Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response
Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2021–2025.
hbomberguy's long video dissects the anti-vaccine movement, analyzing Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent MMR-autism study, the media's role and Wakefield's loss of his license. It combines detailed research with humor.
What HN commenters said
7 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
faeriechanglingDec 2023Strongly recommends
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 me having much time to research this topic in that time, his 2 hour documentary released two years ago blew everything I had ever seen anybody say on the subject out of the water. ▶ this video
in “Hbomberguy didn't want to make that 4-hour plagiarism video” · View on HN
precommunicatorNov 2025Recommends
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]: ▶ this video
in “RFK Jr.'s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism” · View on HN
marticodeJul 2021Recommends
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 ▶ this video
in “Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?” · View on HN
thicknavyrainSep 2023Cites it
The early research in support of this conclusion (despite the fact no subsequent research has born it out) was pure charlatanism, bad science and the theory is rightly derided because those who continue to propagate it do so out of naked self interest and financial gain: ▶ this video
in “Common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children” · View on HN
pasFeb 2022Cites it
He conducted research for money. This involved ~7 children spending 1 week in a hospital. The children were young (mean age 6) and some had severe autism, so they had to be sedated, held down by adults, etc. His "informed consent" form does not describe the risks. ▶ this video (Where was the IRB during all this? Good question.)
in “Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties” · View on HN
scotty79Aug 2021Cites it
They had Wakefield creating antivaxxers and then they had a journalist that got to the bottom of his BS. This expose was highly publicised so people got through into their heads that antivaxx is BS. Wakefield then ran away to US and Brits lived happily ever after ... till Brexit. At least that's what's postulated here ▶ this video
in “94% of English adults have Covid antibodies, ONS data shows” · View on HN
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bdsaJun 2021Cites it
I have seen the argument made that one of the reasons for high vaccine confidence in the UK is as a result of Andrew Wakefield's MMR fraud, which was perhaps debunked more effectively in the UK than the US. ▶ this video
in “Fastly Outage” · View on HN