• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    “We didn’t wait 20 years for Bobby to finally speak and then get served Tylenol as an answer,” anti-vaccine group Georgia Coalition for Vaccine Choice wrote in an unhinged Facebook post on Monday morning.

    Aww, poor babies! Did their deranged, unsubstantiated fantasies not pan our exactly as they wanted? Did a different unrelated product get associated with their delusional conspiracies instead? Are their feelings hurt now?

    Take a fucking ticket and get behind all the victims of real grievance… genocide, poverty, needles job loss, exploitation, climate change, terrorism, racial abuse, sexual assault and discrimination, gender identity abuse, untreatable mental illness due to no insurance, chronic medical conditions, and depression!

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      I would say these people are all fucking jokes and provide epic levels of comedy, but that quote: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” often comes to mind with this level of insanity.

      The people that follow the likes of Taco and Bobby Brainworm are fucking dangerous as a mob, and they are going to cause serious harm. At this point, depressingly, it seems the best outcome from this horrible clownshow is that they cause lots of death and misery indirectly (by introducing chaos into society when it comes to how and when to get vaccines, when it comes to defunding so very much research into diseases - right on the precipice of seeing huge breakthroughs due to things like AI, massive compute power thrown at protein folding, etc., these ignorant assholes come along and overturn the table because they are broken, incredibly vain people with very bad and stupid ideas and followers that are “doing their own research”).

      I’m worried they might take it upon themselves to take actions that will actively cause harm.

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    When the dumbest people in the room all disagree with each other because they believe different lies. These people deserve each other.

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      It’s like watching idiotic Young Earth Creationists arguing with Old Earth Creationists.

      They are both thoroughly full of shit, but each one thinks the other is ruining the brand and/or offending their god.

      In this case, I’m thinking there is lots of grifting money hanging in the balance. The “wellness movement” likes to cast aspersions on Big Pharma, but it’s not like they are doing what they do for the altruism. For the dipshit creationists, the grift might be selling a book or something to indoctrinate your (or someone else’s) children with.

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    If that’s all we hear - is that the end? Not thimerosal. Not aluminum. Not MMR. Not Hep B.

    Correct! It’s not caused by any of those things. Just like it’s not caused by:

    • “Refrigerator mothers”
    • Not enough hugs
    • Trauma during childbirth
    • Being raised in an orphanage
    • Sugar
    • Food dyes and preservatives
    • HFCS
    • Eating too much fast food
    • WiFi or 5G
    • Humors
    • Fluoridated water
    • “Chemtrails”
    • Living near power lines

    So on and so forth. Maybe—just maybe—there’s no universal cause and it’s just something that can happen.

    Can there be things that increase the likelihood of an autistic child forming in a mother’s womb? Surely! But that’s the kind of thing that relies on statistics. Ya know, that thing you obviously don’t trust because you never let go of the “vaccines cause autism” bullshit.

    I have no doubt that after many, many decades of research—and maybe with the help of some big data/AI—we can figure out what sorts of things actually increase the likelihood of autism. It’ll be probably something like: If you have these three genes and your partner has these other three genes then you should avoid eating venison while also consuming saccharine.

    Maybe we’ll get something better than that but if my experience with big data are any guide, the correlations are going to be wild and crazy like that… And they won’t really give you “an answer”, just places where a scientific investigation might be warranted.

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    I am pretty sure Tylenol causes more engrams mitochondrial challenges. I mean, right after someone takes Tylenol, I can see it in their faces. I’m pretty sure public spaces might concentrate the effects of the engrams, I mean, mitochondrial challenges.

    As a licensed scientism practitioner, I recommend that expecting mothers only take Tylenol when they have a properly fitted tinfoil hat and are wearing special copper rings on both wrists to help shield them from the subatomic particles that interact with and bind to the Tylenol in the mitochondria. Also, they should probably be giving themselves 5 coffee enemas a day, but the coffee must be civet coffee!

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      How does the headline at all implicate any people who understand anything? What I get from the headline is… a group that absolutely does not understand science is mad that RFKJ has ditched their flavor of anti-science for some newer (to me, anyway - had never heard this Tylenol stuff til this week) anti-science. I don’t see where people who understand the science even come up, in the headline anyway.

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        never heard this Tylenol stuff til this week

        You might know it as acetaminophen (though you’d probably also know Tylenol in that case) or paracetamol

        It’s all the same thing