this won't do anything for the antivaxx moms. they have a special kind of delusion that allows them to reach that point and refuse any other evidence, no matter how legitimate it may seem.
gUyS ItS RigGeD!!! tHE fDA ObvIOusLy FUndEd tHIs
Big Pharma done it
This came to mind.
All you have to do to counter the "government is poisoning our kids with autism" is think why the government would want to purposefully hamper its citizens/workforce.
Then the whole charade is turned upside down.
But then you see what the government is doing to actively suppress minorities, and sinking people in debt with shit policies.
Then the whole charade is turned right-side up...
Vaccines give you autism.
Literally no one who needs to know this will care.
What's the point of the study? It's like doing a study to confirm that 1+1=2? It's not going to change the minds of people who believe that 1+1=3.
You joke about this but they don't exactly have your health in their best interest.
Neither does the alternative medicine industry. At least one is based on scientific methodology and actual proof
Big Pharma will offer you a rope for $100 an inch while you dangle from a cliff edge.
Antivaxxers/Alternative Medicine will offer you good wishes for $100 a wish.
I don't like either but I know which one would prevent me from going arse-first onto an outcrop of rocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo
I wish the study wasn't behind a paywall so you could actually see their procedure.
Why are they even supposed to be wanting to dispense autism? Is it just to praise Satan or is a reason ever put forward?
The mindset is not that they want to cause autism, but they make too much money off the vaccines to stop production and instead just try to cover it up.
"Everything in the world is a conspiracy and there is always something else going on. Trust no one, not even yourself" mentality
i thought this was confirmed when andrew wakefield lost his medical license
Yep that's partially it. What doesn't help is all these news sites will report about any findings in relation to mitigating cancer and will hail it as 'THE CURE TO CANCER' when in reality it's far from it, or not FDA approved. After further investigation or FDA trials many of these don't make it through, or they are for one very specific case of left-testicle cancer.
Over the years, so many of these articles have popped out that a conspiracy theorist made his 10000 iq theory for the soccer moms that all those 'cures' were bought up by big pharma and they're holding onto all the cures for some obnoxious reason. They eat up those conspiracies and then suddenly they are super open to the idea that big pharma is injecting their kids with the autism.
How can we fix stupid ass people that refute all evidence and thinking vaccines cause autism?
"make more evidence of course"
I don't think conspiracy theories by themselves are a bad thing because they have happened and do happen. The main issue I see is people are quick to come to conclusions without reading into all the details and circumstances surrounding it. Context is extremely important as you can skew data any way by how you interpret/ what you sample. I can't really blame them for that mindset since doing that kind of research is a full-time job almost and most people don't have the time of day to really read into it. Most people posting here probably haven't ready the study itself but rather the article explaining it. (The paywall doesn't help that either)
Some of them like my mother will actually look at the evidence and come to the exact opposite conclusions as the rest of us too. For example she believes that we shouldn't use vaccines because some people have negative reactions to them. This completely glosses over the fact that far more people are helped than harmed by vaccines but it doesn't matter to her. The fact there's any negative side effects means they're not something we should use.
Which is kinda ironic because she had a heart attack in January and is now on heart meds that have some negative side effects but she takes them without question and with surprisingly few complaints.
Wakefield is a messiah to anti-vaxxers. He just happened to stir the pot at the perfect time: when people have virtually no trust in their government and think all kinds of evil conspiracies are being done
"for the fun of it". To sane people he was an ableist sociopath, but to the insane he was a truth bomb.
The idea that pharmaceutical companies are giving kids disorders and make too much money to not cover it up was the ultimate confirmation bias in the minds of conspiracy theorists. Malleable idiots were also influenced by it, hence why you see so many airheads spurting anti-vaxx drivel. I even had a teacher in HS who was a vaxx skeptic (the "why put mercury in my kid????" kind of crap)
It's all those "essential oils" they use to shield their kids.
Seems as though it's also affecting their brains.
People genuinely believe the bullshit about "essential oils" giving them protection which makes it even worse!
says the scientists who get paid by big needle !
That's called Cognitive Dissonance; No matter how much evidence is proved to be true, some people still choose to believe the opposite of the truth, for whatever reason.
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