• RandomVideos@programming.dev
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    27 days ago

    I dont understand people claiming vaccines cause autism. It clearly has a small chance since most people are vaccinated. If they didnt prevent diseases, why would so many people promote them? If they did prevent diseases, do the people claiming vaccines are bad prefer their child dying from a disease more than their child having autism?

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      I dont understand people claiming vaccines cause autism.

      RFK has a thing about Thimerosal in vaccines because heavy metals like lead, cadmium, and mercury directly influence gene expression.

      But most vaccines in the US and Europe have already had Thimerosal removed as a precautionary measure, even though there is no evidence that thiomersal in vaccines caused harm.

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      25 days ago

      As you say, people would really rather watch their children and elderly family members die preventable, agonizing deaths than risk getting autism. Of course this also comes from their belief that these diseases aren’t that bad, and that they aren’t even common(because of the vaccines but they don’t understand that). They also think that all autism is the 100% low-functioning, non-verbal, violent kind which is just complete horseshit.

      In short: They’re fucking stupid.

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      26 days ago

      Wtf? They don’t cause autism. There isn’t a small chance. The fjck wrong with you

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        26 days ago

        They obviously dont cause autism. But even if you ignore everything people who know things about the subject say, it still wouldnt make sense to claim that vaccines are bad

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        26 days ago

        He says “assuming”, perhaps he could have further clarified for sake of argument. He’s saying even without debunking the claim, you can just wave your hand around and point the smile reality of relatively few people with autism despite majority of people vaccinated.

        That’s not to say the claim is true, just that even if it were, it’s still stupid