--- title: Rob Schneider Ads Dumped by State Farm Over Vaccines Outburst description: State Farm dumps ad campaign after Deuce Bigalow's ignorant remarks about vaccinations canonical: https://time.com/3430107/rob-schneider-state-farm-vaccines/ author: Jeffrey Kluger article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-25T16:03:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:45:30.757Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Rob Schneider Please Shut Up og:description: Deuce Bigelow Weighs in on Vaccines og:url: https://time.com/3430107/rob-schneider-state-farm-vaccines/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt929f1426903f56eb/6986a564f983e73d5a04fdcb/hot_chick.jpg?branch=production&width=510&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 510 og:image:height: 287 og:image:alt: The doctor is in the house: by all means, take vaccine advice from this guy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rob Schneider Please Shut Up twitter:description: Deuce Bigelow Weighs in on Vaccines twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt929f1426903f56eb/6986a564f983e73d5a04fdcb/hot_chick.jpg?branch=production&width=510&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Dear Rob Schneider: Please Shut Up About Vaccines > Sponsored content. 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TIME's Science Cop Jeffrey Kulger takes on the misinformation coming from opponents of childhood vaccinations_  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Sep 25, 2014 4:03 PM UTC  The doctor is in the house: by all means, take vaccine advice from this guy The doctor is in the house: by all means, take vaccine advice from this guy  by [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/)  ## Jeffrey Kluger Editor at Large Sep 25, 2014 4:03 PM UTC If there’s one thing I regret about the job I’ve done raising my kids, it’s that when it was time to get them their vaccines, I did not heed the wisdom of a man who is currently filming a TV series with a storyline titled “The Penis Episode, Part 2.” And if that doesn’t convince you about this deep thinker’s credibility, consider that his earlier body of work includes such powerful pieces as _The Hot Chick_, _The Beverly Hillbillies_ movie and _Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo_. How’s _that_ for a guy worth listening to? Not. We are talking, of course, about Rob Schneider, the _Saturday Night Live_ alum who parlayed a single character—Richard Laymer, the obnoxious office guy—into a career of small-bore, dropped pants, toilet joke movies, plus the occasional cartoon voiceover. Nothing wrong with those kinds of projects; they’re honest work and the checks generally clear. But Schneider is at the center of a much-deserved storm this week, after State Farm Insurance announced it was pulling a new ad campaign featuring the comedian in a reprise of his office guy role, since—while the company whose job it is to help people live better, healthier, more fiscally secure lives wasn’t looking—its newly minted star has been popping off about (deep sigh here) the hidden dangers of vaccines. Take this observation from Dr. Bigalow, [in a widely circulated video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxYtPD3eIUw) shot when he was campaigning against a California law that would have made it harder for parents to refuse vaccines: “The efficacy of these shots have not been proven. And the toxicity of these things—we’re having more and more side effects. We’re having more and more autism.” Or this one: “You can’t make people do procedures that they don’t want. It can’t be the government saying that. It’s against the Nuremberg Laws.” It’s actually worth watching the entire jaw-dropping display, because Schneider somehow manages to thread the extraordinary needle of being wrong _on every single point_ he makes. Remember in high school when they used to say it was impossible to score a zero on the SATs because you get a few points just for writing your name? Schneider, presumably, would have left that part blank. And then there are the cringe-worthy Twitter posts suggesting he has been denied his freedom of speech: > [](https://twitter.com/RobSchneider/status/514656988966694912) For the record Rob, no, there is no government conspiracy to force vaccines on kids. No, doctors are not bought off by big pharma. No, vaccines are not filled with toxins. And no, this is not a free speech issue—it’s a public health, common-sense and, not for nothing, business issue, since State Farm, like any company, is free to sack a spokesperson who makes them look very, very bad. Simply quoting George Washington does not mean any of the great man’s wisdom rubs off on you. It just means you looked up a quote. But as long as we’re in the quote game, how about one of your own, from your video harangue: “The government,” you said, “can’t make decisions about what I do to my body.” On this score, you’re right. So please do continue making movies that allow you to appear on posters with a towel on your head, seaweed cream on your face and cucumbers on your nipples. Maybe George Washington would have been pleased with you. State Farm? Not so much these days. ## Transcript So, our recent report claimed that a 2004 study withheld a link between vaccines and autism in African American boys. No surprise, the anti- vaccine crowd considered this a big win. But again and always, they're wrong. Here's why. [ MUSIC ] First, the subjects excluded from the study had no birth certificates available. Meaning data on their mother's age, race and more could not be confirmed. And that information was vital for the work the investigators were doing, More important, the people criticizing the research make the familiar mistake of confusing associated with causation. While it's true that the study did find a slightly higher rate of autism among some kids vaccinated between 24 and 36 months of age, it's almost certain that those children were already autistic and were vaccinated later as part of a basic health requirement for attending special education program [ MUSIC ] programs. If you join the Army and get a mandatory crewcut before basic training, you don't then conclude that military service causes baldness. Finally, the narrator of a disgraceful web video spreading the rumors about the study is Andrew Wakefield. The British researcher whose fraudulent 1998 paper falsely linking vaccines to autism got the entire got the entire anti- vaccine mess started. Wakefield has had his license to practice medicine revoked in the UK. And is hardly in a position to be offering opinions on anything at all. So for the billionth time, vaccines are safe, effective and vitally important. Rumor mongering, on the other hand, can kill. 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