More and more people are beginning to realize that it is getting harder and harder to easily identify satire, as folks say ever more outrageous things.
And it isn’t limited to politicians and celebrities.
#SaidNoDoctor
What unbelievable things have doctors said?
A pediatrician making a recommendation against a vaccine that can prevent cancer?!?
What about a pediatrician telling folks that measles isn’t deadly in the middle of a large measles outbreak? Yeah, that happened too…
Not surprisingly, you can easily find “doctors” that hit on these and every other anti-vaccine talking point that put some parents on the fence about vaccines.
Would you laugh at the notion of getting tetanus from a deep puncture wound?
Apparently some doctors would…
Do you know why most people don’t get tetanus or die of measles in the United States?
Because most people are vaccinated.
And they don’t listen to these kinds of doctors.
But wait, there’s more…
Of course, these aren’t the kinds of things that a doctor should say, at least not a doctor who understands vaccines, vaccine-preventable disease, and anything about science.
What to Know About Outrageous Vaccine Quotes from Doctors
Vaccines are safe and necessary and they work, but you wouldn’t know that after listening to what some of these doctors have to say.
More on Outrageous Vaccine Quotes from Doctors
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- Another study shows no link between HPV vaccine and autoimmune diseases
- HPV vaccines and failure to communicate
- The Disneyland measles outbreak: “Dr. Bob” Sears says measles isn’t that bad, and an antivaccine activist invokes the Brady Bunch fallacy
- Kelly Brogan denies germ theory and the value of HIV drugs
- The Great and Powerful (Dr.) Oz, dissected in The New Yorker
- GAPS in a doctor’s reasoning about vaccines and autism
- Dr. Paul Thomas: A rising star in the antivaccine movement
- Poe’s Law