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You think Lemmy is big enough for a paid shill? Kinda cool if it is.
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Just don't feed the trolls.
I have this conspiracy theory where he’s actually a genius who realized the world is overpopulated and is now on an evil genius plan to murder the world’s children to save the planet
But it’s obviously just a joke
He's against mercury in the vaccines.
A lot have been removed since his initial push against it, because the vaccines we were pumping into everyone had them.
I thank him for his work to get poisonous amounts of mercury out of the vaccines
"Thiomersal (also spelled thimerosal, especially in the United States) is an organomercury compound used as a preservative in vaccines to prevent bacterial and fungal contamination.[9] Following a mandated review of mercury-containing food and drugs in 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) determined that under the existing vaccination schedule "some children could be exposed to a cumulative level of mercury over the first 6 months of life that exceeds one of the federal guidelines on methyl mercury."[20][21] They asked vaccine makers to remove thiomersal from vaccines as quickly as possible as a precautionary measure, and it was rapidly phased out of most US and EU vaccines,[22][23] but is still used in multi-dose vials of flu vaccines in the U.S."
I'm pro-vaccine. So is RFK Jr. He has concerns with some of the testing and chemicals in some of the mandatory vaccines.
I'd rather have overly cautious studies when it comes to big pharma, their limited liability, their rich history in bribing US officials (including FDA members), pumping the country full of poison (see opioids) while lying to people about what is in their drugs.
Thiomersal is in almost no vaccines at this point, and you get more mercury from a can of tuna than you would from a vaccine with thiomersal in it.
So maybe start scaremongering about tuna salad sandwiches instead.
Do you know if Thiomersal was removed from most vaccines before or after the issue was brought up?
Why did you ignore the part of my comment about tuna?
I'm vegan.
Believe it or not, repeating that doesn't answer my questions.
Lemmy was having issues so I didn't see my initial reply.
Ok? How is that relevant to the fact that there is far more mercury in a can of tuna than there ever were in any vaccine? Shouldn't your dire warnings be tuna salad-based? Shouldn't you be telling the world that they'll get mercury poisoning from tuna salad?
I was asking a question, hoping you'd know before I'd have to research it on my own, since you seem to have done some research on this.
I don't get why you're being so passive aggressive so the vegan reply was meant as a joke.
Thanks to those who fought it!
And they recommend limited how much tuna one eats....because of....that's right! Mercury!
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I know they aren't the same thing.
I'm simply stating that due to thiomersal, there was questions of mercury poisoning. Most vaccines don't have thiomersal anymore (since 1999), which most agree is a good thing.
What are you even arguing?
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So is the CDC trustworthy?
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You just said the CDC doesn't make policies based on actual science.
I'm not changing the subject, my argument has always been against CDC and FDA corruption/misinformation
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So it can cause issues to some....why force it on 2 month olds?
I don't get why you think this argues against me? I never said it caused autism, I don't believe it does.
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You're not making a great case to mandate over 30 vaccines for kids without proper testing.
Nobody is arguing that. But rigorous testing in line with most western nations, seems fair.
Yeah, I don't like when the government forces every child to get a shot from a big pharma organization that pays the FDA to get through the testing with shitty made up science. I think there should be rigorous testing, which there are good trials, but just to be more in line with most of western europe, as opposed to safeguarding big pharma companies.
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Absolutely murdered. I upvoted your comment, kind stranger
In what way?