Quote (Plaguefear @ 18 Feb 2021 02:26)
You call me an idiot but the autism anti vax shit originated before most millenials were born..
That autism vaccine thing came around in 1998, gen x were kids.. and the kids were not the ones up in arms about vaccines, it was their parents, what generation was that again? oh yeah.. boomers.
Talk about logical thinking some more..
Gen X was born between 1965 and 1980. Every Gen X was an adult by 1998. Millennials were born between 1981 and 1996. Literally every Millennial was born prior to the start of the autism craze, and many (such as myself) were well into high school. Once again, you do not know what you are talking about.
Since we're talking about Viruses, let's discuss Smallpox. In the 20th century alone, it killed over 300 Million people worldwide. It's lethality rate was approximately 33%. It was eradicated by immunizing [nearly] the entire population. You know who that population included? Every Boomer. Every member of the "Greatest Generation". If you think these people started the "autism" bullshit, you're either so ignorant it's not even funny, or just stupid. The average attitude among boomers regarding vaccines is, "Well, my brother/sister/cousin/uncle/neighbor died from smallpox. But thanks to vaccines, NOBODY has died from smallpox in 40 years. Vaccines are great!" Smallpox was literally declared eradicated in May of 1980.
The infamous MMR/Autism study was by one British idiot, who: "was found guilty of ethical, medical, and scientific misconduct in the publication of the autism paper. Additional studies showed that the data presented were fraudulent. The alleged autism-vaccine connection is, perhaps, the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years."
The scientific peer review process caught out that he cooked the books, actively LIED about his findings in an attempt to become famous, or get funding, or...? Who knows. Was he specifically a boomer? Sure. But the "autism craze" that caught fire in the media and later on social media was started sometime after 2005 by Jenny McCarthy, a Gen X MORON, who claimed her son got Autism from vaccines based on the completely debunked, derided, and completely fabricated study published by the British idiot. When she was told for the 20,000th time that, "This is not correct" and "Let us find out what's really wrong with him" they determined he was misdiagnosed in the first place, and had Landau–Kleffner syndrome. When treated for the proper syndrome, his symptoms went away, he [mostly] recovered (some neurological damage from his seizures was permanent), and all was well. But McCarthy had gained so much fame and prominence with her wildly stupid claims that she insisted the LKS diagnoses was actually wrong, he really did have Autism, and it was all because of vaccines.
I have NEVER met a single Boomer who buys into that horse shit. I've NEVER met a single member of the greatest generation who buys into that horse shit. They remember smallpox. They LIVED through it. McCarthy is a discredited hack, and if it weren't for her Playboy spreads, she wouldn't have ever been in the position to spread her anti-science garbage in the first place.
This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Feb 18 2021 05:10am