Vaccines don’t prevent infection. Vaccines are meant to produce immunological memory and antibody production, so that when you get infected, your immune system can rapidly respond to eliminate the pathogen and prevent serious complications, including death. Vaccines don’t cause autism!
Repeat, repeat, repeat.
Next it will be vaccines cause dementia, mental illness, incontinence, and a propensity to vote Democrat. No wonder Trump and RFK Jr. want them gone.
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A Famous Psychologist, Dr. Allen Frances, says "Blame me" for the increase in Autism diagnoses. It's not a metal, it's not vaccines... Hear his story on YouTube: (if you're in a hurry, his confession starts at about 2:30 Min.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFHU...
Maybe by "autism" they actually mean "robust immune response"...
Quite possibly
would be cool if they did though
Their ignorance is bliss. . .
Louder for the idiots in the back 🫡🙋♀️
maybe a little subtle there, Pestilence.
An obviousism.
Yep
I know doctors who don’t understand this.
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Stop, you're scaring them with science and facts. 😱😱😱
OK OK. No more science and facts.😉
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I'm of the opinion though that watching a blend of FOX 'News' and Newsmax may lead to apparent dementia.
We must dissolve the fire brigade. I assumed they'd prevent 100% of all house fires, yet here they are, putting out existing fire after fire. What a disgrace.
Well said my good man👍
Vaccines save lives. I just got Covid. I’ve had 5 shots. I lived!! Thank you Dr.Fauci, and all the researchers and the companies that made the vaccines.
Yep. If I hadn't been tested, I wouldn't have known I had covid. Yet 2 if my antivax friends were so sick they were hospitalised and one is still too sick to work. Unrelenting misery for 3 months!
I’m guessing MAGA lost your train of thought at “immunological”. Way too many syllables.
Probably
But heroin causes permanent brain damage.
Who on earth thinks that? Such a lack of understanding.
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s we did not do vaccines, only homeopathy. At one point the great Dr Marion Belle Rood looked at mother with great focus & said, “If there’s ever a pandemic, Get Vaccinated.” Today I am vaxxed up. Maybe this will help someone out there who reads it.
Thanks for the repost @david414.bsky.social 💕
I know of some veterinarians who practice alternative medicine. I don't go to them but some friends do. Those vets give vaccines (singularly, not bundled) and prescribe homeopathics to counter potential vaccine side effects. I guess I'm not surprised even Rood would advise vaccines in a pandemic.
Those vets sound well balanced. Yes, Rood had seen the effects of polio. The older I get the less black and white things are. 💕
I grew up in the 60s - 70s I remember getting vaccinated at school.
Its MASA! Make AmeriKKKa Sick Again!!!!
All true
Preaching to the choir
Yes. But still rooting out some trolls, anti-vaxxxers and generally horrible accounts.
And if it did, it's alarming to prefere a dead child than an autistic one.
BINGO!!!
Their ignorance is bliss. . .
Who you gonna believe? Our best scientists and doctors or a bunch of internet idiots?
I am a big fan of vaccines. Weird to say that but in these weird polarised times there seems to be no grey area. Vaccines help contain infection,transmission and mutation by reducing the community viral load.
Very interesting diagram.
Follow @mackayim.bsky.social for more like that.
Thanks
Probably need a vaccine-specific one these days. Will have a play with that this morning.
It amazes me that we have so many types of preventative medicine, but what people want is to get a pill after they get sick.
This.
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Vaccines don't work; in the past year I got small pox once and polio 3 times !! In 2024 I got chicken pox and I voted for Don Trump, the most honest President in history.
The dripping sarcasm was lost on many.
Nuh uh! Chemtrails cause autism and wokeness! Vaccines are actually used to make us subservient to reptilian aliens who control the media.
FDR, who was elected president four times, would've given them all up to walk again. JFK also spent his childhood in hospital beds and would be sickened by RFK. Even the Soviet union worked with the US to battle deadly diseases. They're killing Mennonite children for laughs and laziness.
Thankyou
One of the most amazing stories of modern history was the relentless push of the UN and WHO to eradicate small pox from existence in the World. A true miracle I believe RFK would advocate to re-introducing it back into the world
Holy shit, someone who actually knows what vaccines do! You’re far too dangerous…
Astounding that at this late date so many (including crackpot HHS Secretaries) do not know what vaccines are for or how they work.
Just had dinner with one the other night with a group of ladies. She still insists that COVID was a hoax. These people are beyond help.
And it’s surprising the mental gymnastics these people will put themselves through to try and convince anyone who will listen.
great cartoon
I hope RFK, Jr. is reading this.
Monsanto causes autism
My sons are in the spectrum and they did not get it from vaccines. They got it from their maternal grandmother
Vaccines create soldiers of antibodies that eat the evil incoming pathogens. They are selective. On the 9th day, God created vaccines and he smiled down because all was good…
I don't understand that, in 2025, people need to be explained how and why vaccine works.
I would guess it is because a simple foundation in biology/immunology was never taught or retained by them. Most people have no clue about the cells in their immune system or how they work together to protect them from infections. They don’t need to know the nitty gritty details.
And this is sad, because I learned this in elementary school back in the 1960s.
Certainly not the same elementary school that RFK Junior.
I recomend to take a course to these people. But if we start somewhere I would recommend to make Citizenship course that cover modern history, political spectrum and and the big lines of actual geopolitics to obtain the right to vote.. That would help a lot.
Is it micro plastics ? Cell phone usage near pregnant women ? Poison sprayed on fields ?
Then wouldn't all children be born autistic?
It's inadequate synaptic pruning during the second trimester of pregnancy. That's why it's existed long before any of those things.
Yeah I used a Geiger counter and proved that you'd need 5000 cell/mobile phones strapped to a person to ring at the same time to give them any form of radiation that would be bad. Fuck off conspiracy theorists.
Only complete and total idiots believe vaccines “cause” autism…gheese! 🤦🏼♀️
Unfortunately, we have quite a bit of idiots here in the USA that believe vaccines cause autism.
💯 Once the oligarchies responsible for poisoning the soil, water and air are held accountable, therein lies the answers to the cause of many afflictions.
Tell RFK
TY I am proudly Autistic not an injury!
RFK Jr's motto should be "Make All Americans Sick Again". And thank you for your consideration.
Vaccines kind of DO cause autism, though: they stop kids dying of preventable diseases, so they can grow up and maybe get diagnosed autistic on the way. Dead kids are never autistic! But by the same principle, vaccines also cause EVERY human condition, so it's probably not a useful point. Oh well.
Too many big words for anti-vaxers. Also science. They don't like science.
Indeed. And if one cares to examine the mRNA technology, it is actually not only effective and efficient, it is elegant.
And safer, and loaded with potential to prevent or cure other diseases.
Science. This is the way!
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Sane people know this, but sadly the HHS secretary isn’t sane😐
Trying to explain immunology to Rethuglicans is like trying to teach calculus to a cabbage. Both are large vegetables that give you gas.
Follow. And the pfp of B&B mourning for Ozzy is a lovely touch
They disagree with its conclusions, they disagree with the methods. Whether it be racist phrenologist, classist handwriting experts, Greenpeace going after GMOs or alternative medicine people claiming their stuff works, people have historically proven to put opinions before science.
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We need a vaccine against dis/misinformation. Thinking more about this, we have one now. It's called robust education and knowledge.
Bingo
One retracted study from a man who fabricated the data, and this idea of vaccines causing autism refuses to die. People believe what they want to believe.
Unfortunately, the deflector shield analogy is still being used, even in vaccine promos and commercials. I saw one during the 2020 covid surge showing the vaccine putting a pink bubble around people. So frustrating 😡
Remember when these folks said differently way back in 2009? They were wrong then and wrong now.
A MAGA guy on my Reddit feed said vaccines negatively affect your credit score, this is the real world now everybody
Just wow!! 🤦♂️
Idk man, I've seen a lot of articles and memes on Facebook that say they do. And, you know ... Jenny McCarthy. Where are you getting YOUR facts?
They're right. My attempts at super-autism were foiled. /s
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Vaccination saves lives.
Sounds like you went through Medical Laboratory Technician college as I. You are 100% correct! 👍
Too bad there isn’t a vaccine to fix STUPID 😳
Yeah, I know. But millions apparently cannot grasp the concept of inoculation for building immunity.
Thanks for the anti-pestilence dialogue, Mr. Pestilence
VACCINES CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE AND THE LIFE OF YOUR CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN.
Vaccines are bicycle practice for your own defences. Do not skip practice.
What's funny is most people that make that claim are fine with opioid use when prenatal opioid use carries a ton of clinically studied evidence that suggest that DOES cause autism I believe 1 county in Florida accounts for like 90%+ of the opioid prescriptions issued in the USA annually
You used some big words there. Magats don't understand those. You would probably lose them somewhere around "immunological".
In 1950 the average life expectancy worldwide was around 44 years and the majority of deaths occurred before the age of 5. With the advent of vaccines the average life expectancy is now 72 years. Oh the time before the 50’s was full of natural and organic products
I don't know if people without a subscription can read the odd NYT article, but: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I had read this article. Crazy. Let’s not ‘test’ a hypothesis but let’s instead generate data that ‘proves’ our hypothesis. This is not how science works. Even if science in America is compromised by charlatans and idiots, I hope science in other countries will be trustworthy.
RFK and DJT cause autism in late stage adulthood.
RFK Jr is pushing wearables now because he has a vested interest in a company that supplies them and stands to make millions. He’s another tRumpy trying to profit off the American people. Go figure. Who would’ve guessed? 🤔
Can't get people food, housing, or medical care, but let's buy everyone wearable glucose monitors even if their blood sugar is stable! Maybe we can get Trump to gild them, too.
Almost there! Some vaccines (MMR, polio, HPV, smallpox) prevent infection outright; others (flu, COVID) mainly prevent severe illness and death. All vaccines build immune memory so the body fights faster.
No vaccines prevent infection outright. Even after four doses of MMR, there are some people who don't develop titers against measles. This is why we need herd immunity.
No vaccine works in 100% of people. Even with four MMR doses, a small minority don’t develop immunity, which is why herd immunity is crucial. Still, vaccines like MMR can prevent infection in most people.
Whether infection is prevented has nothing to do with the vaccine itself and everything to do with the reproductive cycle of the virus. The adaptive immune system takes three days to fully respond. Measles has a 10+ day incubation. Covid's incubation can be less than two days.
It has more to do with the responsiveness of the exposed individual's immune system.
They have the same role as alerting the Police in advance that there's going to be a bank robbery. They can't do much until the robbery starts, but it allows them to respond faster.
Nice analogy.
Anyone who believes that vaccines change their DNA should see it as a chance.
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I am pretty sure I was just born with autism...even though I was not diagnosed until I was 32 I am 1000% sure I was not from vaccines and just oversight at the time as I was diagnosed with ADHD and "anger management issues" as a child...
I graduated from Facebook University. I have 200hrs of AlexJones listening. I’ve done my own research and I say you’re wrong.
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Scientific information causes the Republican brain to buckle like weak knees.
Most people with a general education know this. They understand what the Trump administration doing. This is exactly why Trump has shut down the department of education and is trying to destroy our universities. Educated people are incompatible with dictatorships!
💯 every authoritarian takeover in the recent past immediately targeted the academics.
They have never caused autism, but some crazy former drug addict with the scars on his face to prove what an addict he was, a loss of voice due to heroin addiction claims conspiratorial garbage about vaccines that have worked for decades. Again republicans and trump love to kill others kids.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
Vaccines do, however, cause dangerous hysteria and lies in RFK, Jr.
Sentient beings understand this.
Remarkable how one article, ONE, published 25 (?) years ago has done so much damage to public health.
It hit a sweet spot because the experience of forcing your kids to get vaccines feels creepy. It hurts, needles are scary, and it feels like a violation of one's body for no intuitive reason. I think we could do a better job a knowledging this to build trust back.
You can thank Linda McCarthy as well; the stupid bint used her celebrity status to help push it. Truly it was a team effort between Wakefield and clueless celebrities
Clueless celebs and pols are, apparently, now a feature.
*apropos of nothing, my Mom went to High School with Linda.
Right. It died off after tons of research was done. All of a sudden, they are pushing it hard again. We already went through this once.
And... The Lancet (?) retracted it with a full editorial on how wrong it was. Like the Egyptian Ivermectin study which had the same effect for C19.
Brain worms cause autism!
No they don’t, don’t conflate a harmful parasite with a natural variation in humans
Joking aside, there is some link between toxoplasmosis and autism :D
Apparently.
Anti-vaxxers lack critical thinking skills hence the reason they believe the misinformation of nincompoops on different social media platforms. It’s astounding that they choose to believe misinformation rather than research findings accrued over decades of testing. 🙄
Research papers are long and have too many big words for them.
Good point. I also think these folks have no idea how to find legitimate information on the internet.
They find something easy to read that agrees with their preconceived notions, and that's good enough. Perfect customers for crappy AI.
Another good point. I think that many of those folks just accept what they hear from others who share their views without verifying any of it at all. But for those who may do some reading, they’re no doubt very selective of what they read. 😊
Oh, the other thing is that when they find other scientifically illiterate people who agree with them, it might be the first time in their lives people are telling them how smart they are. It's self-reinforcing.
Yes, agreed. We all tend to congregate with those whose views align more with ours but being open to other perspectives is essential, something that anti-vaxxers aren’t.
It's why we need better science education and more science communicators who can make this stuff accessible.
So what, you expect people to believe facts?
Social Media cause idiocy in adults. RFK JR is clearly infected by social media and access to all the fking quacks.
High functioning Autists cause Vaccines.
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But becoming MAGA causes severe mental impairment … symptoms include disbelieving the science and the truth, embracing conspiracy theories, and worshipping a total shit! The prevention and cure are remarkably easy….
Greenpeace disbelieved science and the truth around GMOs and embraced many conspiracy theories around the subject. Trust me, the disease happened during birth and is called "emotional thinking". There is no cure, but symptoms can be reduced by careful doses of 'questioning your own beliefs'.
More kids alive, more autism, case closed.
Thank you. And larger populations.
Right on
The only thing that causes autism is normal breeding. Because autism isn’t a disease, it’s a natural human condition that we pretend is a problem because we purposely built a society around making anyone who isn’t a follower or a slave a “problem”
The only thing that doesn't cause autism is selective breeding. Don't fuck autistic people and you won't have autistic children. It's genetic. Besides which, Autistic celebrities: 71 famous people with autism (2023 edition) share.google/Aix5eZ6DCco2...
The only thing that doesn't cause autism is eugenics.
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Same with sociopath, psychopath, and extreme narcissism. They are all hereditary.
Some are taught. I think my son got Asperger's genetically. Didn't see see him much after he was 3. His mother did that. Kept him away from me.
My son is almost 30. I've had many years to think about this. I was around for the original anti vex movement. It died off and then sprung back. I can see it now in my ex and my family lineage. It's hard to see in older gens. The amount of severe has increased.
When you understand the quirks it's easier to see. It's also easier to see they lump other disorders like sociopath in with autism. They won't even give a sociopath diagnosis in most cases. Same thing there. It's hereditary.people need to stop breeding if they have either disorders in their genepool
People can't stop breeding. That's like asking pigeons, rats, or seagulls to stop breeding.
Western civilization birthrates are way down, mainly in whites. Them being like this has actually turned against them. Young women are choosing to stay single because they don't want to give up their freedom. Many had hard childhoods because of this bull.
Maybe more DNA checks and comparisons and uh not going to happen. I agree with sociopath and autism. Musk.
Autism rates increase substantially when the male is over 40. We do invasive tests on older women due to increased rates of trisomy 21, why do we ignore the male input?
Yep.
To be fair, it is a disorder, and almost disorders (and even tons of diseases) are context dependent
What is the "order"?
This right here ^. Many things get labeled as “disorders” long before people even understand what they are. Also, many want things to be called disorders for insurance reasons and legal reasons; but again, that’s because of a broken system pretending anything not neurotypical is “wrong”
100%. Autism wasn’t such a “problem” until we industrialized and that’s not a commentary on food. It’s a commentary on shipping hundreds of kids to one school where they are expected to all act the same or be punished.
Maybe before we “indistrialized” we just didn’t know what autism was, or how to diagnose. Just like ADHD. Not necessarily new, just new to being diagnosed. Especially in girls.
Sadly, as an autistic, i can speak from experience.
“Act ‘right’ (Mask) or be punished”. I’m sorry if that was what you went through. Maybe autistics didn’t deal with overstimulation quite as much when schools were smaller and students still went home for lunch.
Thanks for your concern. I did end up going to a special school. But by then i was pre to late teens.
Between 1% and 3% of the world population is on the autistic spectrum. A rise in autism diagnoses is due to increased awareness, improved diagnostic tools, and changes in diagnostic criteria. Autism has always existed but was not always called autism. In the past, it was developmental retardation
Thanks for your post. The important part is that the diagnostic criteria changed. One of the DSM authors wrote an Op Ed piece in the NY Times stating that he was responsible for the increase in autism because of the change in criteria.
My sister was born in 1959 and was eventually diagnosed with a "lazy brain" and she was "backward" She has never had a modern diagnosis but she is definitely somewhere on the spectrum.
That’s the point. It’s not that autism, and its spectrum didn’t exist, the individuals were given other diagnoses due to the criteria being used at the time.
Exactly. The number hasn’t changed, just the society’s awareness/regard over time.
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So succinct! Thx for sharing✌🏾
But RFKJr is causing the deaths of children.
I used to feel bad for Cheryl Hines. She agrees with the swamp thing? I mean she agrees with lil Bobby? He's one of the stupidest tools in this cockamamy "cabinet" that more resembles a JUNK DRAWER! How can people not see this as a disaster?
Or a liquor cabinet...
DAMN STRAIGHT ON BOTH !!!!! Well said👏👍 Thank you🤗
I saw a correlation to age of the mother and father at conception and autism. There was a reason we don’t pop out babies in our 40s and 50s like they do now.
Teach a man to fish, and he won't go hungry. Teach rfk jr to fish, and he'll eat the worm.
Purveyors of the falsehoods seem to be involved for their own ends- not interest in public health,and benefitting financially from hawking expensive quack cures.
Slow sperm from older men is the cause of Autism. It has nothing to do with Vaccines!
No, that's one possible cause of a small percentage of cases.
Yet we have a vaccine denier as head of HHS…
No but listening to FOX News causes brain damage.
Don't forget Newsmax. They're $67 mill poorer now for causing brain damage.
Thank you!!!
And more than that… Vaccines do NOT contain microchips that allow the Communists/Democrats to turn you into mindless, obedient zombies. (Never mind that the Democrats aren’t Communists…how will a microchip function in a vial of liquid OR fit through the needle of a syringe?)
Would love to ask an anti-vaxxer whether or not they would give their child a rabies vaccine if bitten by a rabid animal (100% death rate)!
I’m NOT a virologist by any stretch but even I KNOW this! When did people start getting so stupid?! You don’t have to like smarter people but gahdamnnit what is likelier, a conspiracy by more intelligent people to hide autism or one media moron being right! #stopthink #deploythoughtsnow
I’m pretty sure stupid has been around a long time.
Come on!
We know that. It’s the people who had children who can’t accept that there is something wrong with their child. It couldn’t have been anything they did so where to blame? Excuses for what. Acceptance. No not them. Nobody knows why or how things happen. It just happens. Looking to blame is stupid.
This would be easier to understand if they released the Epstein files.
Say it louder for the pro-disease idiots in the back!!!
Thank god for vaccines !! Vaccines have saved all our lives definitely !!
Tell that to RFK ... Oh
Cancelling vaccines kills!
Could you share that with RFK Jr.
A+ post coming from an account called pestilence lol keep em coming
I have had covid twice. Both times I got a slightly sore throat and a bit of a runny nose. 2 of my antivax friends got VERY ill. One was in ICU for 3 days. The other still suffers after 3 months.
Exactly.
Thank you for sharing. It is refreshing to hear logic every once in awhile.
You people and your “science”.
Sorry. I’ll keep the facts and science to a minimum from now on.😉
Companies loose money with vaccines, but make money with treatments😈
I have no scientific knowledge whatsoever concerning this subject other than to point out how can you be so sure in your final statement when the MRNA vaccine is new and different to other vaccines and governments are refusing to release autopsy details about deaths from covid
We need to stop calling the anti-vaxxers...they're pro-diseasers.
It's unfortunate that their stance on vaccines isn't only affecting them. Otherwise, I would say, let nature take its course.
Plague Enthusiasts
Or just fucking moronic idiotholes
They're just idiots.
This. Pro-extinction.
Unfortunately, they seem to be reproducing before getting their Darwin Awards.
Indeed.
Pro-death
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I wonder at the cost of society fighting against the ignorance and deliberate harm caused by Adderall freaks, heroin junkies and other drug users in our Government now. As they spew garbage to get money and clicks, our children suffer trying to make sense of adults who have lost all decency.
No of course it doesn't but Tylenol might.
Say it again, now!
man what if it turned out that nimbyism causes autism. we could kill three birds with one stone.
Yesss!
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If vaccines caused Autism USA would have high speed rail
Funny how autism still exists in parts of the world where they don't vaccinate 🤔
Here’s the thing that is unfathomable to me: Some weirdos put on a doctor’s coat, go on TV and dare saying (without getting red in their face) that if you take an mRNA jab you’ll mutate into a race horse, you become magnetic, whatever - bc they researched the internet…and their BS resonates w ppl….
They never have. The science proves it. Unfortunately, vaccines can't prevent stupidity.
If, for the sake of argument, there has been a rise in reported cases of autism that started around the time measles or other vaccines, I am dead certain that the vaccines had nothing to do with it. I believe that advances in medicine made diagnosing easier.
Considering fifty years ago the medical establishment didn't even believe women could be autistic, I'd wager 75-90% of autistic people went completely unnoticed.
Exactly! There wasn't a rise in autism thanks to vaccines. It just became easier to diagnose, and the numbers rose naturally.
Yep. Looking back to my school years now, there were 3 kids in my class who today would be classified as autistic for sure.
WRONG, the MMR vaccine is broadly sterilizing preventing infection, everyone including the Biden assumed and forced that attitude about the initial run of Covid vaccines to force a return to normal.
there are lots of vaccines that do prevent infection
All vaccines prevent infection in a large percentage of people who receive them. No vaccines prevent infection 100% in 100% of recipients, because humans are genetically different from one another.
RFK, Jr. lost the ability to understand sentences like that a long time ago.
Vaccines cause adulthood.
This. It would really be nice if people actually understood the significance of actual evidence of very large, long term studies instead of stubbornly latching onto discredited propaganda.
Truly our educational system has failed us. People don’t check sources. Don’t understand statistics. Fall victim to logic fallacies. And so much more en.ssi.dk/news/news/20...
But I saw it on Facebook! Cuz that poster listening to rfk jr knows more than doctors, scientists, and decades of studies and peer reviews.
This one really gets me… people don’t get that peer review is not a singular standard. Each pub. has its own peer review process. The Lancet’s & New England Journal of Medicine both have rigorous peer review processes. Is it a junk journal with weak peer review process?
I had someone lecture me on the dangers of vaccines and they held up a junk study as evidence. When I pointed this out. I got, it’s peer reviewed. I said did you check the source and quality of peer review. “It’s PubMed, dr’s rely on that.”
Yes, but you understand that PubMed is a database (library) right? It didn’t publish the article, that was X journal. You can just access the article through PubMed. Further, X Journal has a significant history of retractions and having peer review acceptance reversed.
Did you check out its peer reviewed process. Is it a rigorous process? Did you look at the study size? Is so small as to be irrelevant in drawing statistical conclusions? “But, but it’s peer reviewed.”
Please. Check sources people - it’s really not that hard. Do not give me a study of less than 70 people when I can point to a study of over a million.
I’m not a medical professional. Do I am not qualified to critique the science. But very simple research skills that everyone should learn in junior high should be used as a guide on credibility
💯 Bonita! Association does not mean causation.
And for heavens sake, schools should teach basic statistics. I know it is not a subject many like… but just the basics so that people understand the importance of things like sample size.
Don’t show me a junk study of less than 70 people and doggedly latch onto as ‘proof’ and then disregard a study of over million. A small study can be an important indication of further research needed. But the statistical relevance is apple and oranges
when next to a large study done over significant time.
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Yes, thank you
Simple enough to earn a follow! 👍🏼
Depressing we still have to keep saying this. Febrile illnesses like measles can cause brain damage though - I used to work with disabled adults some of whom had been damaged as kids after infection. Get your kids vaccinated.
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thats right. its so when you get infected, the pathogen doesnt get far
Simple facts that used to be taught to every school kid.
Anti-vax = Pro-disease. 🧢
Direct, informative, true and succinct. Thanks.😊
Tylenol causes autism
It is a little confusing that people living in the 21st century don't understand this simple concept.
Hear, ye , hear ye, JFK jr.
Truth
Correct
They dont cause autism but i wish they did so we could have less neurotypicals in the world
Well, some of them are meant to prevent infections, but otherwise correct.
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Bauxite, the primary component in aluminum, is the most prevalent element on Earth.
Hbomberguy did a wonderful video explaining the history of the false claim that vaccines cause autism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIc...
Exactly.
Detractors falsely point out "mercury" and "thimerosol" as THE vaccine components causing autism regardless of not using these chemicals for more than 25 years! If a 4 year old displays autistic behavior today after one vaccination, it has nothing to do with mercury!
Washington vaccinated troops against small pox during the American Revolution. Hundreds of lives were saved. Unfortunately our native population had NO IMMUNITY. 90% of smallpox virus dies on surfaces within 24 hours. U.S. infected natives with small pox blankets? Not blankets, people infected them.
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Vaccines sure as fuck cause stupidity in people who believe vaccines don't work though.
Right‽ Like, without vaccines most of the people complaining about them wouldn't exist to be complaining. 🤷🏻
Just here to laugh at some google university virologist 😌🤷♂️
And sometimes, that over stimulates mast cells, and trigger thyroid autoimmune conditions or brain swelling in the limbic system, which is a tiny subset of the population, can increase severity and decrease onset age of autism. Our immune systems are not all created equal
Most people have to vaccinate for those of us who can't
Vaccines cause adulthood.
Thank you for saying it out loud. Rfkjr. IS NOT ANYKIND OF Dr. @ all Congress had NO TROUBLE passing Him to be HHS SECRETARY. THANK the LORD WE HAVE OUR OWN DRS who would listen to him anyway @ their own peril, I guess! Yet trump picks him to make us ill! I believe Trump is trying to kill us all!!
🤩well done.
That is why most people that were in the hospital and dying of COVID were not vaccinated. It is very simple but dumb people seem to not get it!
Excellent
Unfortunately, "No amount of evidence will convince an idiot." Also, and equally as sad is "It's easier to fool someone than to convince then they have been fooled." Both by Mark Twain.
You also don’t get flu from a flu shot.
I read somewhere that Autism is passed on through male genetics (sperm) - speculating here but what if that little blue pill is contributing to degrading the quality of sperm ?
If parents engage in rough sex, the physical impacts could affect the child's brain development. Side effects manifest in adulthood, involving speculation about the quality of sperm and autism on social media. Access to appropriate resources is recommended as therapy, and recovery is complete. 😉
I regret that I can like this only once.
You’re welcome! 🤭😆
God, you are weird
Oh come on, take the brim out of your back and have a bit of fun. Laugh, enjoy the 2nd degree, don’t blame others to be weird when you believe that low quality sperm is provoking autism. Piece and fun. ✌️
You don't need anything extra to pass on genetic material. Sperm quality doesn’t need to be "degraded" to have the genes for a mostly heritable trait.
I’m not a geneticist & have no interest in agreeing or disagreeing with your statement. The fact that genes can be modified in vitro for some genetic markers proves your theory incorrect
There are over 30,000 studies that show genetic markers for autism. It predates all of the "environmental factors" non-scientists like to blame by centuries, according to medical literature, and most likely has always been in the gene pool since hominins existed.
A drug is not an environmental factor.
jdc.jefferson.edu/cgi/viewcont...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
No such thing as fetal alcohol syndrome?
So thalidomide didn't impact fetal limb development?
What does that have to do with anything? It’s never been approved for use in the US.
It's an example of a drug being an environmental factor.
In fact, anything that isn't genetic is environmental.
No
What do you think “environmental” means?
This should be interesting.
Did AI tell you that ?
Nope. I've been reading scientific studies for several decades now.
Oh & appeals to authority are the lamest rhetorical device.
Citing experts with solid credentials in their field and research to back up claims is nothing at all like appeal to authority. In fact, what makes an appeal to authority a fallacy is the authority's lack of subject matter expertise.
Fail. That’s not how the appeal to authority works. Good try though.
quillbot.com/blog/reasoni...
lucidphilosophy.com/19-appeal-to...
helpfulprofessor.com/appeal-to-au...
www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfalla...
www.scribbr.com/fallacies/ap...
& you have time on SM to quibble ? I’ve not attested to any scientific knowledge. Part one) I read somewhere that austim passes through sperm/male DNA. Part 2) speculating if little blue pill degrades sperm. Considering you’re so learned your reading & comprehension skills are wanting
I'm retired now. Yes, I have time on top of decades of reading primary source materials.
It’s generally a good maxim that if you are not knowledgeable of any particular subject, then stop right there.
Good. Practice it for yourself. Start now
Screenshot of where this person has done that?
Better than speculating, try reconsidering where you "read things" and learning how to assess the quality of that information. Probably more likely that autistic fathers had autistic children, and you "don't get autistic women".
Oh, dear heart. I’ll speculate all I want. You can scoot back under your rock now.
autism isn't just gendered to males. all people of all genders can be autistic. pretty sure it's just genetic in general. what you probably read is that older sperm (older men) are more likely to have autistic children. but you're more likely to have autistic children if you are autistic. period.
Oh really ? More boys than girls have autism. Never bought into old man sperm theory. www.nih.gov/news-events/...
Unfortunately for you, if you post things on the internet, people will have opinions about them. If you want anyone to take you seriously you're going to have to bring us the scientific papers which evidence your speculation. Anywhere under the rock is fine!
I have no problem with opinions.
Honestly, I think that the spike in autism is from people delaying having children until they are older. Not that I blame them with how expensive everything is. But 30s and sometimes 40s to have kids may be passing the expiration date.
I don’t know enough to speculate on that ! I recall seeing a news report (watch out alarmist, I’m recalling !) where one young family had 3 or 4 children & all of the kids were all on the spectrum at varying degrees. My heart goes out to parents & caregivers who do not have the resources or access
to supports for the children.
“I read somewhere” - stop speculating. You’re not advancing a hypothesis or contributing to the discussion.
No, but the part of western men having lower sperms counts now is true.
& quality. Slow swimmers. Something is going on
Same as in Iowa with the cancer rates. Probably pesticides and toxins they spray everywhere. Of course, that little blue pill seems to hit the right timeline as well. On another note, I'm sick of all the ed ads for the generic. These guys can't even get a women now a days. They don't need a pill.
Cancer ally is another example. Even after winning a landmark case decades ago to have the water cleaned up, what still flows out of taps is chemical sludge. Agree with the ED ads .. I mean really Cock and text 6969 tells you a lot about any guy who would buy into that
We need to stop the flow of cash from these big corps into our government. They are literally killing us.
Show the files
Well stated.
Don't worry about the anti vax lobby Let Darwin's Theory do it's thing
Problem is all the others they take down with them. Children can't get (effectively) vaccinated against measles until 12 months. People who develop measles lose their immunity to everything else after infection.
And they don’t believe in that theory either. 🤦♂️
