• acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    it doesn’t matter. ratfucker is convinced vaccines cause autism and is doing everything he can to sabotage them.

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      Vaccines do increase autism numbers.

      Most childhood vaccines are administered before symptoms of autism generally appear. A lot of children owed their lives to vaccines, and so got to develop autism, rather than dying.

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        i see what you’re saying but please be careful framing it this way. The biggest reason by far for more autism diagnoses is greater awareness, access to healthcare, and expanding the criteria to less severe cases. We are simply identifying people with autism better than we used to.

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          As a late diagnosed aspie, I fully get that. I also know that vaccines save a lot of lives, including fellow autistics.

          The phrasing is also fun to derail the brains of people complaining about vaccines. It can bypass their mental defences and makes them think for a moment. It doesn’t work on the hard core, but the casual idiots are easier to deprogram.

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      Meanwhile the link between pollution and autism is pretty clear, and the ratfuckers are removing all environmental regulations. Autism will increase instead.

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        Height of irony, RFKJr the “environmental lawyer”. Dude completely sold out to go on this anti vax crusade.