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View Poll Results: What causes autism?
Defective genes 17 23.94%
Environmental toxins 4 5.63%
Vaccines 3 4.23%
A combination of vaccines and genes 4 5.63%
A combination of environmental toxins and genes 18 25.35%
A combination of vaccines and environmental toxins 10 14.08%
Something else 15 21.13%
Voters: 71. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 03-09-2011, 11:29 AM
 
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Many anti-depressant corporations target women. Anti-depressants are known for having brain-damaging affects on a lot of users (most are women: women give birth to children): imagine what it does when they have children. It probably makes them autistic. This is why you always see herds of people who are on anti-depressants who look like autistic zombies. This is probably why so many children have autism. It's a totally new breed of human. This is just a hypothesis on what causes the increase of autism: this is based on observation not necessarily a fact.

 
Old 03-09-2011, 11:41 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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Many anti-depressant corporations target women. Anti-depressants are known for having brain-damaging affects on a lot of users (most are women: women give birth to children): imagine what it does when they have children. It probably makes them autistic. This is why you always see herds of people who are on anti-depressants who look like autistic zombies. This is probably why so many children have autism. It's a totally new breed of human. This is just a hypothesis on what causes the increase of autism: this is based on observation not necessarily a fact.
it still comes down to the GENES

the 'toxins' might trigger the genes....but its still the genes
 
Old 03-09-2011, 12:40 PM
 
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Default Genetics not defective.

If you look at the number of people on the Autistic spectrum that have really changed the world you would be surprised at the %.
 
Old 03-09-2011, 01:22 PM
 
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Let's review:

Most vaccines make a very tiny profit for the manufacturer.

Meanwhile vaccines opponents do the following:

Andrew Wakefield patented his own MMR vaccine and sells products that are essentially useless.

The Geiers promote lupron injections (injections of hormones that have not been proven to do anything at all but potentially castrate little boys) and all kinds of expensive therapies.

Jenny McCarthy sells books and endorses expensive items that will allegedly help autism.

Mercola's website is filled with all kinds of costly products with a very high profit margin.

Dozens of other anti-vax people promote items like homeopathy (distilled water), chelation therapy (expensive and dangerous), diet supplements and visits to specialists without medical credentials.

So in other words the very small profit that vaccine makers earn from selling a product that literally prevents diseases that are not only dangerous and often deadly but literally contagious is deeply offensive . . . but the huge profits that the anti-vaxxers earn from selling stuff that literally doesn't work is perfectly acceptable.

Yeah.
 
Old 03-09-2011, 02:04 PM
 
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Let's review:

Most vaccines make a very tiny profit for the manufacturer.

Meanwhile vaccines opponents do the following:

Andrew Wakefield patented his own MMR vaccine and sells products that are essentially useless.

The Geiers promote lupron injections (injections of hormones that have not been proven to do anything at all but potentially castrate little boys) and all kinds of expensive therapies.

Jenny McCarthy sells books and endorses expensive items that will allegedly help autism.

Mercola's website is filled with all kinds of costly products with a very high profit margin.

Dozens of other anti-vax people promote items like homeopathy (distilled water), chelation therapy (expensive and dangerous), diet supplements and visits to specialists without medical credentials.

So in other words the very small profit that vaccine makers earn from selling a product that literally prevents diseases that are not only dangerous and often deadly but literally contagious is deeply offensive . . . but the huge profits that the anti-vaxxers earn from selling stuff that literally doesn't work is perfectly acceptable.

Yeah.
VOLUME

The entire population - by mandate.

Small percentage, big volume, big profit.
 
Old 03-09-2011, 02:12 PM
 
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VOLUME

The entire population - by mandate.

Small percentage, big volume, big profit.
Vaccine makers would make a lot more money if we stopped vaccinating. They'd make much more money from treating diseases like measles, whooping cough and polio than from a one time shot.

All the paranoid assertions to the contrary won't change those facts.
 
Old 03-09-2011, 02:24 PM
 
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Vaccine makers would make a lot more money if we stopped vaccinating. They'd make much more money from treating diseases like measles, whooping cough and polio than from a one time shot.

All the paranoid assertions to the contrary won't change those facts.
Pharmaceutical companies aren't generally thought of as businesses offering products for the prevention of disease.

Quite the opposite, actually.

And, they earned this reputation.
 
Old 03-09-2011, 02:32 PM
 
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Pharmaceutical companies aren't generally thought of as businesses offering products for the prevention of disease.

Quite the opposite, actually.

And, they earned this reputation.
this thread is like a case study in the use of fallacies.

argumentum ad populum Argumentum ad populum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Old 03-09-2011, 02:34 PM
 
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What causes autism?

Watching Glen Beck.
 
Old 03-09-2011, 02:42 PM
 
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What causes autism?

Watching Glen Beck.
Works for me.
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