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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

If you want a real summary. In order for anything to cause autism it would need to permanently change the way your brain works and the two systems(vaccines and mutations) are separate. Vaccines introduce the equivalence of an antigen for you to make antibodies which is not genetic manipulation just hijacking/abusing signalling pathways.

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 9 points 4 weeks ago

A distant family member wasn't vaccinated (can't remember why his parents chose not to). But when he was around 20, he got tested and was diagnosed with autism. I remember him posting about it in his socials and was like, "well, I'm gonna go get vaccinated now!"

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 22 points 4 weeks ago
[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 19 points 4 weeks ago

DOGE will eliminate this ridiculous waste of money, right? Right?

[–] iamericandre@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes. The movie is Half Baked.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

I'm sure they tried their best.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

If he ain't back in 10 mins we calling dominoes

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

They won't allow the results to show anything other than a link between the two.

[–] nicky7@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 weeks ago

It's my opinion that all US departments are now compromised. Any "research" done here will only have results that align with the white house. Much like any research headed by Marjorie Traitor Greene or JFK jr. would be so inherently flawed as to only show biased results.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 weeks ago

There’s no efficiency in this!

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If they end up citing the famous Lancet paper, then you know they didn’t even try to make up new bullshit.

For anyone unaware, Lancet published a paper in 1998 that claimed there were links between the MMR vaccine and environmental triggers that lead to loss of acquired skills including language. The study being conducted turned out to be fraudulent, with parents of many of the children involved in lawsuits against the vaccine manufacturers, as well as unethical treatment of children. 12 years later in 2010, Lancet retracted the paper. This paper is a very well known source anti-vaccination proponents have frequently cited. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2831678/

EDIT: If you want to watch a video explaining the study, this here is a good one. https://youtu.be/i00SYBe63EQ

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago

Ah, I figured it out

In pursuing the study, the C.D.C. is defying the wishes of the chairman of the Senate Health Committee, Senator Bill Cassidy, who said this week that further research into any supposed link between vaccines and autism would be a waste of money and a distraction from research that might shed light on the “true reason” for a rise in autism rates.

Some chemical company already knows why.

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago

Isn't autism an inherited thing?