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    Okay, so does that mean vaccines for everyone?

    I mean, I can get behind giving everyone this false belief if it means they’d go out and get their families vaccinated. I’m not above weaponizing their stupidity to save their lives.

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    How far are we along with “autism is a genetic defect and we are now euthanizing defective humans for the benefit of society” are we?

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    So something so ludicrously common that it basically can’t be proved. Super.

    Did you know that 97% of people killed in car accidents clean their teeth on a regular basis? I think we need to look into that.

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        Oddly I don’t think that can be a full 100% due to infant death during or shortly after birth.

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            The host is a great description, going to have to start using that… well maybe not.

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              The way it lands would probably depend on context, including who the speaker is. Having a uterus and calling yourself a “potential host” is vastly different from someone else, for example RFK Jr, using the term to refer to others. One is a deliberate subversion of the expectation that anyone with a uterus is supposed to be pro “having babies.” The other can be straight-up dehumanization (depending on how it’s used.)

              Being on the internet, where the sex and gender of a speaker aren’t always obvious, you’re probably making a wise choice by avoiding the term.

              With all that said, as a uterus-haver, I still laughed when I read it. So… ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

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                I for some reason though of it being used in the worst video dating reel. Think “lowered expectations” but with some modern “trad wife” wanting asshat.

                “Looking for an available female for the purpose of becoming the host of my son”

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      100% of people exposed to dihydrogen monoxide eventually die, and sometimes develop an array of diseases and disorders before their inevitable death.

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      Personally I’m expecting him to get shot, not even necessarily for being a shitstain but because he is a Kennedy. If some dumbass can try to kill Reagan to impress Jane Fonda(?) for some reason then someone will want to kill RFK Jr for the meme.

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      Because the anti-vax people who have autistic kids hate their children. They hate that they’re not perfect and “normal”. And they hate that they have to deal with a child that requires more care than other people’s children do.

      I think we should make banners and say it out loud to every single person who can hear.

      #Anti-vaxxers HATE autistic children

      #Especially if that autistic child is their own.

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        I’ve never thought about it like that but it makes so much sense. The hate in the heart of these people runs incredibly deep, I know because my own family has disowned me because I refused to “take the red pill”.

        I am a leader in a youth organization and we have a few autistic kids in our group. They are wonderful kids, and their parents are just amazing with their patience and love for all the kids. I can’t imagine the difficulties they face, but I’m so truly blessed and happy to have these kids in my and my children’s lives. I’ve worked with special needs kids a few times, and the pure joy they are capable of is something that sticks with you.

        But I’ve also known a few less involved and less interested parents who denied and refused care for their kids who clearly need help. I can’t say I know the political persuasion of any of these folks, but I’m pretty good at inference…

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          No, he’s just an old narcissistic psychopath who is bitter because he’s never had the respect that his father and uncles had, from the public, or even his own family, who hate him.

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      Because they can’t cope with random chance, there has to be a cause. They need a villain.

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          Hardships are a test from god unless that hardship can also speak or act counter to societal norms!

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          Why blaming gods for random bullshit is easier on the mind? Random bird take a massive shit on my cars hood? Clearly Odin needs to reign in his ravens.

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            You get brought up with prosperity gospel and you think that wealth and good fortune are an indicator of holiness and piety. You internalize that shit. And since you worship what you have been told all your life is a loving god, since you do all the things your church tells you to, since you give them 10+% of your income and hate the minorities they tell you to and vote for the fascists they tell you to, you know yourself to be pious.

            Understanding that we live in a random universe with no sense of justice is fundamentally incompatible with a belief in an orderly universe governed by a just god. So when you encounter misfortune, you don’t blame God, since you see Him as infallible and perfect. You either blame yourself or start looking for someone to blame.

            Which is very useful to people seeking to manipulate hateful credulous people who are convinced of their own righteousness.

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        Is that as those who are punished, in religion, deserve it? However children are innocent and usually autism is diagnosed in young people or children. So, they don’t ‘deserve’ it? If it’s just random, maybe other things are too and the preachers are making stuff up?

        It’s a long train of thought to get there. I’d say it’s more just susceptibility to conspiratorial thinking, but who knows.

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    I’m confused where this zeitgeist about Tylenol being bad for you is coming from. I remember working in pharmacy that taking Acetaminophen was the least reactive painkiller with the least number of long-term issues, but I’m hearing a lot more people talking about how bad it is for you.

    The studies I’ve seen have been correlative at best, and, considering that NSAIDs and opioid painkillers are far worse over time, I don’t understand the dissonance in advice that seems to be appearing.

    Is this more “seed oil” nonsense?

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      I don’t follow this topic regularly and I can’t say anything about the mechanisms. From a superficial search I would claim that there is good evidence that Tylenol use during pregnancy can make the development of asthma in the child more likely. There is also some indication (at least one large cohort study from Icahn medical school) that it may cause delayed language development.

      That would be enough evidence for me to discourage use during pregnancy for treatment of discomfort or light pain, when safer options can be tried.

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        My point is that comparatively, acetaminophen is (or at least was) the safest drug for light pain.

        I haven’t seen any new categories of painkiller that would indicate that’s no longer the case, though.

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      A lot of common over the counter drugs like Tylenol are more risky than people assume, so the idea of one having negative effects on fetal development isn’t out of left field. At the same time, not a single study pushed by this anti science ideologue can ever be trusted without corroboration by independent researchers. The risk of having a bad reaction to common medication nobody bats an eye at is often higher than the vaccines this dumbass rails against, so it’s not like a stopped clock being almost right makes up for his bullshit.

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        so it’s not like a stopped clock being almost right makes up for his bullshit.

        Nice try, Jessica

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      It’s pretty easy to overdose on Acetaminophen, Wikipedia suggests >100k a year in the us (it’s in so many OTC medication, stuff like cough syrups and the like, really easy to hit the 4g/day max dose)

      I’ll still use it, just use it responsibly.

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        It’s not even a good pain reliever.

        I don’t know why it’s so popular.

        Ibuprofen/Motrin/Paracetamol works about 100x better.

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        I thought they put acetaminophen with other drugs to keep from overdosing because it will cause pain if you take to much.

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          I hope not, it’s apparently pretty awful. You were up to fairly recently able to get Acetaminophen w/ caffeine and codeine (8mg) over the counter in Canada, found an article about a decade ago that mentions liver injury in people, definitely recall reading articles about bans on the sale because of the injury risk.

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            Yeah I have been looking it up and it seems quite the opposite. aspirin and ibuprofen will irrate the stomach enough to make it hard to take to much but acetaminophen seems not to. Now I have no idea why they put acetaminophen with other meds. Its kinda funny because both my wife and I find acetaminophen to not really do much and prefer muscle relaxants. We also find opiods to not work all that well (like when its so bad from the surgery you can’t function they seem to be able to bring you to functional but to me don’t really get rid of the pain just sorta tamps it down) but the nerve ones like gapapentin were like. wow.

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        To add to this I’ve heard professionals in my field say if acetaminophen was discovered today it would likely be a controlled substance for this reason alone. The overdose potential is too high. That always seemed like an extreme measure but i can understand it.

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          It’s more tightly controlled outside the US, in my experience. I think other heath agencies are quite aware of its risks

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    Wow, autism turns out to be not only bad but also women’s fault. Amazing what an investigation under the impartial leadership of misogynist neo-Nazis can discover.