Dear America: It is long past “do your own research” time when it comes to life saving vaccines. Don’t be skeptical of the science because of something you saw on YouTube.
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The rage and hatred I feel everytime they "question the science" is unreal. Largely because they clearly NEVER READ THE SCIENCE. These idiots are reviving nearly 30 year old, DEBUNKED, claims of vaccines causing autism. DEBUNKED because the STUDY was fake.
The problem is the “do your own research” crowd has NO idea how to research. They read something from Holistic Hippie proud mama of 3 and take that as the end all be all.
Yeah. Let's put a whale head transporting, bear carcass hiding, alleged brain worm having, admitted heroin user in charge of health. That'll go well. We are to the point where I say "resist". RFK gets in and bosses u around? Ignore it. Can't fire everyone.
I feel like people who are skeptical of science should be scientists and researchers. Otherwise, we’d stop learning as a whole. Science would stay the same and be boring and then no one would do science.
I agree (if I understand you right) I think most kids probably have the good sense not to learn how to use the toilet from rfk though. doing your own research is how we learn. Their just a lot off misinformation online that many don’t seem equipped to handle which is not quite the same issue.
I hope they have the sense to think for themselves. But looking critically at an answer that doesn’t ring true to oneself is fine. The problem comes when we try to apply those truths we’ve found universally upon others with no consideration for their own experience. Anyway, thank you for talking 🙏
We actually know what the research has been, along with the conclusions of the scientific community. But guess we need to give equal weight to the opinion of the guy with a brain worm.
I have written on here about my older cousin that had polio. The science has proven itself for over 60 years. My generation still has the scar that saved our lives.
Most people are not scientists so we accept that those who worked hard for years to understand these things actually know what they’re talking about. Do we trust them blindly? No. We do what we can to educate ourselves and make intelligent decisions.
It’s absolutely hilarious and tragic to me that the guy who made the original vaccines cause autism paper to sell his alternative health products ended up creating a behemoth science denialism movement
Vaccines, especially MERCK's COVID vaccines, are allegedly a "crime ring" involving the evil federal government and "big pharma".
These same morons can't explain how that same MERCK, one of the largest worldwide pharmacorps on the planet and the maker of IVERMECTIN is somehow NOT "big pharma".
Having met antvaxers, and had conversations with them. They may have to learn the hard way that science matters. That means one of their loved ones will have to die, before they understand.
Life can be a hard reality, but a great teacher.
Unfortunately, the more psychopathic ones will celebrate the death of their "loved ones", as they see vaccine preventable diseases as a "cleansing force".
It’s a good time to remind everyone that we have Oprah to thank for being the catalyst to the anti-vax movement when she gave Jennie McCarthy air time.
McConnell is a polio survivor and not at all happy. Reportedly chump gave him a nod last night and said, "No one's going to take your vaccines. That's not going to happen."
He wants the research and transparency. How about Polio being eradicated, measles, mumps etc... Information is not hidden from anyone. 70 years of these vaccines is your longitudinal study with millions and millions of participants. Can he at least pretend to have really looked into this.
'longytitiudinal' what is that bigly word? 99.99% of the people complaining could not read and understand the first para of a published paper, which was not meant for those who are 'unedumidccated'.
The Salk vaccine became available when I was 6 months old. Fortunately, my parents were well-educated and believed in science. The little boy who lived next door, my age, had polio, and was confined to a wheelchair until his death at a very young age.
It's fine to question science, great in fact. It's a part of what makes science science. Just you question it with other science, not some rando on the internet spouting FUD.
Show me a published, repeatable, peer reviewed study and we'll talk about "questioning the science"
A little transparency from Rick Scott would have been helpful when his hospital company was over billing Medicare by Billions of Dollars. Fuggin Lying Hypocrite.
Ask every damn one of them if they would take a vaccine antidote if one became available. It’s obviously a hypothetical, but would be revealing how stupid or cynical they are.
The beauty of science is there is already transparency. Decades of research, replicated, tested, and proven. RFK doesn't care about that, he'll never read a word of it. The new playbook is just make unfounded claims and stick to them.
There is a difference between scientists that spend decades getting their credentials and politicians trying to get power and votes. Scientists are to be respected, politicians are to be suspected. Don't get the two mixed up
These miscreants are such buffoons. Americans don't understand how to navigate a 4-way intersection when the traffic lights are out, and the nation-wide average grade in chemistry is a 75. But sure, they're going to "do the research."
When enough people refuse vaccines, we will lose herd immunity and will start seeing breakthrough infections. This will not just affect refusers; some vaccinated people will also get infected because no vaccine is 💯 effective.
The only "research" these dumb assessment care about was the guy who said they cause autism. Whenever other, actually reputable scientist, could not replicate. The nazi party if America has to fucking go
George, please also encourage people to talk to those of us old enough to remember polio victims. I knew someone who spent her entire life flat on her back in an iron lung. She never went out to dinner or for a walk; never had sex or a baby; caught flu and died alone, choked by her own vomit.
I was blown away by how many of my friends started "doing their own research" the last 5 years. I'm amazed how many of the must be resourced and educated to run clinical trials
It's these kind of things that Dems need to show Americans that they have things under control and that some worm brain knows nothing about vaccines. Get mean!
Im not an expert. However, for credible information, I found - & recommend - the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark, that specializes in various diseases, & has conducted studies for decades. Also, find and talk to someone who has contracted polio or mumps or measles. Experience is best teacher.
And always remember, the guy who kicked off the whole 'vaccines cause autism' thing is no longer a doctor, cos he was struck off. For falsifying the evidence that vaccines cause autism.
Questioning science is how we learn and find new scientific discoveries—but this only works for people who are willing to look at the actual evidence and understand it from all angles. Based on real evidence, vaccines are amazing and I’m so grateful to have had all of mine.
Next four years will sew so much disinformation by Maga Republicans that the inoculation rate will subside substantially and USA will become a vector of deadly pathogens!!! Ergo MAGA reduction in their population numbers. Dems will inoculate their beloved children and they shall live!
They are going to create confusion and concerns and then they will pull the federal funding for some of these childhood vaccines. Vaccination rates will plummet because the vaccines will become unaffordable for the average working class parent, and insurers won't pay.
Under Trump not only will America become Isolationist but it will practically quarantine itself. If vaccines are rescinded then other nations will rapidly become tired of tourists turning up with diseases the rest of the world has under control and will institute harsher travel rules on US citizens
the vaxxes are completely 'transparent', but the GQP hates anything trans.
one can look up all the studies, review all the data, (like the peer reviewers have done for decades), it's all published.
but to reject science takes brain worms and a dedicated willful ignorance.
It is only the dumbest of people who refuse to admit that they simply can't understand the enormous mountain of evidence in favor of one of humanities greatest inventions. 10,000 years ago this kind of person didn't believe in wheels, imagine where we'd be if we had listened to them then.
Our political spectrum is no longer a difference of opinion, it is quite literally a matter of life and death. Because people voted for Donald Trump many people will die.
STOP protecting stupid people from themselves. We are right now living with the results. If they want to believe what they see on YouTube or Faux News or other MSM, let them. We have silenced Darwinism long enough. Let it roar.
Do my own research? I have a BA in English with no lab experience. I have no training in statistical analysis. It would be a waste of scientific resources just to confirm that any research proposal I could create would be worthless.
As much as these people discredit doing your own research. If you did do your own research it would likely be a lot more informed than watching some conspiracy nonsense and much more aware of your limitations and the scientific consensus. What they do just isn’t the same kind of research.
My point was that I simply lack the relevant expertise to do research in vaccines. I've no background in virology or public health, or anything like that. I've read scientific papers, but only for questions of language use.* I can't evaluate the data.
My grandmother was born in 1910. She contracted smallpox in 1920, when she was a ten year old girl. Her mother, my great-grandmother, didn't approve of vaccines on religious grounds. Nana made sure all her children and grandchildren got their shots.
I question the same people who get offended by children's books having the mental ability to actually read & understand the medical research that goes into vaccinations.
These are the same people who smiled & nodded to bleach & ivermectin after all.
One of the populism things, create doubt in established fact, let people create their conspiracies, then ride that wave to garner the peoples' favour and get into power based upon lies and bullshit, the future's looking pretty dark when fact is treated with suspicion...
Ethel made sure that Bobby Jr. had all of his vaccines.
And his ex-wives made sure that all of his kids had theirs.
But he wants you and your kids to die.
My vaccinated friends either didn't get sick, (like me), or they got sick, and recovered. All of my unvaccinated friends got sick and died. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0tRGNG0Z8I
“Do your own research” REQUIRES understanding all sides. Red Hats only look at the silly, easy-to-read brain rot. Brain rot’s fun—when you appreciate what it is. When people apply sincerity to it, it becomes dangerous, encouraging an otherwise waste of a perfectly good human being.
Do your own research.
Publish your own papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Address weak points and open questions in your own future work.
Contribute to your own field.
Build your own career based on carefully acquired information and analysis using rationality and the scientific method.
The guy who’s life has been riddled by abusing substances and had a worm eat half of his brain with no training in the sciences is going to question… science. Very promising!
It is a cartoon drawn by someone 🤷♀️ though I do not know who the artist is…otherwise, depending where my reply is showing up and being fed to you, I suppose you’d have to ask BlueSky.
Let's assume that about .01% of these idiots are educated in the discipline, to comprehend the method section in a scientific paper on vaccines. Do they even know that many papers are not available to the general public?
Scientists already publish their research, they submit their data to the FDA. What more transparency does he need? He doesn't know sick about vaccines and just makes shit up about them.
They all don't believe in science. They think God is going to protect them. They push that on others and that's how it all starts. Don't believe what you read on Facebook cuz Fuckerberg doesn't give a shit about misinformation. He does like to donate to Trump tho.
The only answer to this is easy, George. Where is Mitch Mc Connell? For once in his miserable life, he is the star witness and when pressed, will say so.
Apologies to RFK, JFK and the entire Kennedy family. Junior has been anything but a disgrace #vaccinessavelives
These anti-vaxxers are already convinced vaccines are bad, so no matter how many trials, it's not good enough. It's like the creationists. No matter how many fossils are found of pre-human ancestors, they just deny it and claim there's a missing link.
they can find all this vaccine research info online. how bout we develop a vaccine that will keep worms from crawling into your brains, eat your brains and die from starvation cuz there wasn't much there.......maybe this sentence went on for too long? but..that just means ain't no worms visited here
People die when they don't get vaccines. Science yes. History absolutely. Look at what vaccines have done when we all got them in school... Polio gone... I still get vaccines when my Dr. recommends it & I haven't been sick for over a decade... not even a cold.
I wonder how much of this skepticism is tied to snarky science stories. I used to listen to a podcast that would decry the antivaxxers and antimaskers... while also regularly sharing seemingly silly scientific studies. "Woah, glad cancer's been cured!" But... you can't have one without the other!
Seems the system is not providing enough basic education for people to do their own research and critical reading.
Too much emphasis on banning books and not getting shot in school and not enough basic science and critical reading.
The data are available on https://fda.gov and company websites and published in medical journals-but readers need to understand the science (and how to develop drugs) to form an opinion…..
You mean like All the stuff that’s always been available to anyone that asks and certainly to those actual medical professionals who are qualified to give advice?
How do any of these cultists manage to stand after having their spines removed?
On the basis of what ?? He’s not a doctor. He’s not an immunologist, he’s not a scientist .. and you want HIM making health care decisions for the American public ! That’s insane !
Can you imagine how far down the "dumbing down" scale the researchers are gonna have to slide their report for magats to understand it? "little baddies bad, use special machine turn off bad. It make baddies not bad. Body see not baddies and go "oh! them what baddies look like! me ready now!".
Transparency? Feel free to download all the scientific, peer-reviewed articles on vaccines you wish. There are thousands I am sure, all leading to proven effectiveness of various vaccines
They should all be asked if they vaccinated their kids against polio, mumps, whooping cough etc. or if they refused because they were concerned about the “lack of transparency” for vaccines around for more than 70 years.
Or do your own research. Coronavirus is simple. Goes in, binds to cell, solubilizes the cell.cover ro get in. This forms synctia.
Antibody neutralizes it
Like "that which remains". Vaccines stimulate anti body
Not long ago we celebrated the 228th anniversary of Edward Jenner's first smallpox vaccination in 1796 which led to the global eradication of smallpox in the 1970s. I still have the scar on my arm.
Transparency? We already have medical science journals that provide reports, tests, and various experiments on vaccines. What more does he want? A dude on Twitter writing, "I reviewed the Polio vaccine on behalf of RFK Jr and find it to be faulty. My source on this is me and was verified by me."
George, I appreciate the heads up, but in the words of Napoleon Bonaparte, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Vaccines are bad, mmkay? Wink wink.
People will fall for anything that is easy for them to believe or better fits their world view.
Science is hard so they refuse to understand it.
Willful ignorance.
Science saves lives. Vaccines are backed by decades of rigorous research and evidence, not conspiracy theories or misinformation. Questioning science without understanding it only endangers us all. Trust the experts, not YouTube videos.
No, be skeptical of science because that's what good scientists do. And as for doing your own research on vaccines, do you know how many forms you would have to fill in to conduct human trails?
One of the essential characteristics of science is that it is always questioning itself. It never considers itself finished. And in recent years, the methodologies for doing this have improved, expanded, and refined.
When someone says "we have to question science," they are probably looking at it from an ideological perspective rather than a truly scientific perspective.
That's typically what "do your own research" means. It's not about actually caring for academia or wanting a more informed population, but rather a desire to force reality to fit your confirmation bias.
Yeah. Because *scientists* are who we need to keep an eye on and whose motives we have reason to doubt. Instead of the insane billionaires and sexual assailants in the felon's inner circle.
Autism has ALWAYS been with us as part of the human condition. It's only now that we have become good at diagnosing it.
Up to recent times many Autistic kids were just labeled "slow" or "r*t*rd*d and put away because people didn't know what they were looking at.
Vaccines did not cause that.
Everyone please call Gerry Connelly! Phone: (202) 225-1492. Tell him to give AOC the chair to the committee. Tell him we won't win . He needs to step down. Media plays a big part. He doesn't understand social media .call.share..
Can we please stop pretending *any* of this is normal? We can *not* have an anti-vaxxer in charge of Health and Human Services, any more than we can have a neo-nazi for Secretary of Defense. This is blatantly the Bannon tactic of flooding the zone with crap.
If you search "iron lung" and look at the images, only a complete moron would think going back to that is a step forward. It's fear mongering by people that own the treatments and don't want a cure. Anti-vax is a real conspiracy, but not the way they think it is.
My adult son was sick for 3 weeks with pneumonia in October. I'm >70 yrs old, so I got the pneumonia vaccine years ago. I didn't get sick, despite taking care of my very sick son. With my health history, I probably would have died from pneumonia. VACCINES SAVE LIVES!
If he was vaxed only as a child, his protection is now weak or none. He's protected by herd immunity which exists because enough people are vaxed, especially kids who are a breeding ground for infections.
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3136032/
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These same morons can't explain how that same MERCK, one of the largest worldwide pharmacorps on the planet and the maker of IVERMECTIN is somehow NOT "big pharma".
"Vaccines:
* Are not needed
* Don't do anything
* Are dangerous
* Are untested
* Only there to make money
* Are a government conspiracy"
It is all bulshit.
Vaccines are all tested, effective, and safe.
Life can be a hard reality, but a great teacher.
Andrew -struck from the medical register- Wakefield
Lied about the links to autism in an effort to discredit the MMR vaccine and push one he had been developing himself
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
I don't get how some seem to think it is some big secret.
Tonsillectomies have a ~1/20,000 death rate and it is a super common procedure. Do they go on about that?
Science doesn't end in a lab.
That would just be a loss of money, lives, and trust if these things weren't researched and tested for public consumption.
Show me a published, repeatable, peer reviewed study and we'll talk about "questioning the science"
"I haven't studied medicine or become a doctor, but I did read my Aunt Susie's FB post about how vaccines aren't safe." Please shut up.
When enough people refuse vaccines, we will lose herd immunity and will start seeing breakthrough infections. This will not just affect refusers; some vaccinated people will also get infected because no vaccine is 💯 effective.
Never forget- Your Body, Your Choice!
Get the Facts, Be Informed.
You've never seen someone die of a curable horrible disease. It's not like the movies. It will break you
There is a reason so few of your grandparents childhood friends became their adult friends
Your inability to understand it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist or that it's being hidden.
one can look up all the studies, review all the data, (like the peer reviewers have done for decades), it's all published.
but to reject science takes brain worms and a dedicated willful ignorance.
(*Okay, once for historical detail.)
Never go back.
https://youtu.be/_WwZFsddLdE
These are the same people who smiled & nodded to bleach & ivermectin after all.
He's just a trump tool
He will do as he is told
And his ex-wives made sure that all of his kids had theirs.
But he wants you and your kids to die.
Best to read and understand it first though.
Publish your own papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Address weak points and open questions in your own future work.
Contribute to your own field.
Build your own career based on carefully acquired information and analysis using rationality and the scientific method.
Covid
Flu
Polio
Hep A and B
Shingles
Monkey Pox
MMR
As of yesterday I'm all done
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Apologies to RFK, JFK and the entire Kennedy family. Junior has been anything but a disgrace #vaccinessavelives
Too much emphasis on banning books and not getting shot in school and not enough basic science and critical reading.
UTHERWIZE ITZ LIKE TRYIN TO SHUV A MARSHMELLO INTO A COYN SLOT! ITZ NOT IMPOSSIBUL - BUT...
How do any of these cultists manage to stand after having their spines removed?
Antibody neutralizes it
Like "that which remains". Vaccines stimulate anti body
A rightful destiny for the fatuous, egregious opportunist rfkJR.
Brief infamy for insisting thousands of children die to satisfy his egoistic views.
Thereafter.. oblivion.
Science is hard so they refuse to understand it.
Willful ignorance.
Up to recent times many Autistic kids were just labeled "slow" or "r*t*rd*d and put away because people didn't know what they were looking at.
Vaccines did not cause that.
Now he wants to break herd immunity.