'Vaccinate your damn baby'

A doctor has thrown shade on a mother, hesitating to vaccinate her child because of false claims she read in a book by anti-vaxxer Jenny McCarthy.

The medical professional shared a frustrating conversation with the women, after she told the doctor she didn’t want her son to get autism because of the vaccination.

The doctor then told the mother to "get over yourself".

McCarthy has become an advocate for children with autism after her son was diagnosed with the condition aged two. She's drawn controversy by promoting the idea that vaccines may be linked to autism.

Despite doctors and the scientific community disproving such ideas vaccinations can cause autism, there is still a significant amount of people who believe in the so-called link.

The scientific community has proven no link between vaccinations and autism. (iStock)

Taking to online forum Reddit, the doctor responded to a thread titled 'I can’t believe I need to have this conversation with an adult'.

When asking the woman why she was refusing medical advice the mother told the doctor, "I don't want my baby to get a vaccine because Jenny McCarthy's book says her son got Autism from the Thimerosal in his MMR vaccine."

The doctor's response was as follows:

"Jenny McCarthy is a one time playboy model who wants to sell you her books.

"MMR is a live vaccine and does not contain Thimerosal.

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"Thimerosal contains Ethylmercury which clears from your body in a ~10 days unlike methylmercury which stays for months and actually causes damage.

"Measles killed 135,000 people in the world LAST YEAR.

"Autism has a strong genetic component. If one identical twin has it, there is a 75% chance the other will as well.

The doctor was amazed at how ill-informed the woman was. (iStock)

"Andrew Wakefield [the former doctor who claimed there was a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, in 1998] faked the research linking autism to MMR vaccine, lost his license to practice medicine, and made millions helping lawyers sue and selling books. He lives in a mansion in England."

But the most brutal part of the doctor's takedown was this final sting in the tail: "I went to school for 11 years, spent 10,000 hours studying and just want to make sure your child stays healthy.

"Quit thinking your 5 minutes of internet research means anything, get over yourself, and vaccinate your damn baby."

To find out more about vaccinations and the misunderstanding regarding autism, click here.