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RFK Jr to research unsupported link between vaccines and autism, Trump says
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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You might think, "What's the harm? They will waste some money and some time, but they won't find a link because their premise is flawed. We know there isn't a link between autism and vaccines, so they're just going to spin their wheels, right?"
Ask yourself, do you think Trump and RFK Jr would ever admit they were wrong? That they didn't find the evidence to support their theories? Trump used a sharpie to change a hurricane map because he mistakenly included the wrong state. They will find a link between vaccines and autism. A link we already know doesn't exist. A link that one doctor fabricated and then almost immediately was debunked fifty years ago. And these jackasses are going to fabricate some more fake evidence to send the crazies further off the cliff.
Evidence? EVIDENCE? They don't need evidence.
House panel concludes that COVID-19 pandemic came from a lab leak
I can't believe we went through covid to have officials write up bullshit like this. More false agendas.
Yeah it's pretty easy to do really bad science and get whatever result you want. Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.
People who got vaccines sometimes got autism. People without vaccines sometimes get autism.
RFK: We can conclusively say that vaccines cause autism since people who've had vaccines have developed autism!
You don't "get" autism like it's a cold, you are autistic and sometimes you get diagnosed, and sometimes you don't. We as a society have more educated people in places like schools to help identify kids way more than when Trump was having his dad pay for his dumbass to make it through school. It's just like his COVID solution of, if you don't test the numbers go down.
And why does nobody in the media push back on these jackasses to show their work? You make claims about millions of people you better have receipts, but of course these two intellectually-challenged white guys with money just get their every word quoted and published without any push back.
I know that, but that's not how these antivax people see it. They think you can get it.