Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters call it the definitive, thorough answer to whether vaccines cause autism and recommend it as an entertaining deep dive.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

hbomberguy

Topic

vaccine misinformation

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• hbomberguy rocks. His documentary on Andrew Wakefield has become my definitive answer to people who ask me if the MMR vaccine causes autism, a question I have been asked directly and indirectly for decades. Despite the fact I'd been asked this for decades, and despite …

• Wakefield got off easy. This video does a good (and humorous) job of reviewing everything that was wrong with him and his study and it's a dense... 1h40m [VIDEO]

• I highly recommend this deep dive, with some entertainment value: Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response [1]. It shows how absurd those claims are [1]: [VIDEO]