Thank you for your thorough evaluation of this paper. I'm an autism researcher and am exhausted with trying to explain this. Furthermore every second we spend on vaccines is time not spent on environmental factors that are way more likely for causation.
I am afraid that under RFK jr and Trump administration, we will see more of this stuff. They will increase maximum pressure on science to produce confirmative results and turn it then against established science itself. This needs to be seen in the totalitarian approach by Project 2025.
The sad reality is people will not vaccinate their children.
Some children will suffer or die from the disease that was preventable by vaccination
The anti-vaxxers we claim this is an acceptable loss
Even as diagnoses of autism remains flat or increases
As a mother to an autistic son, this is so frustrating. I live in a poorer community that has real issues with education. When someone hears about my son, this is always the first thing I hear. I am blamed for being diligent in his health care and told I am a drain on their taxes. Fun right?
Please try to reappraise how you fight these people. If logic worked, there’d be no wars, hunger, climate change, disease or social exclusions for neurodiverse people.
Since the 19th century, political groups have used propaganda (lies) to appeal to people with grudges. Taking what they say as…
… the same type of rationale used to construct your own (most likely brilliant) work, is like trying to fight a wood chipper with a marshmallow!
It’s time to undermine them, not reason with them!
Thank you for your work!
An horrible example of why it is so important that laypeople do not interpret “studies” themselves. These serious errors would not be recognized by laypeople?!
I have a lot of crunchy RFK mom friends on Facebook sharing these things, I commented on some limitations and the fact that there was no section for “limitations of study”— I’m not even a scientist. My brain melts when I come across these anti vaxxers
I wonder why we also don't talk about how the ability to actually diagnose has improved also the understanding that the spectrum hold many different levels of how it affects daily life. I feel like many view autism as they did 20 to yrs ago and fail to accept many have high functioning autism.
I can feel the exhausted frustration of this article's author in the section titled "Final Thoughts." Indeed, how disheartening it must be to have, once again, to debunk flawed research that's been published only to spread misinformation, undermine real science, and usher in a post-truth world.
STILL with this nonsense. I know we probably will not ever get through to them but I am so tired of the fear mongering about being autistic. I know some of us in the autistic community have much higher support needs than others but it's nothing to fear and it's NOT FROM VACCINES. We can see clearly-
-2- what family members have passed which neurodivergencies down the lines to my generation and then to my kids' and niblings generation, so we get the whole mixed bag of auDHD. 🤷🏻♀️ There's much more fascinating studies out there about epigenetics, connecting genes for autism to neanderthal genes etc.
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Some children will suffer or die from the disease that was preventable by vaccination
The anti-vaxxers we claim this is an acceptable loss
Even as diagnoses of autism remains flat or increases
Since the 19th century, political groups have used propaganda (lies) to appeal to people with grudges. Taking what they say as…
It’s time to undermine them, not reason with them!
Thank you for your work!