Vaccine skeptic hired to conduct government study on whether vaccines cause autism

All because of one debunked research paper fuck long ago. Damn did that do so much damage

Wouldn't that involve them causing autism to prove it does?
"I'm autistic because I was a test subject for a government op..."
bruh...
- Honestly there is an even darker side to this.
  There are parents who would rather see there kid die from a preventable disease than have Autism.
  
  Exactly. Death is preferable. Wait until they claim that they cause homosexuality.
- Plot twist: they scale up the study nationwide, offering free flu vaccines to anyone who "volunteers" for the study as long as they take an autism test before and after.

I never thought I'd have a gov that had a health dept that was determined to make me sick. I expect things to be occasionally suppressed, bias, and flawed studies but not a deliberate effort. It is like they put the Phillip Morris tobacco company in charge.

There's no such thing as a "vaccine skeptic".
Skeptic implies that they could have their opinion swayed if presented with evidence. The fact that they're still "skeptical" despite literal mountains of evidence shows that they only call themselves "skeptics" because it makes them sound reasonable, when in reality if they could have been swayed by reason they would have changed their minds a long time ago.
- Any paper showing Vaccines don't cause Autism is immediately disregarded as "propaganda from the far left"
- they try to downplay anti-vaxxers, thats what they really are, this include vaccine hesitency.

Similarly - they are planning on releasing their own anti trans report, which will be used to hurt trans people. Please be prepared for this. We need help.

Next up, UFO conspiracists will determine if alien UFOs are real, Kennedy assassination conspiracists will review the Kennedy files.

WaPo strikes again with a plausibly deniable disinformation title, using the word "skeptic" wrong on purpose. I expect nothing less from Bezos.

Th3ry will continue to search until they find the answer they want

I can't wait to find out his conclusion! Should we take bets?

“You’ll never believe it, Mr Kennedy. According to our data, vaccines causes cancer”, he says, smiling. “Once we increased our vaccination rates, cancer became a major cause of death within 15 years. I suspect that far fewer people will die of cancer, if we simply roll our policies back
- And more people will die of polio, measles, mumps, and other preventable diseases BEFORE they have the chance to die from cancer!
- "Name one person that died of cancer who never received a vaccine for anything. That's what I thought!"
- And we also discovered everyone who drinks water, has died some point in their life. We must take all the water from the people and give them to corporations so they can protect us.
  
  Ban dihydromonooxide!
- F cancer.
  Not that way...

Autism isn't a fucking defect
- They are less susceptible to propaganda, which authorities figures hate.
  
  Is that why I'm cursed to see reality?
- I feel defective though.
  
  Being branded atypical and living in a world built without you in mind probably affects that more than you sucking

If the word "skeptic" in the title actually meant that, this would be a good thing. It's good to be skeptic about everything until you're shown evidence. The problem here is that those folks aren't really skeptic.
- Yeah, he's a liar, not a skeptic. He's denying evidence, not demanding it.
- Hard to accept a “skeptic” in a field with overwhelming evidence that he’s wrong. It means he either doesn’t or refuses to understand the current data which makes him just a dummy not a skeptic
  
  That's quite literally what op said
- People decide to believe something and then look for evidence
  Like or not that's the human thing to do. Breaking out of that mindset is hard.

These people have co-opted the work "skeptic".
I grew up Orthodox and became skeptical of god's role in my life, now I'm agnostic.
My parents became "skeptical" of vaccines. Once they found their first antivax substack they are no longer "skeptical" but rather certain vaccines cause autism and covid vax causes heart attacks.
I find it hilarious (sad) they stop being skeptical once they find "proof" of their suspicions and then claim to be skeptics.
They of course have seen all the research supporting vaccines and deemed it insubmissable because it was funded by big pharma or the WHO (CHINA).
The only science they believe is the shit pushed by their "independent" researchers (crunchy influencers).
🤮
- Don't worry, Republicans have been hard at work destroying our public education system so that people in the future won't be burdened with seeing and understanding their parents' hypocrisy for what it is.
- When you're agnostic you're just a closet atheist. It's not that atheists are sure there is no god, we're not, nobody can say that for sure. We can (and do) say, however, that you don't have to worry about made up fairy tale rules, there likely isn't a god. Just be a nice person and you'll be fine.
  
  All of the agnostics I know openly identity as atheists, too.
  
  This is not true at all. That is why agnostic and atheist are two separate words with two separate meanings. I agree with the be a nice person part though.
  
  I'm agnostic. Definitely not a closet atheist. I actually talk about God with my closest and most catholic friend regularly
  
  I used to call myself an atheist but switched to agnostic since I don't know for certain. My agnostic belief in a higher power is NOT the judgemental rule writing god of scripture. More of a default reason for enexplainable things in our universe. As science progresses there are less things where the higher power is needed.
  But that's just me.
  I always told my parents when they were disappointed in me for ditching the "Faith": I may be a bad Jew but I make every effort to be a good person.
  
  Atheist moment
  
  I think we can be for sure, religious skeptic is an equally ridiculous term. It's like saying I'm a teacup-around-Saturn skeptic. In any reasonable meaning of the word "certain", "truth", or "sure", the teacup and any deity do not exist nor play any role in our lives. They deserve no consideration except for niche discussions in philosophy and epistemology. We should use the teacup example even in that case, not the deity one.
  
  agnostic arnt aethiest thought.

They really should review dihydrogen monoxide which is continually pushed by doctors but has a 100% mortality rate! DO YOUR RESEARCH!
- Goodness me. It's so dangerous it eats away at untreated metal. How could they foist this dangerous mixture onto us. It's worse than micro plastics. I heard estimates that claim it's now found in every living American.... and may even be now found in almost all of our food. Absolutely disgusting.
- This is why RFK only drinks methylated paint thinner.
  Well that and he confused the methyl-part with methamphetamine.
  Don’t do meth. Or methyl alcohol. Both are awful.
  
  methylene blue to be exact, he has been seen in a video, of him using a large dropper of methylene blue on a flight into his drink. he bought into the unsubstantiated reports of it being useful.
- The leading cause of death is life!
- Nah, that's just a red herring, and completely discredited. The real problem is hydrogen hydroxide. Everywhere that you see dihydrogen monoxide, there's also hydrogen hydroxide. That's the real danger.
  (/S for people that don't know the different chemical names)
  
  H2 would be explosive.

There was never a link to begin with. Never.

pro-worm but agaisnt vaccines.

I feel like using terms like "vaccine skeptic" for these morons is a major PR win for them. It makes it sound way more legitimate than it is. Fuck corporate media sanewashing everything going on politically right now.

*denialist

I feel like I should start wearing a mask again in stores and other crowds, because this administration is going to kill me if I wait for the experts.
ps There are no experts anymore just these anti vaccine loony fuckshits.
- They fired all of the people working on the bird flu and put an anti-vaxxer in charge of public health. What could possibly go wrong?
- I never stopped. And I damn well won't be anytime soon.
  A large enough proportion of the populace has deemed it their God Given Right to infect anyone and everyone under the doctrine of "It's Just the Flu, Bro".
  
  for real. During covid, I didn't get sick once, and that was heavenly cause when I get sick, it runs for weeks and get really really bad. I thought that wearing masks when sick would be the norm now, but whatever
- i actually dint stop, because interact with customers alot, and they are ALWAYS sick all the time. and they cough and sneeze without covering thier mouth or nose.
- In my state mask wearing is illegal

Someone please create a AI video of a debate with Trump about vaccines, where he gets dunked.
If they don't play fair, we don't have to either.
- Forget the serious debate videos—his supporters aren't watching those, and even if they did, they wouldn't care. You want to make a dent? You go after the ego.
  Picture this: an endless stream of totally "realistic" phone-recorded AI videos of Trump playing golf. He lines up the putt—misses. Tries again—air ball. It's literally an inch away now—misses again. Doesn’t blink, just traps it in, smirks, walks off like he nailed it. Over and over.
  The key is subtlety. These can’t look staged or flashy—make them feel like someone’s nephew filmed it from the cart. Make it look like he's genuinely terrible but thinks he’s crushing it.
  Then blast them everywhere. Flood the algorithm. Turn his “I’m the best at golf” schtick into a punchline.
  This is how you use AI to actually take Trump down—with a thousand tiny ego papercuts.
- Right now, we can empirically accuse them of lying. They cannot do the same. The minute we start doing this, we lose that advantage. Lies dilute the truth.
  Fighting fire with fire isn’t always the best tactic.
  
  They don't have to Empirically accuse anyone of lying, they just accuse. Because they're liars and have no interest in truth or accuracy.
  
  Don't start speaking sense around here mate, they don't like it.
  
  Yeah but look where playing fair got us

"LET'S FIGURE OUT AND CURE AUTISM" they say as if a considerable amount of humanity's greatest inventions/discoveries aren't accredited to people across the spectrum.

With data manipulation you can prove that vaccines cause pigs to fly
- Of course. There are a larger number of vaccinated people who have used a trebuchet than non-vaccinated people, and trebuchets are a great way of helping pigs fly

I'd just like to caveat that a slim majority of American voters outdid themselves to undo decades of past hard-won progress.
- A third of eligible voters didn't vote. The remaining people who did vote were almost evenly split. So, in rough numbers, 1/3rd of American voters put us all in this mess.
  
  No, 2/3rds.
  The third-ish that voted for Trump, and the third-ish that didn't vote for Harris.
  In other words, the majority of Americans either wanted this government, or didn't care if this was the government.
  
  shouldve seen the excuses on reddit, right after the election.
- a slim majority
  Not even that. The majority of voters, 50.2%, voted for Harris or third party.
  
  And how many eligible voters didn't bother to vote? They're also equally responsible for this.
  
  "Or third party"
  I see the problem...

Headline later...
90% of people with autism were vaccinated! Vaccines cause autism!
Actual data later
90% of the population is vaccinated. The rate of autism in the 90% and remaining unvaccinated 10% is exactly the same.

Being skeptic is not bad. Not seek nor relay on scientific evidences is the problem...

I hope this is a situation like the documentaries made to prove flat earth that do the opposite
- I don't see that happening unfortunately
  RFK already fired someone for not publishing a paper showing vaccines cause Autism.
  
  Seriously?

Mark Geier
Is that the patient 0 of that autism claim? The one that was discredited decades ago (both the person and the claim)?
The biggest problem with him was, he just couldn't admit he had been wrong and continued to spout the bullshit, thus discovering a moderately profitable grift. And now his son is continuing it.

Honestly, I think this is awesome.
- In what way is this awesome? I can see the dark humor but that's about it.
- Yeah man I think it's awesome we have to worry about diseases we basically eradicated again. It builds character

We know what contributes a lot to developing autism. It's pollution, more specifically small particle matter found in for example car exhaust. The same cars for which they're now killing the environmental regulations.
- That’s ok as long as they’re still doing incentives to build out charging networks and transition manufacturers to new technology …… crap.
  Is the real problem that someone used ”transition” referring to the technology change from ICE to EV?

As long as it's peer reviewed, this is fine. If they want to try and pass off faulty research as if it were valid, then all they're going to do is embarrass themselves.
- then all they're going to do is embarrass themselves.
  No, they'll also set government policy that kills people.
- … then all they're going to do is ~~embarrass themselves.~~ get published in the lancet.
  FTFY.
  The original study that said there might be a connection, was originally published in the lancet. It was later retracted, after years, but the damage was done.
  which… the study looked at like a dozen autistic kids and found they had all gotten vaccines.
  They all, also probably had all worn clothes. You don’t see people saying “clothes cause autism!”, though. Or you know, breathed air. Drank water. Played outside in the sunshine. I’m sure there’s more.
  
  jenny mccarthy is one of the people that jumpstarted the movement among white middle aged moms, and then it branched off from there. i noticed they branched off into the cult of believing "chronic lyme" exists too.
  
  I'm going with 5G towers. That makes the most sense. /s
- Peer reviewed? Where are they going to find enough brainworm victims to be considered peers?