Hey, at least give discredit where it's due, the brits are the ones who started it.
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I think most of this is genuine belief. There was a doctor named Wakefield who fraudulently published this autism claim in academic journals. Those papers were retracted, but the damage was done.
I think it sticks around as a conspiracy, because otherwise there's not a whole lot else that can explain the causes or origins of autism.
Well, aside from the boring "routine expression of a spectrum of neurodivergent traits being better understood leading to increased ability to properly diagnose it, and increased awareness and support in the public education system allowing more teachers to see early indicators and advise medical consultation early so kids can get better support".
They used to just call mildly autistic people geeks and best them with rulers. Now they let them wear headphones to reduce distractions if they need it.
Yes, there are fuckheads here that genuinely believe it (and other crazy shit) and I wish they'd all get cancer and die.
They contribute nothing to society and they typically have zero redeeming qualities. The entire world would be better off if they were dead, full stop.
I work with several people who believe this.
Your friend’s mom is a fucking idiot that would believe literally anything that the “right” person would say.
Absolutely a gullible little tool that’s behaving just as they want.
Do you see how these days anyone challenging authority and pointing out issues gets labeled and dismissed as a "conspiracist"? In the past years governments worldwide with the help of social networks and mass media pushed stupid ass conspiracy forward like flat earth and no vax as a tool to control and downplay dissent.
With the healtcare system being controlled by for profit evil corporations, medics treating people as if they were robots and after the covid pandemic where experimental vaccines got forced on people against their rights, vaccines misinformation found a fertile ground.
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only the ones that are anti-vax believe that, in the us theres this lady , jenny mccarthny who jumpstarted the movement.
In another post, the user who didn't want vaccines said it's that they did not want to put the comfort of others above their own.
I guess that's a valid stance but it's definitely not a view I share.
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It's sadly real. There are a lot of parents who would rather their child died a preventable death than have trouble making eye contact.
I've never met anyone like that in person, but some people genuinely believe it.
Just wait until OP learns about us taking horse paste during covid
Yes. America is a joke.