Twitter Wants Donald Trump to Know #VaccinesWork

Trump came out against vaccines during last night's GOP debate

| Published Sep 17, 2015 10:34 PM EDT

Health

girl getting rubella and measles vaccine in Paraguay — Pan American Health Organization

During last night’s GOPDebate, frontrunner Donald Trump was asked about his opinion regarding vaccines causing autism. Despite the fact that it’s proven vaccines work and don’t cause autism, Trump said the following:

Twitter users around the globe are none too pleased with Mr. Trump for spreading this fallacy and let the world know by tagging tweets with #VaccinesWork and sharing the science behind them.

The 1,256,407 children in this autism meta-analysis proved that vaccines do not cause autism http://t.co/UbHNs2HqTL #GOPDebate #vaccineswork
— Andrew Hires (@AndrewHires) September 17, 2015

#SouthSudan we have vaccinated a quarter of a million children against measles in 2015 #vaccineswork pic.twitter.com/L3CGFk5qQR
— UNICEF South Sudan (@unicefssudan) September 17, 2015

Trump didn't know the science on vaccines at last night's debate. Neither did the two doctors running. Here it is: http://t.co/9tsFw7TlN7
— The Upshot (@UpshotNYT) September 17, 2015

After the #CNNDebate, 5 myths surrounding vaccines — and the reality: http://t.co/8qq4vWyssR #GOPDebate pic.twitter.com/XkPUpaxL2K
— CNN (@CNN) September 17, 2015

Trump has yet to respond to the grassroots online campaign.

We here at Popular Science have said it before and will say it again: vaccines do not cause autism, and are often the best method for stopping the spread of preventable deadly and debilitating diseases.

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