State Farm Pulls Rob Schneider Ad over His Anti-Vaccine Views

State Farm has yanked its ads featuring actor Rob Schneider following social media outcry over his views that childhood vaccines are linked to autism.

Schneider’s reprisal of his Saturday Night Live character “the Copy Guy” for the insurance giant’s ad campaign didn’t sit well with many viewers, as The Wrap notes that several Facebook pages took immediate action to try and get the commercials removed.

“State Farm provides health insurance, and nothing ensures public health more than getting vaccinated,” a critic’s video posted to the company’s Facebook wall said. “It is time to end the anti-vaccination movement; with your help, we can elicit change.”

Schneider went into full-blown Jenny McCarthy mode several years ago when he told the press that childhood vaccines have “unproven” safety levels and are likely the cause of autism.

Despite that theory being widely discredited by the medical community, Schneider has continued to rail against vaccination programs in his state of California, at one point dropping a Nazi reference while railing against rules barring children from entering public schools without having been vaccinated.

Watch the ad below:

[h/t TMZ]

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