The amount in some flu vaccines is roughly equivalent to the amount of mercury found in a three-ounce can of tuna fish.
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overall, autism rates did not decline after thimerosal was removed from the vaccines, as many anti-vaccine groups suggested it would. Instead, the rates increased.
Sweet Jesus are we still having this “debate” ???
So long as people willing to lie have a megaphone and power, the “debate” never ends
It is likely akin to sunk-cost. They have already spent so much of their life having a thing to point at, that they don’t want it to have been wrong the whole time. Even though it was known to be wrong pretty much right away, that was already too late for some.
Some mindsets require assigning blame to an external locus in order to move on. There has to be no chance it was “their fault” even though it’s hard to really describe genetics as such…
There hasn’t really been anything else to suggest a fixed external potential source. So if this one is proven wrong, they are out of options. Ignoring, of course, that it has already been proven wrong. But, that is the reason why they feel it hasn’t. Because it’s so very important to them that it is right.
And of course barring all that, even the most profoundly affected individuals with Autism rarely blame their condition for the lowered quality of life, if any, they blame their surroundings or surrounders incapability of adjusting to their needs. With proper surroundings and surrounders, even at it’s worst, the downsides are manageable and the upsides can be really nice/useful.
This is the same problem we’ve encountered with Trump and “fake news“ and just the general distrust of all institutions. There are systems in place to prevent crazy behavior like this, but when you undermine them, they can’t do anything. So:
They say, “this is bad for you.”
I say, “it’s not.”
They say, “who says?”
I say, “[expert].”
They say “well they are in the pocket of [insert corrupt catchall group]” or some other excuse.
There is literally no way to get through to them. The only groups they trust are lying to them out the gate. And if any of them expresses regret later, it just means “they” got to them.