Oct 16, 2026 · 1 hr 42 min · 10 segments
Use code professordave at https://incogni.com/professordave to get an exclusive 60% off! So I traveled to New York City for a live debate against prominent…
Steve KirschGuest
Pierre KoryGuestSo first of all, by a show of hands, how many of you in the audience think that there is a link between vaccines and autism?
This should give you an idea of the crowd we will be dealing with throughout this debate.
Okay, so it's- I cannot tell you how disheartening it is to hear so many people still falling for this vaccines-autism bullshit.
It started with Andrew Wakefield in the '90s and the retracted Lancet study, and it's been a plague on mankind ever since.
No matter how many studies are done, w- no matter how many hundreds of thousands or millions of children that are studied where n- absolutely zero correlation is found, anti-vaxxers continue to push this myth, which is absolutely insane and utterly unfounded.
Not only is there zero data to support this link, and a mountain of data disproving the link, it also just completely betrays any understanding of what autism even is.
You are born autistic, and then symptoms o- show up, and people say, "Oh my God, it's the vaccine," and it's just complete horseshit.
So first of all, by a show of hands, how many of you in the audience think that there is a link between vaccines and autism?
This should give you an idea of the crowd we will be dealing with throughout this debate.
Okay, so it's- I cannot tell you how disheartening it is to hear so many people still falling for this vaccines-autism bullshit.
It started with Andrew Wakefield in the '90s and the retracted Lancet study, and it's been a plague on mankind ever since.
No matter how many studies are done, w- no matter how many hundreds of thousands or millions of children that are studied where n- absolutely zero correlation is found, anti-vaxxers continue to push this myth, which is absolutely insane and utterly unfounded.
Not only is there zero data to support this link, and a mountain of data disproving the link, it also just completely betrays any understanding of what autism even is.
You are born autistic, and then symptoms o- show up, and people say, "Oh my God, it's the vaccine," and it's just complete horseshit.
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