecessary harm. Someone should take a good look at Dr. Thomas' license for violating his oath to first do no harm, and putting children at risk.

Maybe the state medicals boards should start cracking down on this.

I'd be looking for a new doctor, stat.

Though, with 15k patients, losing a few would probably improve his practice.

Regular pediatricians pressure you to vaccinate and some have a policy of turning away anti-vaxxers.

No shot,huh,but my chances of getting a Heart defect is okay. How many here remember the Measles epidemic of the early 1950's and again in the early 70's. How many have friends who developed Heart Murmurs or Scarlet Fever.