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You're Wrong About

The Anti-Vaccine Movement

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Eric Michael Garcia tells Mike and Sarah about the deep roots of a pernicious modern myth. Digressions include Mary Tyler Moore, British place names and supermodel dating habits. Mike finally gets to talk about Swedish statistical methods.

Here's some of Eric's work on autism and here's his book!

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0:00.0

You know, people complain about what the internet has done to culture, but I do think the fact that people don't just sit around quoting Anchorman all day long is an improvement because that's what life was like in 2004.

0:12.0

Welcome to You Wrong About, where every so often we prove that we know a third person.

0:30.0

I am Michael Hobbs, I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post.

0:34.0

I'm Sarah Marshall, I'm working on a book about the Satanic Panic.

0:37.0

And if you want to support the show, we're on Patreon, Patreon.com slash You Wrong About, and many other places in the description.

0:43.0

And we have a special guest today.

0:46.0

Hi, how are you?

0:47.0

Hi, Eric, Michael Garcia is one of our favorite journalists.

0:50.0

He writes for everyone.

0:51.0

He's one of those people that just in his bio is like, Eric has written for and then they list like 51 publications that you've been reading.

0:57.0

And you're like, National J graphics in there, what?

1:00.0

And importantly for this episode, he also has a book coming out entitled We're Not Broken, Changing the Autism Conversation.

1:08.0

And he is here to talk about vaccines and autism.

1:12.0

Thank you very much for having me. I'm a big fan of the show, Michael and I DMs about politics, Sarah and I DM about pop culture.

1:21.0

And I'm a big fan on a Patreon supporter.

1:24.0

Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm that serious.

1:26.0

Getting them bonus episodes, yeah.

1:28.0

And I think of you as someone who I get to see in the like high school proxy that is Twitter.

1:34.0

It's like prom. It's just constant prom in there.

1:36.0

I don't think it's prom. I think it's just like a regular day and you're just like, I'm tired and I gotta do fucking lacrosse.

1:42.0

And none of my actions seem to have consequences.

1:46.0

But we're here and we're making jokes about it.

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