{"id":42712942,"user":"blindriver","time":1736958245,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

What is insane?","comments":[{"id":42713090,"user":"philistine","time":1736958703,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

His belief that vaccines cause autism.","comments":[{"id":42713271,"user":"blindriver","time":1736959338,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

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It's been throughly studied and debunked. Are you aware that there are countries other than the US where they have researched those claims?","comments":[{"id":42713594,"user":"blindriver","time":1736960420,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

Are you against the FDA releasing all the data from the pharmaceutical companies so that others can conduct their own studies from full data? Right now every single head of the HHS, FDA and CDC want to protect pharma companies and let them hide all their data. RFK Jr. is the first candidate that isn't looking for a job in industry afterwards and wants to actually free the data for the sake of the American people. For that alone I think he should be head of HHS.

As far as I've seen the only debunking has been done on single vaccines like MMR, not on the full schedule of vaccines. And it's a lie to say that they have been thoroughly debunked. Studies have shown that some vaccines can cause allergic reactions. Autistic children have over a 3X rate of food allergies or neurotypical children. Doesn't that warrant studying that maybe adjuvants are causing an immune response and the immune response causes autism?","comments":[{"id":42714071,"user":"error_logic","time":1736962256,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

My money is on the neurological development of autism involving some form of hyper-connectedness which also expresses itself in the gut in over-sensitivity, causing the allergies.

That, and perhaps the reason there are so many forms of autism is that the actual development of the brain is impacted so much by environment. If the children are given healthy, constructive environments to learn to interface with the world on their own terms, they'll have a better chance of benefiting others than if they're treated poorly and allowed to practice maladaptive patterns.

The covid vaccine nearly killed my father (which means covid itself probably would have) due to activating previously undiagnosed sarcoidosis, but subsequent vaccinations mediated by immunological awareness were safe and effective for him as with others.

Anyway, don't expect net positives out of RFK. He might be "independent" but you need many independent experts to reach a good understanding. Trump's administration isn't going to end corruption, it's just going to streamline it.","comments":[{"id":42714178,"user":"blindriver","time":1736962587,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

I respect your speculation and I think that by studying with the full data we can get closer to a real answer, rather than everyone throwing their hands up and saying "there's nothing we can do!"

If all we get from RFK Jr. is releasing of all the data that the FDA and CDC have, that is a win for society. Autism is a huge problem and no one is talking about it. The autistic kids from the 90s and 2000s are still being supported by their parents, but what's going to happen in another 20 years when their parents are dead? Will we have millions of autistic homeless people on the streets? It's going to be overwhelming and we need to fully study this. One in 34 kids in the US have autism, what are we going to do in 50-60 years?","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":5,"url":"item?id=42714178"}],"comments_count":1,"level":4,"url":"item?id=42714071"}],"comments_count":2,"level":3,"url":"item?id=42713594"}],"comments_count":3,"level":2,"url":"item?id=42713371"}],"comments_count":4,"level":1,"url":"item?id=42713271"}],"comments_count":5,"level":0,"url":"item?id=42713090"}],"comments_count":6,"url":"item?id=42712942"}

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