Vaccines Don't Cause Autism. Why Do People Think They Do?
Plus, the links: RFK Jr. is America's Huberman Husband, a deep dive on weight and inflammation, and the *other* wellness misinformation peddler poised to take over a huge health agency
Welcome to another installment of the Rethinking Wellness link roundup! Here I’m offering a small collection of links from around the internet that are relevant to the conversations we have here, along with some quick takes and occasional deeper dives for paid subscribers.
This time the take/dive is about why so many people came to mistakenly believe vaccines cause autism—and what the science really says.
Links
Here are some pieces that got me thinking in the past few weeks. I found value in all of these, but links are not endorsements of every single detail in the piece or everything the writer ever wrote.
Everyone wants better health. RFK Jr. and MAHA are selling the opposite. (
)RFK Jr is America's Huberman Husband (
)Pediatricians Shift Tactics to Sway Vaccine Skeptics (
)Related: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Emily Oster on vaccine safety
This whole series on Weight and Inflammation by
andDr. Oz is set to take over a $1.5 trillion health agency (STAT)
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Vitamin D and Health Outcomes, Part 1
Disordered Eating, Dubious Diagnoses, and Autoimmune Disease with Abbie Attwood
Take/Dive: Vaccines Don't Cause Autism. Why Do People Think They Do?
RFK Jr., who at the time of this writing seems very likely to become the next HHS secretary, has repeatedly refused to acknowledge the overwhelming evidence that childhood vaccines don’t cause autism. Many others in the anti-vaccine movement—and in wellness culture at large—believe they do, despite substantial evidence to the contrary.
Where did this false belief come from—and what does the science actually say?