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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (7 children)

hbomberguy did a fantastic video debunking these claims. Now if only the antivaxxers would actually watch it instead of staying in their own bubbles.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

oh they loooove YouTube videos, trust me. Just not THOSE videos

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm collecting vaccines like infinity stones. I'm going to unlock complete autism.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And you know what happens when you unlock complete autism? That's right: you gain the power to create your own vaccines, making you capable of reaching even new heights.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Oh, you're autistic? Name every time someone said you don't look autistic and that everyone is a little bit autistic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

i already have

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of my high school acquaintances posted on Facebook that Peppa the Pig causes autism.
I like that conspiracy theory much better, despite how illogical it is that watching a cartoon pig can cause a neurological disorder.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's because there is no punishment for spreading false information. These cunt celebrities and politicians spread their fucking lies and if they are found out, they make an empty apology that reaches 1% of the people that they lied to, and it's all forgive and forget. Fuck all of that. Every anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-education cunt out there needs to be strung up from the societal rafters. They have to be made an example of. At the bare minimum they should be doing tours helping to correct the lies they have spread, spending time on social media and running commercials like fucking community service hours. There has to be a punishment for this shit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m curious as to how that law would be written and what it would look like in practice.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

duh...they cause magnetism not autism. /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So thats why everyone with Autism is magnetic

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That explains why I repel people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But only other autistic people, right?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can we convince people that Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy and RFK, Jr. cause autism?

(I don't believe there's anything actually wrong with being autistic, I have multiple autistic people in my family. I just think that would be amusing.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being a Kennedy is more likely to cause lobotomies.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we convince people that Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy and RFK, Jr. cause autism?

Not autism. They cause death.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For the idiots who avoid vaccinating their kids because "it causes autism," death is preferable. Consider that they would rather take that risk than be put in a situation of having to parent a neuroatypical child.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Steps:

  1. be (usually born) rich
  2. have an agenda
  3. use your wealth to accomplish it
  4. lie, cheat, steal, do whatever you have to in order to "win"

Did I leave anything out? :-P

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(I don’t believe there’s anything actually wrong with being autistic, I have multiple autistic people in my family. I just think that would be amusing.)

there's probably a less tenuous correlation there, though. just saying. Granted, correlation is not causation, but, eh... yeah.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know, but imagine all of these people in this ludicrous panic suddenly thinking Wakefield is the culprit for autism...

[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im almost positive that Andrew Wakefield has caused more harm to modern medicine than any other person in the last 200 years.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His human megaphone, Jenny McCarthy, isn’t much better. No one heard of him before she advocated for his findings to be mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Don't forget Oprah who amplified the idea more than they ever could have done on their own

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (8 children)

There’s a correlation between wearing socks and athlete’s foot. Socks cause athletes foot, clearly, and so we shouldn’t wear socks when wearing shoes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amen, brother! I have long freed my feet from the prison that is the sock!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That just seems like a practical cost cutting measure for a squid.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, shoes for cloven hooves are custom and they cost a fortune. And I need four. :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

True. Also, buying five pairs of socks at once gets expensive.

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