R.I.P. American children
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As an aside the folks that died from COVID increased social security by over $150 Billion. Sure a lot of people who believed in science died too but I've got to believe that the antivaxxers were over-represented in the death toll. |
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Insurance won't cover it. There is no risk if you are following guidelines. There is risk if you are not. The presumption is that the committees that make these recommendations are filled with doctors and scientists that know wtf they are talking about and aren't using astrology to make their decisions. |
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We need an asian president. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RCeS1SVFNo Andrew Yang doesn't sound too bad right about now, does he? His UBI doesn't sound as crazy today does it? I bet he believes in science. |
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Only about controlling women and fetuses for Republicans, not at all about saving kids lives. If some babies and pregnant women die, they don't care. |
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“Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - Marsh Family parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio" on RFK”
“And you know who’ll pay The folks whose shots are going As state by state, they’re claiming their right to infection share We’ll see measles and polio down by the school yard Flu and rubella down by the schoolyard Varicella down by the schoolyard” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiXrd-R68U So freaking sad!!!!! |
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This is well intentioned, but it is borderline disinformation in my opinion. You can say that vaccines don’t cause autism, and I’d agree with that. But you’re insinuating (1) that doctors keep up with the medical research—they mostly don’t, and lots of good research never gets done—and (2) that any hypothesized link between the immune system and autism is bunk. That proposition is wrong. As a few datapoints: • some emerging research suggests that autism can result where maternal autoantibodies attack proteins in the mom that are needed for fetal neural development (e.g., CRMP1 and CRMP2). • mice models of autism are sometimes approximated by taking genetically modified mice and activating the mother mouse’s immune system. • research suggests that people with autism have higher circulating levels of interleukine 6, a protein used in immune response. • even controlling for confounding variables like antibiotic administration, ear infections in infancy are associated with an elevated risk of autism later in life. One plausible connection is that infections obviously involve an immune response. • machine learning models have recently found patterns of altered species of bacteria, fungi, viruses, and archaea in the gut of people with autism. Gut composition influences immune response. Again, I agree that vaccines do not cause autism. But there is a public health danger in stigmatizing legitimate discourse around the relationship between immunology and autism. Keyboard warriors who think they’re quasi-scientists simply because they hate RFK and who paint with too broad a brushstroke risk creating a culture where researchers will conclude it’s simply too fraught to look into the relationship between autism and the immune system. |
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They went to government schools so you really can’t expect much. |