The american voters have really outdone themselves this time

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    WaPo strikes again with a plausibly deniable disinformation title, using the word “skeptic” wrong on purpose. I expect nothing less from Bezos.

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    Wouldn’t that involve them causing autism to prove it does?

    “I’m autistic because I was a test subject for a government op…”

    bruh…

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      Honestly there is an even darker side to this.

      There are parents who would rather see there kid die from a preventable disease than have Autism.

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      Plot twist: they scale up the study nationwide, offering free flu vaccines to anyone who “volunteers” for the study as long as they take an autism test before and after.

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    I never thought I’d have a gov that had a health dept that was determined to make me sick. I expect things to be occasionally suppressed, bias, and flawed studies but not a deliberate effort. It is like they put the Phillip Morris tobacco company in charge.

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    Next up, UFO conspiracists will determine if alien UFOs are real, Kennedy assassination conspiracists will review the Kennedy files.

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    I hope this is a situation like the documentaries made to prove flat earth that do the opposite

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      Yeah man I think it’s awesome we have to worry about diseases we basically eradicated again. It builds character

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    “You’ll never believe it, Mr Kennedy. According to our data, vaccines causes cancer”, he says, smiling. “Once we increased our vaccination rates, cancer became a major cause of death within 15 years. I suspect that far fewer people will die of cancer, if we simply roll our policies back

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      And more people will die of polio, measles, mumps, and other preventable diseases BEFORE they have the chance to die from cancer!

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      “Name one person that died of cancer who never received a vaccine for anything. That’s what I thought!”

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      And we also discovered everyone who drinks water, has died some point in their life. We must take all the water from the people and give them to corporations so they can protect us.

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    There’s no such thing as a “vaccine skeptic”.
    Skeptic implies that they could have their opinion swayed if presented with evidence. The fact that they’re still “skeptical” despite literal mountains of evidence shows that they only call themselves “skeptics” because it makes them sound reasonable, when in reality if they could have been swayed by reason they would have changed their minds a long time ago.

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      Any paper showing Vaccines don’t cause Autism is immediately disregarded as “propaganda from the far left”

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      they try to downplay anti-vaxxers, thats what they really are, this include vaccine hesitency.

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    They really should review dihydrogen monoxide which is continually pushed by doctors but has a 100% mortality rate! DO YOUR RESEARCH!

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      Goodness me. It’s so dangerous it eats away at untreated metal. How could they foist this dangerous mixture onto us. It’s worse than micro plastics. I heard estimates that claim it’s now found in every living American… and may even be now found in almost all of our food. Absolutely disgusting.

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      This is why RFK only drinks methylated paint thinner.

      Well that and he confused the methyl-part with methamphetamine.

      Don’t do meth. Or methyl alcohol. Both are awful.

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        methylene blue to be exact, he has been seen in a video, of him using a large dropper of methylene blue on a flight into his drink. he bought into the unsubstantiated reports of it being useful.

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            his worms control his bodily functions, it kill all competition from his body to his brain. the worms replaced the part of his brained that his heroin destroyed.

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      Nah, that’s just a red herring, and completely discredited. The real problem is hydrogen hydroxide. Everywhere that you see dihydrogen monoxide, there’s also hydrogen hydroxide. That’s the real danger.

      (/S for people that don’t know the different chemical names)

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    If the word “skeptic” in the title actually meant that, this would be a good thing. It’s good to be skeptic about everything until you’re shown evidence. The problem here is that those folks aren’t really skeptic.

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      People decide to believe something and then look for evidence

      Like or not that’s the human thing to do. Breaking out of that mindset is hard.

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      Yeah, he’s a liar, not a skeptic. He’s denying evidence, not demanding it.

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      Hard to accept a “skeptic” in a field with overwhelming evidence that he’s wrong. It means he either doesn’t or refuses to understand the current data which makes him just a dummy not a skeptic