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No vaccine has ever been pulled due to a risk of children developing autism. I literally don't know what else you could possibly want here.
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All of this data is already out there and was being analyzed by the right people to make vaccine safety decisions. The FDA can and has revoked authorization status for vaccines before when they've been shown to be ineffective or unsafe. We already have all the processes necessary to do this.
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Did you know that every single time someone is injured by a vaccine, even if it's because they are allergic to eggs and didn't know it and got an egg-based flu vaccine, it used to get reported to a public database? Guess who shot that down. Once again, one guess.
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Vaccines, like any other pharmaceutical product, are continually monitored both by the FDA and by organizations like The WHO, hospital networks, universities, and even private research organizations. I almost can't fathom the belief that these products are being used without any of these safeguards.
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The FDA literally used to run a vaccine safety group that was completely independent and got to publish their results without any intervention from drug companies or the rest of the fda. I will give you one guess at who cut that program.
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I don't know if you're not reading my replies or you just don't care, but LITERALLY ALL OF THAT HAPPENS ALREADY. We have had independent groups evaluating vaccine safety pretty much since the dawn of vaccines. The fact that you don't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
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Vaccine hesitancy kills people. And it kills people who are absolutely intelligent enough to make their own decisions, but who are being provided bunk data by grifters who want to sell them essential oils. I can't idly stand by and pet that happen.
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Look, I'm somewhere between a socialist and an anarchist at this point. I have absolutely no trust in institutions. However, it is incredibly important that we don't so doubt about the effectiveness and safety of vaccines. We know what the world looks like without vaccines. It's a lot of dead kids.
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Even if vaccines caused autism, which they don't, I absolutely would take that gamble with my kids. And it's good for public health that we all do, because if we don't get enough people vaxxed then we start getting endemic smallpox again. That will kill a LOT of kids. Like the good old days I guess?
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Let's say for the sake of argument that one in 1000 kids is harmed by the vaccines that they get as a kid. The alternative is them dying a horrible painful death to a preventable disease, likely at a much higher rate (1 in 100? 1 in 50?).
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There has never been any evidence to show that childhood vaccines cause harm to kids, in the 100+ years we've been regularly vaccinating children. On the other hand, we have 50,000 years of history showing us that kids that catch horrible diseases often die.
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The science has been done 1000 times over. All these vaccines are EXTENSIVELY trialled before they're put out on the market. It often takes 10-15 years of work to put out a new vaccine specifically because the risk of harm is so high.
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Also.... Of course they've been "fully studied and peer reviewed". What do you think a clinical trial is? Do you think that vaccine makers can just put a new product out on the market without testing it? There's a reason it takes 10 to 15 years to develop most new vaccines.
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No one is claiming that we have an Alzheimer's epidemic just because Alzheimer's rates have gone up. It's directly tied with an increase in life expectancy. More kids are getting autism diagnoses because the criteria is wider.
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All these things contribute to making the numbers look scarier, but the fact is that we are just better at diagnosing these things. It's like how Alzheimer's rates have gone up in the last 50 years because more people are living old enough that they present with the disease.
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In 1995, only the kids with very severe presentations would be given a diagnosis because we simply didn't have diagnostic criteria for anything other than the most severe cases. We had the diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome, but we know now that we used to call Asperger's is part of the spectrum.
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Hell, 30 years ago we even believed that autism in boys and girls were two separate diseases. People were literally diagnosed with male or female autism. Our understanding is just so different now than it was back then, and it's not because we've seen drastically more severe cases.
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It used to be that these kids were labeled "insane" and families had absolutely no resources to take care of them. We're learning so much about autism now that friend of mine whose daughter was originally diagnosed with autism 20 years ago has been rediagnosed with a TBI.
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I already mentioned this above, but our diagnostic criteria for these conditions (I refuse to call them diseases - I am not diseased because I'm autistic) have drastically changed in the last 30 years. That has a huge impact on how many kids get diagnoses, and that is a good thing.
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I believe that you're arguing in good faith here, but you have to understand that if there was something in vaccines that was causing autism, we would know about it. We would have already gotten rid of it. There isn't, wasn't, and never will be any causal link here.
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It cost me like 2 grand to get my diagnosis, and that cost is totally prohibitive to probably 70% of families out there. The lack of critical thinking in this administration is stunning, to the point where I think it must be intentional.
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I don't even have a degree in statistics and I can tell you where the geographic variations come from. They come exclusively from socioeconomic factors that cause people in certain zip codes (i.e. the wealthy ones) to be able to afford to get an autism diagnosis for their kids.
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But of course, RFK Jr and the Trump administration fired all the people doing that work. So I don't really know how you can look at this administration and think they're really taking vaccine safety seriously, because from my perspective it looks like they're doing the exact opposite.
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If there were any, and I mean any, link between vaccines and autism, the CDC would have told us it existed. The CDC and the FDA have regularly fined makers of vaccines for putting out unsafe or ineffective products. Vaccine safety was already a thing they were doing.
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Do you really think that the best public health organization in the entire world at least until RFK took it over would not have looked into this? The CDC has absolutely no vested interest in making hundreds of thousands of children autistic on purpose.
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They have been though, there have been dozens of studies, none of which even found a correlation, let alone a causational link. The science has been done, we need to put this to rest and move on.
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It is absolutely fine for a lay person to not understand statistics, but it is not fine for somebody making public policy to misrepresent the data in order to further an extremely dangerous and frankly completely ridiculous narrative that will cause people to harm their children accidentally.
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The cause of the "increase" in autism diagnosis over the last 30 years is 100% because we got a better understanding of the condition and were able to better diagnose it in a wider variety of people. I would not have been diagnosed as autistic 20 years ago, but I now meet the clinical criteria.
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The problem is that we absolutely for sure know that the 'research" that Andrew Wakefield did back in the '80s that started this whole panic was complete bunk. There was never any evidence that this was a problem, and questioning vaccine safety is an irresponsible response to a bad study.
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As an autistic adult, I much prefer autism to having died of measles.
Even if vaccines caused autism, which to be clear _they do not_, I would much rather have gotten the vaccine than not and died a horrible preventable death. Maybe try asking autistic people how they feel about this bullshit.
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It'd probably have to be a model like "either pay a couple bucks a month or write a couple reviews a month for access", but I feel like there's something here
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I've been thinking about this recently - a restaurant, etc. review site that weights peoples' recommendations based on their average score and normalizes everything so that an average restaurant gets a 3/5, and only exceptional places get 5/5's.
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It goes without saying but don't fucking do this, it's a scam
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I mean india has a bunch of racism too, but point taken
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1st, he must have had some sort of device to get the patent. 2nd, he wasn't the only one to work on and build a jet engine around that time. 3rd, even if you're right about this one case, you're still missing the point of the article which is that uni's are INCREDIBLY important for innovation.
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The wealthy will have a tax free if somewhat underperforming investment vehicle, the working class will have a stable predicable retirement, and market participation will become the standard for all, stabilizing and reinjecting reason into financial markets.
But that benefits the poor too much, etc
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At retirement the money comes out 100% tax free, and the government continues providing that 5k/yr til you die. Any remaining funds can be passed onto family.
How do you pay for this? Simple, uncap social security taxes, lower the tax rate so that the average American will pay less than they put in
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The account would only be allowed to buy high quality bonds and whole market mutual funds, and the government would pay private brokerages a hundred bucks a year to maintain these accounts. Every provider would be required to provide a "robo investor" option that targets 5% growth/yr.
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It'd be structured like this: at 18, a retirement account is opened in your name. It's strictly your money, and anything going into it will come out of it tax free. The government contributes, say 5 grand a year, no effort required on your part. You can then fund it up to maybe 30k/yr pre-tax
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Prove me wrong then. What authority do you have on this subject, and what evidence do you have that I'm wrong? Because the first patent for a jet engine in the UK was filed in 1930, granted in 1932, when Whittle was still at University.
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Frank Whittle developed the engine _while a cadet at RAF College_. Sit down.
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There are maybe a dozen people here. He's being buried the way he died, alone and without support.
Remember him when you vote for politicians who relish in punishment for immigrants and the poor.
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He also died of not having legal status. He feared being arrested at the hospital and his brothers getting arrested with him.
He died because of cruelty. And his family isn't here because they fear being in public and getting arrested by ICE.
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Hekki ALLMO blue to red
Mask and bunker shield our head
What a great f*cking video game.
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I don't think this is a complete sentence? And to be clear, the minimum wage isn't high enough _anywhere_. Realistically it should be at minimum 15-18 bucks an hour, likely with regional adjustments upwards into the mid-20s.
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That's a great plan in theory, but would you really trust Mississippi or Utah to actually set wages high enough to do that? We would then need the federal government to verify that wages are set appropriately, which basically gets us back to the same place