Amazon has come under fire lately for circularize anti - vaccine conspiracy theories . Until a few Clarence Shepard Day Jr. ago , it hosted several anti - vax documentaries on its video land site Amazon Prime Video , include such classic asShoot ' Em Up : The Truth About Vaccines , We Do n’t Vaccinate ! , andVaxxed : From Cover - Up to Catastrophe .
These documentaries , which have finally been transfer from the chopine , sit on Amazon Primepromoting such myths as ' vaccine cause autism’andfalsely linking ADHD , rheumatism , and Crab to vaccines .
The company also come under fervour from the chair of the House Intelligence Committee for recommending anti - vax books , include those by soundly discredited former physician Andrew Wakefield , who had his medical license lift after he wasfound to have falsified datain a study that incorrectly linked vaccines to autism .
Now it transpires that Amazon has been helping to fund anti - vax brotherly love through its charity arm Amazon Smile , according to a Guardian report .
Amazon Smileallows customers to donate 0.5 percentage of their leverage to a charity of their choice . So far , so good . unluckily , amongst the organizations that client can select are several anti - vaccination organizations and pressure groups , some of which actively advance the idea that vaccinum are unsafe to baby , and that vaccines cause autism . ( looter alert : Study after study has show they do not . )
Organizations that The Guardian found multitude could donate to on Amazon Smile include :
National Vaccine Information Center ( NVIC )
An organization thatsupports faux claimsthat there is evidence that vaccines have autism and encourages citizenry not to vaccinate , sometimes through the average ofquite offensive posters .
Michigan for Vaccine Choice
An organization that pushes for opt - out from vaccines in Michigan , which hosts scaremongering content such as the above on its website .
Learn the endangerment
This is an organisation thatpromoted the false informationthat a senator perish after getting a grippe shot ( he actually pass from complicatedness relating to acute promyelocytic cancer of the blood ) . When they are n’t doing this they can be found on Twitter linking vaccines to autism , despite , to restate , there being no link .
Age of Autism
As you’re able to suppose from the rubric , this is not a balanced facial expression at the science of vaccines . The " science " section of their website contains unscientific claims that autism is because of " excessive vaccinations " . On the right - hand side of this folderal , they expose a link titled " Support Autism Age . When you give away at smile.amazon.com , Amazon donates . "
Physicians for Informed Consent
A group that promotes , energize yourself , the idea that the MMR vaccinum is not safe than measles ( whichrecently shoot down 238 multitude in the Philippines , just FYI ) .
It ’s not known how much has been donate to these and several other pocket-size organizations through Amazon Smile . However , it ’s pretty alarming that Amazon is spend a penny it easy for citizens to fund organizations that are actively spread out vaccinum misinformation , just as preventable diseases such as rubeola are ( completely unnecessarily)on the emanation once more .
