https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud in case anyone isn't familiar with the study you're talking about. Imagine being wrong so hard that you lose your license to practice medicine but keep up the act for decades afterward. Wakefield is such a piece of shit.

I love when people claim to not trust the science of vaccines. Vaccines created using the same scientific method that allowed the invention of the smart phones they're typing from. The same science that allows for all modern medicine, energy production, manuacturing, etc.

I think you’re missing that she is a pediatrician and not just a “doctor.” Pediatricians administer a big majority of vaccines and care for the patients receiving them. They probably do learn a hell of a lot more about them than, say, an oncologist who spends all their time treating cancer in old people. And they see the effects of them up close in the field. Any doctor is constantly researching and staying up to date. A pediatrician worth their salt is very well educated on all relevant studies even if they didn’t conduct those studies with their own two hands. I reject the notion that you need to conduct the studies to know the science: that’s a ludicrous bar for us to set.

In even more fairness, reading memes on Facebook makes you even less of an expert on vaccines.

Perhaps agree she's not an "expert" but she's certainly "educated"

Sure, but the person told her to educate herself which she responded to.

You can get into a research career as an MD too. It's not strictly clinical practice.

We're all encouraged to publish papers.

In all fairness downplaying medical school makes you ignorant

Med school is definitely not a trade school. The amount of material I learned per day in med school was about the same quantity as a week of college.

First of all, fuck you. Nowhere did anyone say she was an expert. Like let me just pick up this goal post and move it.

Second of all fuck you. You don't need to be an expert know the experts opinion.

Did I mention, fuck you?