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Vaccine skeptic hired to conduct government study on whether vaccines cause autism
(www.washingtonpost.com)
pro-worm but agaisnt vaccines.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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I hope this is a situation like the documentaries made to prove flat earth that do the opposite
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WaPo strikes again with a plausibly deniable disinformation title, using the word "skeptic" wrong on purpose. I expect nothing less from Bezos.
Someone please create a AI video of a debate with Trump about vaccines, where he gets dunked.
If they don't play fair, we don't have to either.
Right now, we can empirically accuse them of lying. They cannot do the same. The minute we start doing this, we lose that advantage. Lies dilute the truth.
Fighting fire with fire isn’t always the best tactic.
Yeah but look where playing fair got us
Don't start speaking sense around here mate, they don't like it.
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There was never a link to begin with. Never.
*denialist
Being skeptic is not bad. Not seek nor relay on scientific evidences is the problem...
Headline later...
90% of people with autism were vaccinated! Vaccines cause autism!
Actual data later
90% of the population is vaccinated. The rate of autism in the 90% and remaining unvaccinated 10% is exactly the same.
There's no such thing as a "vaccine skeptic".
Skeptic implies that they could have their opinion swayed if presented with evidence. The fact that they're still "skeptical" despite literal mountains of evidence shows that they only call themselves "skeptics" because it makes them sound reasonable, when in reality if they could have been swayed by reason they would have changed their minds a long time ago.
they try to downplay anti-vaxxers, thats what they really are, this include vaccine hesitency.
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"LET'S FIGURE OUT AND CURE AUTISM" they say as if a considerable amount of humanity's greatest inventions/discoveries aren't accredited to people across the spectrum.
Autism isn't a fucking defect
They are less susceptible to propaganda, which authorities figures hate.
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These people have co-opted the work "skeptic".
I grew up Orthodox and became skeptical of god's role in my life, now I'm agnostic.
My parents became "skeptical" of vaccines. Once they found their first antivax substack they are no longer "skeptical" but rather certain vaccines cause autism and covid vax causes heart attacks.
I find it hilarious (sad) they stop being skeptical once they find "proof" of their suspicions and then claim to be skeptics.
They of course have seen all the research supporting vaccines and deemed it insubmissable because it was funded by big pharma or the WHO (CHINA).
The only science they believe is the shit pushed by their "independent" researchers (crunchy influencers).
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When you're agnostic you're just a closet atheist. It's not that atheists are sure there is no god, we're not, nobody can say that for sure. We can (and do) say, however, that you don't have to worry about made up fairy tale rules, there likely isn't a god. Just be a nice person and you'll be fine.
I'm agnostic. Definitely not a closet atheist. I actually talk about God with my closest and most catholic friend regularly
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I think we can be for sure, religious skeptic is an equally ridiculous term. It's like saying I'm a teacup-around-Saturn skeptic. In any reasonable meaning of the word "certain", "truth", or "sure", the teacup and any deity do not exist nor play any role in our lives. They deserve no consideration except for niche discussions in philosophy and epistemology. We should use the teacup example even in that case, not the deity one.
I used to call myself an atheist but switched to agnostic since I don't know for certain. My agnostic belief in a higher power is NOT the judgemental rule writing god of scripture. More of a default reason for enexplainable things in our universe. As science progresses there are less things where the higher power is needed.
But that's just me.
I always told my parents when they were disappointed in me for ditching the "Faith": I may be a bad Jew but I make every effort to be a good person.
Atheist moment
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