A lot of people believe that it was Mark Twain who said it.But while Mark Twain is often credited with saying it, he was not the first to say it.
It was an English minister by the name of Charles Spurgeon who first said it…using it in a sermon in 1855.
What Pastor Spurgeon said was this: “A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.”
Mark Twain took that saying and changed it slightly to this:“A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
A couple of different ways of saying the same thing about what has led to the worst outbreak of measles in 20 years.
Despite a 1998 study linking vaccinations to autism that was completely proven to be wrong, and was totally debunked and was even withdrawn in 2010 by those who did it, untruths about vaccinations have led to the measles outbreak.
The most respected people in the medical field and the most authoritative medical organizations say vaccinations are safe, and that the benefit in protecting children against sometimes deadly diseases far outweighs whatever tiny risk that may exist.
And that’s why the way to make the vaccination debate go away is not through laws and penalties, but through spreading the truth as far and wide as the lies have been spread all these years.
As Mark Twain and Charles Spurgeon probably would have put it...it is a lie that will only disappear when the truth finally catches up to it.
READ: FACTS ABOUT VACCINATIONS
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