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Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol (arstechnica.com)

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[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"We didn’t wait 20 years for Bobby to finally speak and then get served Tylenol as an answer," anti-vaccine group Georgia Coalition for Vaccine Choice wrote in an unhinged Facebook post on Monday morning.

Aww, poor babies! Did their deranged, unsubstantiated fantasies not pan our exactly as they wanted? Did a different unrelated product get associated with their delusional conspiracies instead? Are their feelings hurt now?

Take a fucking ticket and get behind all the victims of real grievance... genocide, poverty, needles job loss, exploitation, climate change, terrorism, racial abuse, sexual assault and discrimination, gender identity abuse, untreatable mental illness due to no insurance, chronic medical conditions, and depression!

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I would say these people are all fucking jokes and provide epic levels of comedy, but that quote: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" often comes to mind with this level of insanity.

The people that follow the likes of Taco and Bobby Brainworm are fucking dangerous as a mob, and they are going to cause serious harm. At this point, depressingly, it seems the best outcome from this horrible clownshow is that they cause lots of death and misery indirectly (by introducing chaos into society when it comes to how and when to get vaccines, when it comes to defunding so very much research into diseases - right on the precipice of seeing huge breakthroughs due to things like AI, massive compute power thrown at protein folding, etc., these ignorant assholes come along and overturn the table because they are broken, incredibly vain people with very bad and stupid ideas and followers that are "doing their own research").

I'm worried they might take it upon themselves to take actions that will actively cause harm.

[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

When the dumbest people in the room all disagree with each other because they believe different lies. These people deserve each other.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's like watching idiotic Young Earth Creationists arguing with Old Earth Creationists.

They are both thoroughly full of shit, but each one thinks the other is ruining the brand and/or offending their god.

In this case, I'm thinking there is lots of grifting money hanging in the balance. The "wellness movement" likes to cast aspersions on Big Pharma, but it's not like they are doing what they do for the altruism. For the dipshit creationists, the grift might be selling a book or something to indoctrinate your (or someone else's) children with.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

If that's all we hear - is that the end? Not thimerosal. Not aluminum. Not MMR. Not Hep B.

Correct! It's not caused by any of those things. Just like it's not caused by:

"Refrigerator mothers"
Not enough hugs
Trauma during childbirth
Being raised in an orphanage
Sugar
Food dyes and preservatives
HFCS
Eating too much fast food
WiFi or 5G
Humors
Fluoridated water
"Chemtrails"
Living near power lines

So on and so forth. Maybe—just maybe—there's no universal cause and it's just something that can happen.

Can there be things that increase the likelihood of an autistic child forming in a mother's womb? Surely! But that's the kind of thing that relies on statistics. Ya know, that thing you obviously don't trust because you never let go of the "vaccines cause autism" bullshit.

I have no doubt that after many, many decades of research—and maybe with the help of some big data/AI—we can figure out what sorts of things actually increase the likelihood of autism. It'll be probably something like: If you have these three genes and your partner has these other three genes then you should avoid eating venison while also consuming saccharine.

Maybe we'll get something better than that but if my experience with big data are any guide, the correlations are going to be wild and crazy like that... And they won't really give you "an answer", just places where a scientific investigation might be warranted.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I am pretty sure Tylenol causes ~~more engrams~~ mitochondrial challenges. I mean, right after someone takes Tylenol, I can see it in their faces. I'm pretty sure public spaces might concentrate the effects of the ~~engrams~~, I mean, mitochondrial challenges.

As a licensed scientism practitioner, I recommend that expecting mothers only take Tylenol when they have a properly fitted tinfoil hat and are wearing special copper rings on both wrists to help shield them from the subatomic particles that interact with and bind to the Tylenol in the mitochondria. Also, they should probably be giving themselves 5 coffee enemas a day, but the coffee must be civet coffee!

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think these dumbasses probably have several meltdowns a day.

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