Mathilde Bruhn I'm not autistic but it just boils my blood when people say vaccines cause autism. First because of what you just stated. Second because they act like it's a problem if their child is autistic. Their child is different, and they may need to learn how to manage autism, but there is nothing wrong with autistic people. I guarantee these people being anti-vax don't even realize they interact with autistic people every day.

I'm autistic and am currently in high school. If I ever hear a teacher bring up that link and say it's true, I'll prob just walk out

Riley Ranft the labels literally say they can kill you

there is a former family friend who is hardcore vegan and didn't vaccinate her kids. Her oldest son is definitely austistic. Sometimes I want to say, "This kid has been fed the healthiest non GMO food available his entire life, has never been vaccinated, and still has autism. Your argument is invalid." On another note, I hate that mom. She is a terrible person.

I know! Most people don't understand the consequences of not vaccinating their children. In the US, we rarely see kids die of infections that can be prevented by vaccination.

Everyone should read this testimony

@J Paterson How much of that is verifiably true? How much is based on what you think happened? My point being, has anyone truly investigated this to verify you have the facts right? My guess is no...

@J Paterson let's say it was the measles. you unfortunately were part of that 2-3% of children who still get measles after being vaccinated. sorry, that's better than the 97-98% chance of getting measles for children who didn't get vaccinated. plus vaccines also help reduce the severity of measles, so if you didn't get the vaccine, there could have been a chance that you went blind instead.

@J Paterson You're correct in your statements. I can verify this because I was born in 1950 and acquired measles. I remember being quarantined to my bedroom in the dark to protect my vision. I also remember polio and standing in line for the series of shots to protect me. I remember a friend being in an iron lung to keep him alive. You parents that don't vaccinate your children need to see the results of what happens when you don't protect your children from these diseases. I have seen it. Maybe you need to go back in time to see what the results are.

My mom was born in '55. When she was in the second grade she got German Measels followed immediately by mumps on both sides.. She barely survived so you can bet that I got vaccinated.

I once listened to a baby dying of whooping cough because of people like this. Aren't people stupid to think vaccines cause our autism!

I’m also autistic. People like this would rather have a dead kid than an autistic one, and that hurts, deeply.

​@@kitmillionrosswhat's their problems with it anyway?

@@J.R8765 Tw: discussion of ableist autistic stereotypes in media A lot of times, especially as it’s portrayed in the media a lot. It’s seen as a huge burden on everyone around. Like the autistic person is (on a good case with this stereotype) awkward and annoying af, or (on a really bad case of this stereotype) is a mentally challenged subhuman that makes the family miserable. So possibly to them, having the possibility of having an autistic child is probably them thinking they’re gonna have a burden on their shoulders their whole life. Like it’s a punishment and something affecting them and not the child. Especially socially since they don’t want the stigma of an autistic child or any disabled child. It’s really fucked and it’s just so ableist and it makes autism sound like a punishment and not just a different way a brain functions.

@@mythos2490 damn, fuck those people

Yeah, it seems like human stupidity is the only thing we have an endless supply of.

Fucking _literally though._

Part of me is convinced that earth is actually a layer of hell and we are all dead and suffering for our sins

Tragically comical 🎭

Yea except those diseases and viruses actually have a high mortality rate unlike Covid

Your teacher mustn't have been a fan of punctuation.

Strange, I don't have polio neither and I'm even not vaccinated!

@@ExperiencedGhost damn you're lucky

@@americantacos7618 Don't worry they will be dead before they can make that mistake with there own kids.

they changed the diagnostic criteria and polio vanished (into AFP) thereby providing the "scientific" basis for all the vaccines under the sun.

That’s awesome! I’m glad you recognize the necessity of being vaccinated.

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Hell yeah. You go girl.

God bless herd immunity for making you stay alive all those years lol.

Good job, taking control over your health!

I think erosion of empathy and community as cultural values with the increasing entitlement and self-centeredness of those reassured and validated by (often but not always online) echo-chambers happened. The wave of xenophobic jingoism that never fully receded following the events of September 11th and increasing political extremism (mostly on one side, lets be honest) and modern social media's ability to filter out dissenting voices when socializing sort of made it inevitable. Or it could be the naturally de-empathizing effects of late-stage capitalism and constant access to crushing news, meaning empathy for other people will swiftly drain and eventually break you if you don't just sort of emotionally shut off after a certain point. Maybe it's the endless stream of extremist, "we're always under attack," "It's Us vs Them," news that a large portion of the country is constantly seeing? It could have been the heartbreaking realization that if the for-sure-not-Nazi's 'hypothetically' started coming for minorities in our "better, modern, free country" fewer of the people we knew and believed in would have stood up and fought and more would have sold out their minority neighbors than we ever wanted to believe. Maybe it's all of them? It's probably all of them. A lot of things happened to common decency in the US. It's almost a surprise we don't have open and proud Neo-Nazi rallies openly in the streets more often. We've already gotten really into lynchings again though, so give it some time.

There is much less sense of “ for the greater good”

Individualism tends to make everyone more selfish over time. Look at all the billionaires in the country, while millions in poverty and suffering.

“Freedom”

Unfortunately, I don’t think “common” decency is all that common.

I mean it'll still work, change the carrot stick with an iphone at the finish line

Throw a ball in, call it ball...ball. And you’ll be fine.

Tiny children are not horses. True or false on Trump’s annual dementia test at the White House

🤣🤣🤣

Damn. Now I have to cancel my order of child-sized horseshoes.

Saaaaaammmmmmeeeeeeeeee

Quentin Brown Yep, I’ve got 2 gorgeous kids and even if there was a correlation, which of course there isn’t, why are they more scared of autism than death??!! It’s ridiculous and I also find it offensive.

I have Asperger's syndrome and while it can be difficult, I prefer that over being dead. =)

My sister is autistic and legally blind and would prefer restored sight over erased autism every time

Being on the autism spectrum is, as you say, Quentin, far superior to dead, blind or deaf. Add to that the fact that there is no --ZERO-- proof of any link between autism and vaccines.

Has she changed her mind?

Good. I like to think there are some subjects that transcended political differences, and wanting kids to survive is one of them.

I'm curious as to what some of the jokes were 🤔

@@meganstewart2832 My brother loves to date antivax women. If an accident happens, he only has to pay child support for 4 years instead of 18. Why was the unvaccinated toddler crying? Mid life crisis.

She shouldn't be trusted to teach children.

This is a really good point. His Trump segments especially look good in retrospect

Milk turns to kefir when it ages, and then it tastes even better.

@@nikajinpusno9563 spoiled milk is not kefir, lmao.

@@justinhamilton8647 it essentially is

This isn’t a talk show

there is, it's called abortion 🤣😎

THANK YOU!

People are already divergent

It was never the needle, it was always antibiotics.

Thank you!

Mat Deering actually a midlife crisis would be 1.5 years old everyone knows polio kill at exactly 3 😂

That's the most horrible joke ever. I'm impressed XO

Oof

Am I allowed to laugh at this joke? It kinda sounds inappropriate to laugh at this but I can't help it!

jeff sweet wtf

Lily Moore one more time for the antivaxxers in the back!

Wait... As a totally pro vaccine person who is genuinely curious, do we vaccinate for chicken pox now instead of making our 5 year old kids play with other kids who have chicken pox so we don't get it when we're older even though apparently after some time shingles can come up anyway???

Ash because 1. Chicken pox is ridiculously contagious 2. Shingles usually only pops up after you’ve had chicken pox in the past, there are some cases where you could develop one and not the other, but that’s up to how you’re exposed. The simple answer is vaccinate for chicken pox and tell people who have chicken pox or shingles to see a doctor and try to keep others unexposed. :)

Yes we vaccinate because it guarantees(99% of the time anyway) that the child is immune. My sisters had chicken pox when they were 7 and 3, I, despite hanging around with them and sharing a bunk bed, didn't get chicken pox until i was 18 looking after my partners nephew who had it - and my symptoms as an 18yo were way worse than my sisters(I almost wound up in hospital because I couldn't breathe). Chicken pox is way worse for adults that children and far more dangerous.

Judith Bellantoni Why even go to the doctor if you don't want to vaccinate? You believe in medicine when it benefits you. You legit are ignoring medicinal opinions 90 percent of the time, but think antibiotics are okay for when you have ouchies. Hopefully your kids ouchies aren't the ones that result in long hospital stays because the way herds are set up today especially in some cities your kids are bound to get something that results in a hospital stay if you live around people with the same ideas as you.

A real 4D chess move by you

Hahaha yeah same! I still make fun of my parents because of this!

@@bodowartke95 ^^

lmao facts

This horse reference did not age well😂

Lmao good one

Don’t tell them. Let em learn the hard way

The one effective against covid is the human form given for parasitic infections. For some reason, that important point is left out of many articles

@@northtxhomes. First, the articles mention that the Ivermectin people are using is DOSED for horses. You need a prescription to get a dose designed for humans so these people have been using what they can get their hands on, livestock meds. Second, Ivermectin has NOT been proven to be effective against COVID so a news source should not report it as such.

Madison Pheonix then commuted suicide

Madison Pheonix plays ice cube song today was a good day

Same. I do have autism, though. It's not that bad, really.

Fresh air you can’t cure autism.... how stupid are you?

Fresh air -- stop lying. autism is a neurological condition, you cannot cure it, certainly not with diet and "woo" you seem to love. I wonder - you don't trust "pharma" because they make money, but you trust vitamin-sellers, "detoxing" treatment sellers, as well as homeopaths? Do you know that they make money too? A lot more than "big pharma" because "big pharma" needs to prove treatments work and get FDA approval, homeopaths can just claim it works and idiots like you fall for it. Yet, you believe them. BTW - do you know that Wakefield made millions from his fraud and lies?

Wait, he was in the episode?! As the doctor within the body?!

Awesome bit of trivia, that!

Pirates of the Pancreas

"WAAITTT! IT'S OKEY NEVERMIND I WANTED TO SACRIFICE MYSELF ANYWAAYYYY"

+Zoe Clara That show didn't look interesting to me and the art style didn't appeal to me either but I'm a fan of John Oliver so now I might have to check it out.

See what Granny thinks of the article "More polio cases now caused by v than by wild virus" by ABC News

My grandmother had polio as a child. Was on crutches for the rest of her life. She was an amazing women. I had no doubts protecting my child and getting her vaccinated.

@@kevinsheldrick917I think what his comment is saying is that his grandma can’t understand why people are hesitant to get vaccinated, because from her perspective they are incredible things that save many lives

Well, sport, granny would probably say, “Wow, at its peak, polio was sickened, often permanently disabled, and even killed over 58,000 kids a year. Having LITERALLY 1 or 2 cases of polio a year, or none, out of millions of vaccines given sucks but is so, so much better than the alternative. And since people are less likely to get vaccine-derived polio in areas with more robust polio vaccination, all the more reason for everyone to be vaccinated.” Because granny would be a sane adult and not a selfish, ignorant, child-like anti-vaxxer.

@@franktheexpertstrenchclub9025The issue with polio is that most cases are asymptomatic, and when one case of symptomatic polio appears that means that there are approximately 200 asymptomatic cases, making it spread fast.

Samovar maker I feel so horrible for laughing out loud at this. Bravo 👏🏽

I only had 2 vaccines and somehow I grew up. Maybe if I had the 90 they give kids now, I'd be taller or something.

@@waynewhite4997 I've never heard of anyone who ever got close to 90 vaccines. Fear-inducing exaggeration. 2 was enough for you. Great. Honestly, 0 vaccines can be enough if everyone else around you is fully vaccinated and if the diseases that you aren't vaccinated against don't come anywhere near you. This is why unvaccinated people are called free-riders in herd immunity. However, vaccine-preventable diseases do still arise, meaning that unvaccinated people can contract them, get sick from them and spread them to other unvaccinated people (mostly infants who are too young to be vaccinated or people who are allergic to vaccines - these are really the only acceptable cases for not vaccinating). But I think you know all this. Basically, you're either not unlucky or you can thank your two vaccines.

Brilliant dark comedy

@Samovar maker It is actually 74 mandated shots. Many of these are repeat doses or boosters for the same vaccine. So, it's 16 vaccines and 74 shots. 31 shots are mandated by age 18 months. A Hep B shot is mandated at birth. These dramatic changes, to the schedule, were the result of the vaccine manufacturers exempting themselves from lawsuits in 1986 with the passage of the Vaccine Act. Vaccines are extremely profitable and all lawsuits are paid out by the taxpayers. So, the schedule just keeps growing. Was Scarlett Fever preventable if we used vaccines? We will never know. It was eradicated despite there never being a vaccine for it. I'm guessing the Amish are all very lucky. If you took the time to really look into this, you would realize that you are blindly defending Merck with very little information. That behavior is typical of people who belong to a religious cult.

Looooool. That comment caught me off guard and made coffee come out my nose. Well played sir.

Oscar Amador .....God bless you sir! ;D

Yes and some will argue they've just been schooled again

you sir have won the internet today. Bless you.

I'm angry at how clever that joke is!

But then again, parents are most likely neurotypical and can't figure out what is the reason for ther bad feelings and stress, so the kid is the punching bag of ther inability. To my expirience, the worst of autism is that you're magnetic for peoples stress, misbehave, nonsense and anger, which forms your life to be that of a solitary surviver in the jungle under constant threat.

​@nikitatarsov5172 I mean autism has a genetic component, so I wouldn't be so sure the parents are neurotypical, but it does go off that deep rooted fear for perfect nuclear families of having a "weird" kid. Anything mental or lifelong is a death sentence for these people

Ah, fictional propaganda.. these days 😢❤

Autistic people are actually way smarter in so many fields than othere. So many famous and renowned people are successful qnd recognized on their fields of expertise

@@antoniosantos9669 I always say "The advantage of autism is that we are right about most things that we talk about (or else we wouldn't be talking about them.)" "The disadvantage? Almost nobody listens to us."

An autistic brain is so much more analytical than a typical brain could ever be. Autism is an evolutionary step, not a disability or something you should take pitty on. Sure, evolution has kinks to work out... like with my son who is autistic, epileptic, adhd, non-verbal, intellectually delayed... but otherwise he is happy, healthy, and makes connections with the world that completely blow my mind. You cannot change without changing the way you think and the autistic brain thinks differently... let that sink in.

Lack of vaccinations doesnt kill people fool lmao

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21623535/

Akseer Khan you are so lucky just yesterday I was wearing a yellow polio.

galetaf eid Mubarak to you too

But, Akseer... you should be alarmed by the sudden absence of spiders.

eid Mubarak

I saw this comment before I watched the video and I thought you were an idiot

don't forget to add that during his fraudulent investigation into whether the MMR vaccine was causing autism, he was giving very young children colonoscopies that even for adults is a rather risky procedure. but multiple children suffered from punctured and bruised intestines as a result of this procedure which, if it needs to be remembered, was ENTIRELY FRAUDULENT FROM THE START. Those children suffered from severe medical abuse, all so some scumsucking lawyer and a dirtbag doctor could try to steal taxpayer and investor money to their hearts' content. and unfortunately, Andrew Wakefield still landed with a golden parachute because he lives in a gigantic mansion as he peddles low-grade conspiracy theories related to vaccines, and speaks regularly at conspiracy conventions with such high-falutin topics like "bigfoot is real."

He also committed child abuse on several occasions in order to find proof of the disease he was trying to make up.

I was wondering why someone would intentionally fuck with the data. Absolutely vile man.

I had a Stem cell transplant and I actually didn't have to get my MMR again but my daughter had to wait on her 4 year old shots until my immune system recovered, I was very grateful for herd immunity for our family.

According to the food industry, you should feed your children. What a surprise.

@@danielschroedinger2090 according to the anti-food industry. Nothing, they all died about a week ago from starvation. What a surprise

F

Hell no, I don't have any. Feeding imaginary children outside of improv class might get me sectioned.

What a stupid comparison lol very child like

This is about vaccines, no doctor is wrong about vaccines.

Uh- Maybe you NEED that shot because you could be the ONE person in the entire country that gets the virus by being a dumbass I've had 6 vaccines in a day, most of my school had 6 vaccines in a day, the only person getting seizures has a condition and doctors should know how to handle that

TheBookWorm1718 hm... that's interesting. I wonder why nobody is getting that disease? really weird. oh right, it's because of the fucking VACCINES. use your head.

TheBookWorm1718 epilepsy is a neurological disorder that can be there from birth or from physical trauma to the brain (like after an accident) you dumb fuck

@TheBookWorm1718 Who is paying you, corporate shill of the devil? The power of non-fuckery compels you!

Same! Makes me laugh as much as the rant itself 😁

i like that kids logic

PREACH IT, BROTHER!

I'd noticed John's distinct lack of a "there's not actually anything wrong with being autistic" point, probably because, as I know from experience, going off on every possible tangent in a discussion tends to go badly. Hopefully that's just being saved for another video for another time because, as a fellow aspie, THERE AIN'T NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING AUTISTIC! Any time I see a vaccination debate bring up the subject, all I can think is "I hate to butt in on your discussion on whether or not Polio, Measles, and the Pox should come back but could you maybe cover the point that Autism's not actually that bad? You're kinda talking like I'm some kinda diseased freak!"

I blame Autism Speaks for worsening the situation. They _constantly_ portray Autism as being a "Worst-Case Scenario", where the kids are portrayed as being unable to function for themselves, _constantly_ screaming and making a scene for no reason, and needing horribly expensive treatments if they're to have anything resembling hope of becoming a functioning member of society. It's made parents paranoid as hell, even though in most cases, Autism just makes the kid socially awkward and needing a little help instead of an institution to function. That, and a little more effort on part of said parents, which nobody wants to put in these days, even for kids that turn out "normal" (even though nobody wants to be seen as normal, it seems like at times).

Damn, well to be fair I didn’t expect to live past 35 anyway so I guess that second point is true.

Dark humour is like food. Not everyone gets it!

Best comment EVER!!!! Love it!

Jokes about unvaccinated kids never got old, just like the kids.

@NSA I think that's the best one of the three anti-vaxx ones in this thread

Wow, that was an emotional roller coaster and that's why vaccines need to be required across the board unless someone has a valid medical reason.

Won’t the motorcycle brand have to change name

I know oh my god. I'm trying to be empathetic, understanding and kind.m...But as ICUs in Quebec are overflowing and patients have to be denied non-urgent care because there's just too much work, I just want to tell the anti-vaxx to go f*ck themselves. And if they get really, really sick from covid, they should stay home and die at home if they don't trust science and doctors. Ughhhhhh. But this isn't the solution.

Still laughing two minutes later. I might need to borrow this joke pls.

Peter McSweeney yes you will be punished greatly if you say this joke without permission and he will know because he is omnipotent

Underrated comment.

oh damn

This comment is Gold

Kurtis Maynard +

you should see what he said about birds.

+

Kurtis Maynard as he should #makeameticabreathagain

#FishLivesMatter

Oh my gosh ☠

Same here.

MotherEric As someone with autism, I can say I'm very happy to be alive. That should answer the question

deviater798 How do you feel when people blame your condition on a shot?

deviater798 No, because its not about the person with the condition. Its about the parent of this person who has to change his/her lifestyle because an autistic child (depending on the type and severity) can require a large amount of care

I am so frustrated because nobody refuted the worst thing about this whole debate: the idea that autism is more terrifying than polio and tuberculosis. Truly, it's like saying, "I'd rather my child be dead than autistic." And with all the fear mongering that Autism Speaks does, I largely blame them.

LogidodoPlyz and because fifty years ago we just threw them in a padded cell in a straight jacket. Not only that but people have kids at older ages now, which is literally proven to have a direct link with neurological disorders

Exactly, you were just the odd person 50 years ago. I recall the Tumblr post where it said that mothers 500 years ago who thought that faes stole their children in the night and replaced them with their own children were really just autistic, it's just we didn't know what autism was 😭 or you were just thought of as "well, Jeb's a little special and he don't like to talk much, but he gets his chores done so he's a good boy" basically 😭

My whole thing with the autism argument is would you rather have a kid with autism or a kid who's dead? There is a correct answer and if you get it wrong you don't deserve to be a parent

@@danasmall6104 I know someone who is Autistic and he is a really good person and loves things. He has trouble with some things, but he's at least alive and having a happy life.

I believe there was a myth in japan that mental disorders of all kinds were the results of being possessed by yokai or foxes.

I feel like he wanted an excuse to show off his adorable baby, and I'm all for it!

@@mushu_beardie2556 ikr!!! And i was amazed by how LITTLE that boy was! John's face looked huge in comparison

@@mushu_beardie2556Yeah my guess both.

Me too and now he has a little brother. Hope John and Kate remind them it’s important to be funny smart and compassionate.

Ryan Jacobs Bet you they're olive jars. He is John, the Oliver.

Ryan Jacobs - Well he has that adorable baby photo. Which at the very least proves he lives with a baby, surrounded by jars neither one of them can open.

Ryan Jacobs I saw a picture of him sitting around a whole bunch of unopened jars. That's proof enough for me.

Well 26:46 is kind of a proof, i guess?

so i scrolled down to check comments right as he said that line, and read your post while he said it. It was uncanny.

Far cry from today's profiteers, wish there were more like Dr. Jonas Salk to help us out of todays nightmares.

As much as I love that quote, it also inadvertently implies somebody made the sun lol.

Neat

@@CherryBomb_Games umm, god! Duh!

It actually wasn’t just him he just took credit

Creative Life I have Aplastic Anemia which is the same as Leukemia but just without cancer, I'm 15 and it's really stressful hoping that everyone is vaccinated since chemo wiped out my vaccinations and I still have to get new ones

Real question.... where im from your kid cant go to school without vaccines, and STILL she will get sick from another kid at school, no way around it. So, why send your kid to school if its so risky

Creative Life vaccines are good. But why are you sending your child to school?

chad carlson lol. They get sick with the cold. Not measles and polio and other deadly diseases.

Alvaro Hernandez Sending my love and prayers to you. ❤️ Stay strong, safe and uplifted. It sucks but I know you can get through this. 😊 My son has pretty much finished his 2nd round of vaccines and has been cleared to get the flu shot.

I would be too if it looked like that. 😉

It is the British Way

Seek help.

... VERY SAD... Very ungrateful...

Yeah, looking back after H. Bomberguy’s recent video about this, I wish John had gone more in depth about Wakefield and his “study” and just how flawed and bad it really was.

Yeah its pretty frustrating to see the language here after watching the hbomberguy video. Wakefield didn't "distort data" and "act unethically." He completely fabricated data and almost killed children solely for his own financial interest.

to be fair to john.... he's gotta keep it to less than 30 min.

He didn't have nearly enough time to dive into the Wakefield/British antivax movement so he just covered the basics, which are: Wakefield is a dumb shithead and his medical license was taken due to that and he got a lot of people killed via misinformation.

​@@mortuos557Exactly. Also Oliver's team only has a week to research things, not years.

And Ryan Luther, you're a fool. I don't know of any antivaxxer who believes in a flat Earth. Antivaxxers FYI are actually ex-vaxxers who stopped having their children injected after one or more of them developed serious health issues. Antivaxxers tend to be more highly educated than the norm and also have higher incomes. They are mostly very well read and have looked at the true science once their child became autistic, developed encephalopathy or became paralized. Do you realize many doctors don't vaccinate their own kids?

@@snowbird6855 "Antivaxxers tend to be more highly educated than the norm..." Source? "...and also have higher incomes." Again, source? "They are mostly very well read and have looked at the true science..." They have spent time on google. These people literally funded a study to find a link between vaccines and autism, and it came up against them. "...once their child became autistic, developed encephalopathy or became paralized." Your failure to spell "paralyzed" tells me a lot. But I'll take this claim at face value and say this: CORRELATION =/= CAUSATION. First off: Autism. Autism SYMPTOMS show at around the time vaccines can first be injected, but there's so much against it. Not only have unvaccinated people "become" autistic, autism is a physical problem with the brain, and is something people are born with. And again, look at what happened, I straight up said it right before this. Okay, now for encephalopathy. You literally just took a word that means brain disease, damage or disorder. Causes of such things include: infections, trauma, metabolic problems, and the like. All entirely physical things that cannot happen through vaccinations. Why don't you google it, since the internet supersedes any actual medical knowledge? Finally: becoming paralyzed through vaccination. There is no proven link between getting vaccinated and Guillain-Barre syndrome (which I'm assuming is what you're referring to). Like I said with autism, symptoms simply show up at about the same time. "Do you realize many doctors don't vaccinate their own kids?" Like I've said before, source? Why am I even trying, you'll probably just say I'm wrong, or a government sheep, or attack something superficial, like my profile picture, because that's how hard your argument falls flat. By the way, the whole "flat earther and anti-vaxxer thing" was simply a joke. I, too, have never met someone who believes both of those, since that's a level of stupidity that would cause brain cell implosion, I was simply referring to both movements. Come at me.

@@ryanluther5785 You're being deceived by the Devil. John Oliver is exploiting your pride, your sloth and your fear for survival if you go against the authority figure (John Oliver) who is the alpha of the group. Hence the audience's synonymous laughter. You don't want to be laughed at because you're a coward who needs people to think you're one of them. Find the motive for the lie ($$$$) and you can find the liar. Follow the money.

@@snowbird6855 No, a large amount of anti-vaccination people have been fed false information about vaccines being harmful, when in the long run not getting them is harmful. You do realize that not vaccinating your kid, literally opens the door for diseases like Measles to come to them? Measles can result in your child being blind, or deaf. If its Autism you're worried about, let me be the most likely 100th person to tell you that vaccinations do not cause Autism. There is no science proving it, all the 'proof' you have is the fact that Autism develops around the age when children start getting vaccinated. One of the most common causes of Encephalopathy is heavy drinking.The other causes of it are infections, anoxia, metabolic problems, toxins, drugs, physiologic changes, trauma, and many others. I don't know about you, but I don't see 'vaccinations' on there. Paralysis is caused by damage to the nervous system as well as stroke, trauma with nerve injury, poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy, peripheral neuropathy, Parkinson's disease, ALS, botulism, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, and Guillain-Barré syndrome. I do not think many doctors don't vaccinate their children. The amount of doctors who REFUSE to work on children because they're unvaccinated is very high. They refuse to, because it could be harmful to them, other members of the staff, or other patients. Also, I'm just going to dispute the claim that 'Antivaxxers tend to be more highly educated than the norm' using the following corrections to your comment. - Tend to be more educated. 'more highly educated' makes no sense at all. -*Autistic -* Paralyzed -You're missing several commas, not even gonna correct all of those. FYI, the last time an article has been written about Encephalopathy supposedly being caused by/relate to vaccines, is 2011.

Christine Paolini T. AntiVaxxer

Absolutely. Like, let's say for the sake of argument that vaccines DO cause autism (they don't, but let's say they do)... if I ever have a kid, I would much rather they have autism than die from a preventable disease.

@@iantkach6640 I don't think just anybody could easily do the same reasoning, but I definitely support ditching this stigma just for the fact that autism is not a disease

@@iantkach6640 ok let me first say that as a man with a mild form of autism I appreciate the sentiment you and the lady who replied to you have said. Second I agree completely. What a lot of people tend to forget is autism isn’t something you can CATCH. It’s something you’re BORN with. But more than that as you’ve mentioned the stigma that comes with being autistic. There’s nothing wrong with autism

autism is an insanely broad term to begin with. At any rate, people with autism who are also very aware (like me) will have the stigma at any rate: Being different is what we humans don't like. That's the basis of all of these problems, like racism, sexism, etc. A instinctive need for conformity, to a certain extent (because bigger is often better). It is of all times - it forms a huge part of evolution. Birds etc. toss the weak out of their nest. Women only mate with the prettiest, strongest (or to are just taken by the most muscular...). Most of nature wouldn't allow autists to live. All my life I have felt like a weirdo. Highly intelligent, emotionally very different and unable to take in a lot at once. It's baffling to others. And I'm rarely able to connect. My point being, I couldn't care less about this so called stigmatization they seem to cause. They are nutters, living besides reality, but they should be allowed to do so... Otherwise you go towards fascism. Educate people. Don't feel offended by everything. For a lot of people, I'm too logical, I talk too much, I'm boring. So be it. That shouldn't be such a bother to people. The fact that I like blue, doesn't mean people who like red and hate blue are 'wrong'. Unless they attack me over it. But... this is basically why people have fought wars all throughout history. 'Stigmatized' by the fact that some people like red, while I like blue. So no, please don't talk about it. At least, not in a direct manner. Growing a spine will help a lot in life, it is made up out of small victories and huge defeats. Focus on the small victories. Not on trivial pursuits. People won't ever all get along, unless, like said, you force them. And as you can see, divided we fall. Education helps a lot... Also on autism. In most cases it isn't that bad, but I wouldn't want my child to be like me at all. My life has emotionally been very hard to deal with for me and I don't feel a lot of pleasure in life itself. I like simple things though (painting, drawing, sculpting - mostly creating something visually pleasing relaxes me. Nearly everything else in life sort of upsets me). But I can get very frustrated over seemingly small things - which I'm aware of (with, or without society). So the stigma is there at any rate. The things I do to myself, emotionally, are way harder than any stigma. Because my instinct too, wants me to be normal. But I am not - that is very apparent to me and it has been ever since I was very little: I don't act like the others. I'm 35 and very, very alone. Safe for one other autist I know - who is a lot like me. Still feels like we're alone together... Very long point short (I tend to do that...): it's not that weird people don't want that for their children... Just like being gay is ok, but can be very hard as well. I'd rather have a straight child than a gay child, though I'd love both equally. It's not about that... Because a lot of people want to be 'normal', like instinct prescribes. Children start mocking others around 5-8 years old, when they notice these differences in themselves and others. This is also why I've known since forever that I'm different - and no one could tell me why. This proces also builds character and it creates identity... It's not something you can destroy, or do without. I sort of hope you don't appreciate my comment, just to rub it in. That tells you something about me ;)

@@iantkach6640 this is also true, though. I've been vaccinated at any rate - in Febuary - cause I'm a health worker. I see many autists there (just not like me, like said, autism is a very wide term)... These people work to help others because they know how hard life can be and it makes them feel good, gives purpose. So no autism isn't all that bad... Still, I can imagine people would rather do without when given the choice ;)

You sound like me when I was younger. I started watching this show when I was 12. :) It's nice to see kids as interested in this kind of stuff as I was. It gives me hope for the future.

Finally someone whos brave enough to speek out!

Bread is the real danger - 99.99% of murderers in the western world had eaten bread in the month before they killed!

More like, “we need to remove seatbelts, cause in most crashes, the cars had seatbelts”

I just realized, all the people that died from cancer DRANK WATER!

@@LucasRodrigues-ye3qx Don't get me started on the biggest killer of all, Dihydrogen Monoxide!

Except, not even doctors are unbiased. Everyone has their biases and this extends to professionals like doctors. Add the usual financial chumminess with big pharma corporations, then you get a 100% compromised healthcare system with no real point to it other than to profit off medication advertising, and off their patients' suffering. Telling people who live in fascist countries like the U.S. to "Ask/listen to a doctor", is like telling a christian god isn't real. They've asked/listened to those doctors and those doctors might've told them the same things those unbiased online sources told them because whoever's paying the doctor in question might not be unbiased themselves. Healthcare in the United States has become about advertising solutions to problems--the solutions being something that these doctors have read about online or heard from the big pharma corps who pay them that may sometimes have a 50/50% chance of actual success than giving someone solutions off fact-based knowledge that they've received from years of either doing their own studies or, looking for other fact-based studies done by other physicians to make an educated decision.

And, this also brings up a great side point: *there's no such thing as an unbiased source anymore.*

@@DoctorWhoKage while doctors arent 100% unbiased source (nothing is) they are the best we have, but if you doubt what your doc says you can always consider consultomg another ,medical professional

@@DoctorWhoKage still doesn't change anything. Parents should listen to the pediatrician. If you feel the doctor is lying, change pediatrician... and vaccines are not the same as the experimental treatments for something that might have a 50% chance of being cured. Vaccines work.

Dr. Kira oh stop it. From the moment you are born as something you ARE biased because none of us are omnipotent and omniscient gods whose point of view is unlimited and infinite. Doctors have studied medicine for decade. You’re telling me you wouldn’t go to the emergency room because the doctor might be biased? I’ve heard a lot of stupid arguments but this « doctors are biased » is literally the worst, because it’s so effortless. Trust centuries of scientific research that led to our current modern knowledge rather than your intuition, no matter how great you think it might be.

Disappointed Turtle The educational system.

Rafael Lopes Most likely

Rafael Lopes or the south.

Something is not like the others... why putting NASA with the other ones? I thought NASA was good thing, wasn't it?

As much as I want to blame the school systems, it is hard to do that because it's really the parents who harass the schools and the schools have to bend to their will. I wish I knew what to do to fix this.

The creators of rick and Morty certainly didn't.

Sooo funny.. Our body is the most sophisticated nuro energetic machine known - it makes the alapathetic chemical industry look like cave dwellers..

The human body is a gift from God and beyond an human brain..

@@reflectiononthesea9153 um nah, but if you want to think that go for it. I don't mind if your children suffer from your actions. thats on you, my dear.

@@biggrocc19 Look - I don't want to see any more damaged children..You must have some idea of the statistics..

Some people just don't want to be educated is the problem. Whenever I point out stuff like this all I get is "your brainwashed" or I'm a "shill for big pharma". Still waiting for my paycheck from them btw. 😂😂 people as a whole are stupid, selfish, ignorant, and arrogant creatures and will often put their own needs above all others. Problem is when it comes to vaccines they actually put the health of others around them at jeopardy too.

I feel like some countries that have under funded healthcare care sectors would also have this happening too(I studied political science and Finance in college)😂

you are not allowed to criticize the experimental chemicals. you must inject.

@@Night.League you are not allowed to criticize the experimental seat belts. you must click.

@@jasryl661 while I can understand the worry here, keep in mind that chance of death by vaccine is still just a speck when compared to the chance of death by the diseases they were created for, like measles and polio, among others. The reason you might be seeing more reports of death by vaccines than by those diseases is because the vast majority of parents are vaccinating their kids, and it's working. Because the rate of those disease dropped, there is also a much lower rate of death by those diseases. Thus, there is a much lower rate of death by diseases and far fewer reported incidents. When put into context, vaccines save more lives than they take. Quick Edit: I remember watching a video from a source that I trust that explains this much better than I do, and more. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/snKcinmnmYSfzIk.html

@R41Ryan Here’s the thing about Measles. There is nothing to back up the CDC’s scary statistic that a child, infected with Measles, has a 1 in 1,000 risk of dying. Not in any of the developed countries with proper sanitation. We haven’t had any year with no Measles outbreak. They don’t always get the media recognition of the Disney outbreak. But, how many deaths are we seeing? Certainly not 1 in 1,000. It’s concerning to me that society is so willing to accept deaths from vaccines for what they perceive to be the greater good. Yet, they criticize people for demanding safer vaccines. Why? Did you know that Japan uses an MMR that doesn’t contain aborted fetal cells? Or, that other first world countries have a much less demanding vaccine schedule than the U.S.? For example, the U.S. is the only developed country that mandates a Hep B at birth. The Measles used to be laughed at on shows like the Flintstones and the Brady Bunch back before the media was owned by Pharma giants. Also, we have had Measles and Mumps outbreaks among vaccinated individuals. The effects wear off. This is why the CDC is now recommending another MMR booster for adults.

​@@jasryl661 As I have said in my last post, the reason that we do not have a measles outbreak in any of the developed countries is because those countries have been vaccinating and successfully preventing people from getting infected. As a result, the cases for measles becomes less and less common, and so is the death rate from them. (although sanitation does contribute it as well, it doesn't prevent it alone since, for example, measles is airborne) This is also the reason why we see more reports of deaths from a vaccines, and comparing that with reports from measles can make it seem like it's more common, and thus, more dangerous. Though, I could not find the CDC's claim for that 1-in-1000 risk. Now, I do not live in the US so I do not know the experience of going through their vaccine scheduling. Here in Canada though, I remember growing up that I had to take up to 2-3 vaccines at a time every 2-3 years. In addition, vaccines for the most deadly diseases (like measles) are publicly funded. This is neither a rebuttal nor an affirmation, but just a foreign perspective. Also, keep in mind on how a vaccine physically works. It takes advantage of the human body's immune system and how it can "remember" diseases it encounters through memory T-cells. The vaccine would contain either a dead or weakened version of the disease so that the immune system can identify the antigens, thereby making it react faster to the real disease when it encounters them before they do any real damage. As a final note, I acknowledge that I am not an authority on this topic. Although, at the same time, neither are you. I won't post anymore beyond this because frankly, this is the internet; there is no way either of us are going to change our minds here. Though, I will say that if you truly are skeptical of the status quo and want the truth, don't just look for trusted sources, but from many, diverse sources. If they all agree to the same thing, then you know that it's a universal truth.

Double standards hooo!

Rohit G when people say the things like evolution or climate change are "opinions" when both are extensivly documented and proven. Evolution is proven using bacteria and can be seen in modern humans, and climate change has always been around as our world is always chaging, we are just making it change faster.

I think the world would be more logical if more scientists were involved in politics...

Scientists can't beat politicians because they rely on truth...

Rohit G Or how politicians preface their remarks about a scientific issue with the words, "Now I'm not a scientist, but...", followed by introducing some misguided and misinformed mumble of non facts as if they were scientifically valid. By the time they have spoken their piece it becomes clear that the , "I'm not a scientist" bit was not an statement of humility or self depreciation, but more of a warning that they have no respect for real science.

Spyderred wow, I’m incredibly sorry for you. It’s crazy to think that a disease that did this to tens of thousands of kids a year was eradicated with some science juice in a needle. Again I’m sorry this happened to you

TheGameLab /gaming there wasn’t any vaccine then. It came two years later. I only mention it because there are people who seize on a discredited paper by a man who manipulated the results to not vaccinate their children against polio, measles and the rest. I want what I experienced to end with my generation and never cripple anyone again.

Spyderred I know there wasent a vaccine, I’m just saying it was crazy how quickly polio went from being a major problem to something we think about less then McDonald’s

My grandparents met working at a hospital for kids who had polio. I will get every vaccine I can. Except I almost died from the flu shot, went into full anaphylaxis and it is by grace I didn’t die, as 20 year old at a campus flu shot clinic. 4 allergy doctors have tried to analyze it, and are too concerned about how rapidly I react to test different things I might be allergic to. I still will get OTHER vaccines for exactly the reason you point out. I am so sorry at the heavy toll polio took on your family, and so grateful you spoke up on this. I am in self quarantine until there is a reliable COVD 19 vaccine. Even then, I have to get it at an allergy clinic or somewhere that is near a hospital. If I could have prevented chicken pox, I would have. My kids are my fur babies, and they get inoculated on everything. Though when they hit 7 I start asking for titers...story for another day. Polio, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, all completely preventable, IF people vaccinate their kids. I had to trust that we have disinfected things enough, pre COVID 19. Now it is this too shall pass.

Lara Snider yeah, the flu shot is a tricky one. The thing with the flu is there’s so many strains so they kinda have to guess what shot to give you.

more like: "i can science better than scientists, these unnatural chemicals sound scary! better not vaccinate."

many american movements can be summed up as 'you are not the boss of me! this other person who is saying things I like is!'

"I've got WebMD! I don't need no doctors with their fancy medicine degrees, I can cure myself!"

IT'S SAYING THAT BILL GATES AND THE PHARM COMPANIES DO NOT HAVE OUR BEST INTEREST AT HEART. AND IF THE DOCTORS STEP OUT OF LINE AND POINT OUT THE DANGERS OF VACCINES, THEY PULL THEIR CARD. STRAP UP FOR THE CULLING, THE VACCINATORS WANT US ALL DEAD

Feel the power of capslock!

As a fellow medical student, I support this statement. I’d also like to criticize some design decisions, looking at you the knee, the lumbar spine, and external testicles.

@Ian Magruder absolutely XD

Soon I shall understand that to

@@UnsolicitedContext as a non-medical student who knows enough about anatomy, knees, lumbar part of the spine and testicles are fucking WACK. Who designed this shit? I need to have a discussion with them.

@@UnsolicitedContext Don't forget the vagus nerves/recurrent laryngeal nerves... Oh yeah, and our inside out eyeballs!

Me too, I get superexcited about this every week still :D Plus, it's kind of nice to have something to be excited about Mondays too, given that Mondays are... well, Mondays.

Jennifer Hernandez who knew he had a son, I'd almost cried

what, they don't post the hole show!?!?!?!?!?! my childhood is rund

Me too. I get HBO but like watching these on UKposts Monday morning before I start my work week.

Jennifer Hernandez You call this bs educating????? lol

Dude. I am so sorry for those idiots. That is legitimately horrible. I don't even know what to say. Just keep in mind that you these people have no idea

Same, It's really saddening when peole think their kid is better off dead than have autism.

They're just willfully ignorant. They don't even research what autism actually is because to them it's the same as Downs Syndrome.

Luke Williams When they aren’t even close, or connected. ASD + ADHD isn’t that uncommon a combination, but the two are still separate, even if the combo is more frequent than would be expected.

I'm not on the spectrum but I've had many friends over the years who were... funny thing about that? They all hate this bs.

medical vertues of water melon

You're probably a dumb fish.

This was fucking hilarious. You should have more upvotes.

it is school of fish not group

Got ours back in mid-March. Had a sore arm for a short period of time and that was it. Most of the people we know are vaccinated. The worst ended up feeling pretty under the weather for 24-48 hours; the least impact was a sore arm for a day or two.

Weird how people who never took the covid jab never got covid.... Weird how people who took all 99 jabs, had covid countless times... Indeed, too many idiots thinking a pharmaceutical company has YOUR interests at heart.

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I think the re's cancel out, so now they're just levant.

You remember the one about Nuclear waste? Do you remember that during the research part for that show they coincidentally discovered a news report from 1977 that was brought up pretty much exactly the same points they did? The reason why so many Last week tonight shows from years ago become relevant later again is simply because the US government is used to only act in an emergency and only if and as long as the public is pressing the issue. And even then the two party system and the flatour ridiculous freedom ideal in the US pretty much locks the entire political system of the US into a standstill.

Because the right wingers are still alive and still dumb as fuck

Pablo Came here to say that lol

@@JuICyBLiinGeR and you can't blame them one bit 😂😂

SmittenKitten you been keeping up that hot streak?

Oh no... no response in 3 months... RIP SmittenKitten

David - This is Smitten Kitten's mother (yes, her real name was Smitten Kitten because it rhymed and I was given lots of drugs during her birth, so it sounded good at the time), and although she's now texting with the angels, at least she didn't have autism. Yes, I'm aware there's no "scientific" link between vaccines and autism, but the stigma alone is enough to not vaccinate a child! I'd rather my child be happily dead in the ground than make myself even a little uncomfortable about a non-link between these two things. She's SO LIT in Heaven now. I delightfully accept your condolences.

@@SmittenKitten. #blessed

It's illuminated, family.

Agreed. If people knew the horrors of polio, diphtheria or smallpox, they would not be so easily swayed by the anti-vaccination rhetoric. A lot of this comes from these parents growing up in a affluent, healthy society. Since they never actually experienced these things, they do not understand the seriousness. Finally, I would like to add that yes, you can do whatever you want with your child. But do not put my child in danger because of your 'freedom of choice'.

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My mother had scarlet fever as a toddler. They didn't have money for vaccinations during the Depression. Later in life she got shingles (unrelated to SF) but I never want to go through the pain and social ostracism she experienced. Also, an older guy in our church had polio. To think he would never have had to suffer like he did were he able to have had a vaccination would make it be an obvious choice for me.

I know someone who contracted polio about 2 weeks after his mom bought a polio insurance policy from a door to door salesman. He was fortunate to have survived and is still alive (62 years old) with no future problems. People don't have a clue what some of these diseases are capable of........they are so totally stupid...

My impression is that the recent furor over vaccinations was started when Michelle Bachmann said in an interview that a woman had approached her and said that a vaccination had given her child autism. When queried, she claimed that it had all been proven in the press. The journalistic source of the notion was traced to a small newspaper in India.

Except oxygen isn't flammable

Oxygen is totally flammable. You probably don't notice it because air is mostly nitrogen and other non-flammable gasses, but pure oxygen is INCREDIBLY flammable. Liquid oxygen is literally rocket fuel. I'm not exaggerating with literally, either. Liquid oxygen fuel is actually what they use to launch rockets.

Andrew Kolberg So true. Other examples are that one shouldn't smoke around people with oxygen tanks and people can't fly without restrictions with said oxygen tanks.

Certain groups of people don’t know how chemistry works.

And the other two thirds is quite explosive as well if i remember chemistry correctly.

Not just science. It's the first rule of any statistics class

*what every high school math student learns in their first year. And this is in AMERICA. Adult anti-vaxxers who lack the intelligence of teenagers frustrate me

Really? Cause I learned that in highschool and parts of middle school. Then again our school system isn't getting paid enough.... John, I think I found the root of the problem.

steff i learnt this in the 9th grade

They learn during their first month of uni, it not necessarily caused by the university.

@vishu singh It's incredibly impressive for a country with such a large territory and over 1 billion people.

It's not that mothers in industrialized countries have forgotten how good they have it. Not at all, that's completely wrong. It's that mothers who had children before vaccines saw most of their kids die, so those kids never grew up, never had families, and never existed to say "Yeah no I wouldn't be dead if I'd been vaccinated they're super awesome". In other words, *dead people can't forget OR remember things.* Because they're dead.

@vishu singh But Afghanistan and Pakistan aren't because the Taliban tells people that the US distributed vaccines are secretly sterilization drugs.

Vaccines save lives. We are horribly overpopulated. Seems like an easy solution.

Except that most mothers (like me) do in fact vaccinate so making blanket statements about how stupid mothers are is unhelpful. I know exactly how good we have it, am fully vaccinated myself and have no concerns about vaccinating my baby. Unfortunately a very small number of people is all it takes to damage heard immunity.

Oh - you contracted polio? This is tragic, but to you´re surely only one in a million. Sorry you had to take one for the team. It is so rare, don´t even know why it would happen to you. Certainly only a coincidence. Did you even have that proven? I mean, just because it is your anecdotal experience doesn´t mean it really was the case. Maybe it was something else and your problem is only in your head. Or your parents just needed attention... Sorry to sound cynical, and it was certainly not fair to you. I apologize for "abusing" your story to demonstrate my point. Just wanted to give a taste of what vaccine victims get to hear all.the.time. And it´s not fair to them either. Personal accounts and first-hand-experiences are always valid and should be seen as what they are, especially if shared without a "missionary" objective and stated politely, like yours. I wish you well.

He never said he was vaccinated...are you assuming he was vaccinated and still contracted polio?

As well meaning as your speech was, it was kind of wasted on his story. Polio vaccinations started in 1955 and he contracted it in 1953.

I understand your reasoning, but---People in 1953 were afraid of going to swimming pools, etc. Polio is a virus, so you don't know where you will contract it. The kid across the street had polio, a kid in my elementary school class had polio. My dad had polio. They wished they could have had a vaccine to prevent it, but, alas, it hadn't been invented yet. In 1955, people lined up around the block to get the vaccine. Somehow, getting polio before 1955 is NOT a wasted story. It made people aware of just how precious life was and how easily it could be difficult if you got polio. Nowadays, people think polio is just an anecdote.

I'm so sorry for what happened to you *hugs*

Or ability to discern credible information from hoax science as we saw during pandemic(I was in college then)

ironically its the vaxxers who actually rely on memes to push their products. then they accuse antivaxxers of what they do themselves. Same with the bots story. it is actually vaxxers who have a huge army of bots and trolls all over the web.

VERBALMILITIA Columbus didn’t even set foot on the American mainland

VERBALMILITIA dude.... you ok? You posted unintelligible nonsense on like every top comment here.. you clearly need help..

VERBALMILITIA but... that’s literally what history says. People died in their 40s/50s all the time because of terrible medical care, and now most countries have a life expectancy of 70-80. Childhood disease rates have DRAMATICALLY fallen, due to vaccines for measles and polio. Go look at any CDC report on vaccine effectiveness. Actually go take a basic biology class again, sounds like you need a refresher 😉

@VERBALMILITIA Stop wasting peoples time with your overly biased viewpoint

sammme

Loads of misinformation arises from this including on medical topics and absolutely

WINNER

What's about Hunter investment in US bio labs in Ukraine? Nobody talk about it?