They don’t.
Yes, that is indeed what the website says.
Vaccines save your life. Therefore, without vaccines, there’s a good chance that you wouldn’t be alive long enough to be diagnosed with autism.
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And as we all know correlation and causation are the same, that’s what my statistics class I slept through said.
I like the site concept, but they really should fix the lone informational PDF link that directs to a “Not Found” error. Knowing anti-vaxxers, that broken link will be misunderstood to be proof that their anti-vax beliefs could not be refuted.
Easy: They don’t.
edit: I have been bamboozled
I know some people may hate Penn Jillette, but I really liked his take on it from his and Teller’s show, BULLSHIT. Basically, they said, let’s say it does, vaccines cause all cases of autism. It doesn’t matter. The cases of autism are far, far outnumbered by the people saved by vaccines. So even if it were true, it’s still a better outcome than an iron lung or death. They absolutely don’t, but if they did, it wouldn’t change the fact that we’re better off vaccinating than not.
the whole thing hinges on autism being terrible anyways, they might as well be saying that vaccines make you black for how much sense it makes.
Who gives a shit if something magically makes you autistic? Shitloads of people go their entire life without anyone realizing they’re autistic.
The whole idea that autism = bad isn’t necessarily right or that simple anyways. I find that being on the spectrum is honestly an advantage for the type of work I do.
it’s a sidegrade, the only part of it that’s bad is that modern societies are actively structured to disadvantage neurodivergent people.
Yes, exactly! Social theory of disability or whatever.
capitalist theory of “these people don’t fit into the schooling model we made to train people into good little wage slaves, therefore we hate them”
