• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Can we convince people that Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy and RFK, Jr. cause autism?

    (I don’t believe there’s anything actually wrong with being autistic, I have multiple autistic people in my family. I just think that would be amusing.)

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      Steps:

      1. be (usually born) rich
      2. have an agenda
      3. use your wealth to accomplish it
      4. lie, cheat, steal, do whatever you have to in order to “win”

      Did I leave anything out? :-P

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      5 months ago

      Can we convince people that Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy and RFK, Jr. cause autism?

      Not autism. They cause death.

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        For the idiots who avoid vaccinating their kids because “it causes autism,” death is preferable. Consider that they would rather take that risk than be put in a situation of having to parent a neuroatypical child.

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          This is what always got to me the most. Even if vaccines caused autism, wouldn’t that be preferable to your kid dying? Like, what the fuck is wrong with these people.

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      (I don’t believe there’s anything actually wrong with being autistic, I have multiple autistic people in my family. I just think that would be amusing.)

      there’s probably a less tenuous correlation there, though. just saying. Granted, correlation is not causation, but, eh… yeah.

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        5 months ago

        I know, but imagine all of these people in this ludicrous panic suddenly thinking Wakefield is the culprit for autism…