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Doreene Close's avatar

There are more studies showing a link between aluminum and Autism than I can count. This study was designed to get the result that pharma and the vaccine pushers wanted. It isn’t going to work anymore. We have the biggest library in the world in our hands and many people are reading the studies and understand how the game works to keep the money flowing into the corporate drug pushers pockets.

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

We are in the Age of Stupid. We once believed we were in the Age of Aquarius, but the Constellation of Stupid has risen. You'd think the Sophons in the "Three Body Problem" had already cast their proton net over the planet to make sure we remain dumb. But no, we have done it all by ourselves.

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Marcus Damicus's avatar

Who you gonna believe? Some egghead from a country named after breakfast pastry? Or my Aunt Annie, who has an autistic kid and a Facebook page?

Checkmate, libs.

May every day be another wonderful secret.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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OG Blockhead's avatar

In the initial processing for USMC OCS we lined up for shots. This was in 1982. They used pneumatic injectors with something like six vials of who knows what, one for each arm. Painful. I'm probably vaccinated for anthrax and the black plague.

Anyway, I died then got autism.

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Jacqueline Klein's avatar

Has a single antivaxxer realized that autism has always been around. It’s just better diagnosed now. When I was a kid, kids with autism existed but they were considered slow, or “different” And ADHD was attributed to too much sugar making kids hyperactive, just like my brother. They don’t seem to have a clue that correlation is not causation. Science is a wonderful thing if you aren’t a lunatic who thinks science is a liberal hoax. The stupid just doesn’t stop.

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Maelen Moonsinger's avatar

One of Ambrose Bierce's most horrible Civil War stories, "Chickamauga," is about a clearly autistic toddler caught in the middle of a savage battle, who ends by discovering the dead body of his mother.

"The child moved his little hands, making wild, uncertain gestures. He uttered a series of inarticulate and indescribable cries—something between the chattering of an ape and the gobbling of a turkey—a startling, soulless, unholy sound, the language of a devil. The child was a deaf mute."

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Megan Macomber's avatar

RFKJr exploits the real pain of these folks for his selfish, stupid agenda. He is a sociopath; just listen to his kids' tales about life with Dad. And it takes a sociopath to put him in charge of the nation's health.

Psychopathy, up and down and across the cabinet. No conscience anywhere.

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Thomas B.'s avatar

As high-powered as a study as this was, it won't do anything to convince anyone who thinks differently. Believers believe; it's what they do. It is faith for them; belief without proof. And that will only be shaken by something that changes inside them, not by any study or fact, no matter how rigorous it is. Unfortunately.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

The original antivax movement was affluent white liberals. The arguments they used against vaccines were the same ones the climate change deniers used against global warming.

Well, they had to change a few of the words, like climate change to vaccines, but, other than that...

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Doreene Close's avatar

Not quite. Today people have a library in their hands and can read the actual studies. There are MANY showing a link between aluminum and Autism, especially in the overdose amounts in childhood vaccines. This newest one used the same tricks the cigarette companies used to get doctors to tell us in tv ADS that cigarette smoking was healthy.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

You're behind the times. There's no aluminum in vaccines. You need a new boogieman.

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Doreene Close's avatar

Say what. Go look at a vaccine insert.

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JCfromNC's avatar

// who believes carbon dioxide is good for trees //

It isn't? I mean, I grew up being taught that trees took in CO2 and put out O2 during photosynthesis, and then put out small amounts of CO2 at night. Is there a new understanding now that I've missed?

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Marcus Damicus's avatar

Just like too much oxygen is poisonous to us, too much CO2 is bad for plants.

May every day be another wonderful secret.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Cryny's avatar

Yeah, this doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Higher levels of CO₂ does benefit plants, though it's not worth the harm it does to the climate.

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Maelen Moonsinger's avatar

The CO₂ does benefit the plants, but the rising temperatures caused by the increased CO₂ kill them.

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Dina's avatar

I know, I was a little confused by that, too. I just had a rather simplified question in my quiz last night, "What compound gas is absorbed by plants?" and the answer is "Carbon Dioxide." It isn't like I don't research my questions, either (not to mention learning this in science classes from elementary school onward). Maybe it's a typo and was supposed to be carbon MONoxide?

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JCfromNC's avatar

That’s what I wondered, too.

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Anzu's avatar

I always go back to this quote from Benjamin Franklin on vaccines:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2653186/

“In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the smallpox taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of the parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.”

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mouthy fishwife's avatar

Things like autism and adhd often run in families. The fact that so many of us were vaccinated as children and are on the spectrum have parents who are on the spectrum and were vaccinated post childhood doesn’t seem to ever register to these idiots.

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

Refrigerators cause cancer, did you know? In every household where there is a cancer patient, there is a refrigerator - therefore, refrigerators must be a cause of cancer.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

The first round of the first COVID vax, which I got in early because I'm an old fart, had the same relieved happy feel as getting the polio vaccine in the Canfield High School gymnasium.

It was a moment of hope.

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Anzu's avatar

Oh yes, definitely, it just wasn't something that was diagnosed for our parents generation. I have ADHD-PI and I wasn't diagnosed as a child, but now that I know what it is, I know for sure that my father had it as well as myself.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. My brother, of blessed memory, was head-injured at birth by a nurse, and lived his short life (10-1/2 years) with Cerebral Palsy. The hospital falsified all records. My parents took from from this surgeon to that miracle cure; nothing worked. He died in an institution. To pay his medical bills as well as those of the institution in which he died, my dad sold his inventions (the business was in a loft on Morton Street) to his investor partner, who sold out to Celanese in the early 60s for millions. My dad never worked for himself again, we never saw a penny for anything he created, and every corporation at which he labored (color chemist/color engineer; made our vinyl records black) had him sign away the rights to any patent. I wanted to be a medical doctor until I woke up to the fact that iatrogenic medicine had killed and/or crippled so many of my family members. Yes, I should have been born into some wealth and privilege; I wasn't. I've never sought a scapegoat for this tsurris. I'd feel sorry for these assholes if they weren't so self-righteous.

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KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

If either Ron Johnson or RFK Junior said it - particularly if the "it" should be a medical matter - you can safely assume you are hearing deliberate untruth or a stupid, ignorant misapprehension, and that either way it's politically motivated. They are both irrational nitwits, and ignorant to nine decimal places, most of all on medical matters. With historical matters a close second, probably.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

The only medical matters RFK, Jr. has any expertise in concern his dick, and he doesn't even do that right.

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KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

If either Ron Johnson or RFK Junior said it - particularly if the "it" should be a medical matter - you can safely assume you are hearing deliberate untruth or a stupid, ignorant misapprehension, and that either way it's politically motivated. They are both irrational nitwits, and ignorant to nine decimal places, most of all on medical matters. With historical matters a close second, probably.

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Why So Lugubrious?'s avatar

You are very gentle.

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

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