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Vaccines don’t cause autism, but the lie won’t die. In fact, it’s getting worse. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

You know what's fucking extra stupid?

Out of all the things possible to blame autism on, they went with something that's so mild.

Like, there's a world out there full of toxic spills, ddt residue, agent orange residue, plastics, burning tires, gasoline fumes, etc ad infinitum, and it's vaccines these idiots latched onto.

Fuck, if autism were a purely environmental thing the way a vaccine is, vaccines would be the last suspect considering the lack of any immune factor in autistic people. Every autoimmune disorder I can think of has very clear signs that's what's going on.

Someone needs to start an anti-misinformation campaign to blame autism on plastics, see if maybe the idiots will switch to that target and do something useful where better regulations happen.