A good dissection of bullshit “science” about vaccines - this dissection also highlights good general points to think about when applying critical thinking to any such out of left field “scientific” claims on the internet or those blathering dolts on TV news segments.
https://theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-failure-why-this-latest
Dig into things before promoting them on social media.
I am so fucking tired of people treating autism like it’s some horrible disease worse than death.
It’s just a different way of viewing and reacting to the world.
Are some autistic people severely intellectually disabled? Sure. Plenty of non-autistic people are too.
These antivaxxers act like if you kid is going to be autistic, you might as well have never had a kid.
And then on top of that, you have big antivaxxer proponent Jenny McCarthy saying she cured her son’s autism, so why did she make such a big fucking deal about it?
Incidentally, it’s been scrubbed from the web, but there used to be a website where Jenny McCarthy wrote an essay about how her son was an “indigo child,” which meant he was going to grow up to be superhuman with all sorts of amazing powers. It contained the unforgettable line, “after my son was born, I quit smoking.”
Edit: Ha! I found it on the Wayback Machine! And I was wrong about what she said. What she said was worse.
As all of you know, being a mother changes you in ways that you never thought you could imagine. I went from chain smoking and eating cheeseburgers to Hepa air filters and eating vegetarian after my son was born
Ouch, really said after, not during pregnancy.
Yeah, but the vaccines obviously caused her son’s problems! It’s hard to know if he even is autistic or if that was just part of her whole bullshit grift. She made a lot of money from this.
