I have it on the Today show because I'm waiting for something better to start at 9 a.m.
Bob Wright is on doing an interview with my favorite [sarcasm because he's terrible] host Matt Lauer. Apparently, in addition to being the co-founder of Autism Speaks, he is ALSO the CEO of NBC. Which would make him a very powerful man in terms of what information he chooses to spread.
Anyway so they only talked about three things:
1- Matt saying how fantastic Wright is and how great A$ is, asking how he got involved
2- Matt asking if vaccines cause autism, because he said that has come up again
3-Wright's wife just got diagnosed with cancer
I was thunderstruck that Wright would not say that vaccines do NOT cause autism or that the original study that made that claim was fraudulent. That is common knowledge! Hello! Matt was like, so what do you say to people about vaccine safety? Wright went into this load of bologna about how people really need to decide on an individual basis if a vaccine is right for them because all people are different.
My kid is still too young for some vaccines, but he's gotten most of the big ones already. However, there was a time when he was a baby, that he was too young to get, say, the MMR one yet. So that meant that some jack*** who hadn't vaccinated their kid could infect my child with the measles.
And people take stupid media opinions seriously so Wright has a responsibility to be truthful.
I mean, what do you expect? But still.
Literally, the only helpful thing Wright said is that autism cannot be treated or cured. That should tell him something. Maybe that it's not a disease.
29 Mar 2016, 8:00 am
