Anti-Vaxxer Tries To Frighten Others With ‘Scary’ Components, Gets Owned With Facts
Despite being debunked numerous times, anti-vaxxer conspiracies continue to spread. This time, one of them shared a picture on Tumblr, showing the contents of an influenza shot. Using their super ultra mega cognitive skills, they highlighted a couple of “dangerous” words, saying: “Do not give or get any vaccinations for yourself or your kids.” To make the claim even more persuasive, they used caps lock. However, one person responded to the individual with arguments that were bigger than their capital letters.
Probably the most favorite claim of anti-vaxxers evrywhere says that immunizations ‘cause’ autism. It’s also wrong. These rumors spread after a paper was published in 1998, allegedly linking the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine to autism. However, the researchers and their conclusions were utterly discredited.
Medical News Today emphasizes that vaccines do not cause autism, and refers to a very recent “large-scale” Danish study. In particular, the study looked at possible links between the MMR vaccine and autism in “at-risk individuals.” Scientists had access to data on 657,461 children, of which 6,517 were diagnosed with autism within 10 years. Researchers then “compared autism rates in children who had received the MMR vaccination and compared them against children who had not had the jab.” There was no increased threat of getting autism when vaccination. No surprises there.
The anti-vaxxers movement is a dangerous, health risk causing trend. Luckily, the battle against them is no longer limited to the internet. The state of New York, for example, banned unvaccinated children from going to public schools.
This extensive response did have a couple of small factual mistakes. The argument was still valid, though
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The comment "it's bold of them to assume his person knows what a molecule is" made me snort laugh so loud I scared my cat.
Poor Kitty, another (admittedly indirect) victim of anti-vaxxers.
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Good explanation. I'm OK with the oxygen, hydrogen, sodium, even mercury.... but I'm a little concerned about the "surfer" content the respondent mentions. All the surfers I know are smelly beach bums and would not allow any of them into my body for fear for STDs or general grossness.
However often this is repeated, idiots spreading b******t on social media needs to be countered. It might not convince them, but it may stop others for taking their odd ideas as facts.
Anti-vaxxers are dangerous, they are causing more deaths than the worst terrorists that are called "terrorists", but maybe that is the correct epithet; maybe we really should call them Anti-vaxxer Terrorists. Read the following, and then think about the Real World Results of what the Anti-vaxxer Terrorists are posting on-line. (Even extremely bad ideas do spread) "More than 800,000 children are to be targeted for vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a measles outbreak killed more than 3,500 people this year. It has killed more Congolese people this year than Ebola." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49836280
You're a f**king moron! You do realise that MOST people who are against the Covid Vaccination ARE NOT anti vaxxers right? Just anti Covid shot.
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It's like Carlin said, never underestimate stupid people in large groups
Somewhere I read : the IQ of a mob is - the lowest IQ there divided by the number of people.
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Warning: don't need anything from the nightshade family! Everyone knows that night shades are highly toxic! Wake up, Sheeple! Don't eat tomatoes, or potatoes, or egg plants! Or bell peppers!!!* [*This statement has absolutely NOT been certified by a medical professional. This opinion is based on idiocy, and assumption by loose association. Please do not take the unenlightened opinions of uneducated morons over the informed instruction of licensed and trained professionals.]
Except for one thing, all the people who made the Vaccine except Fauci, have now spoken out against the Covid shot.
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Here's my general response to anti-vaxxers: To all the anti-vaxxers out there: The debate is over. It's a matter of trust. Do you trust 300+ years of established science or a fifth-rate actress who epitomizes the old maxim of better seen than heard? I will always trust the former.
LOL the Covid Vaccination is only recent for starters. Do you really think that all the people who are against the Covid Vaccination are full anti vaxxers??? You're a dead set moron if you think they are!!!
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Yet another anti-vaxxer proving they can't pass high school chemistry. Or maths. Or, well, y'know... school....
The terrifying thing is they maybe home " schooling" their kids.
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We put flammable or explosive chemicals in our bodies everyday without batting an eye ...
My husband consumed actual mercury as a child. The fluid metal kind. Because he was an idiot. He's also my husband and very much alive (don't tell our antivaxx friends that it just doesn't get absorbed very well and just leaves the body through the other end, that's not helping my story). Mercury doesn't kill people. People that don't vaccinate kill people. Also. Thanks to the influenza vaccination that was very on point yesteryear my mom got to live for that year. And my son would not be alive without those vaccines. So to all antivaxxies: stay the f*ck away from my family and let us enjoy our mercury in peace.
Yeh it used to be used as a laxative (?) Very low vapour pressure, goes in as a liquid metal and virtually none is absorbed. Organomercury is absorbed well but only what is there
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This won’t stop believers. Just like arguments against the belief in gods won’t stop believers. This is the same exact human behavior as that which causes religion: the desire to believe. They WANT to believe. You can’t stop their want with facts.
You never will make the truthers to change their mind, but you can prevent of others being sucked up into this idiocy by letting them know that there is a simple explanation. So there is a benefit of always arguing against stupid people like anti-vaxxers, flatearthers or chemtrailers.
Load More Replies... I wonder if any of these anti-vaxxers eat sushi or other raw fish? Any mercury in that?
Fish, period. Cooking does not remove the mercury, it kills germs and parasites.
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Ummm sorry, but don't you all think it's kind of Sus that all the people who made the vaccine except for Fauci have spoken out against it??? WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! By the way, I am very pro vaccinations, I am ONLY against this one!! Personally I'm not a fan of the Flu Vaccine either, and I have never gotten it. I have known way, WAY too many people who have actually gotten the flu straight after getting it. I'm not opposed to other people getting it though. Whether you choose to get the Covid Vaccination or the Flu Vaccination is totally up to you, just don't force it on others!!! You know, funny story, last weekend my mother and stepfather came down with Covid and we're extremely sick and bedridden and they have BOTH had the vaccination. I didn't get it and only realised after speaking to my mother that the weird incidences that were occurring to me, was due to the fact that I had Covid, and I was 100% fine and didn't feel sick WHATSOEVER!!! All I had was a weird dream thing, cold during the night, and sweating, that's all.
Read the inserts for the vaccines before you get them. Look to see if you are allergic to any of the ingredients. This is common sense, which today is not common.
Anti-vaxxers are dangerous and unfortunately they are not stopping anytime soon. You could have a board certified doctor talk to them all day and they would think he was lying. It is sad that people trust the internet for medical advice more than human beings who went to medical school for 8 years.
I get awfully tired of people offering personal insults to support their opinions in scientific discussions.
I'm tired of people offering personal insults whenever you don't share their beliefs and opinions, it has GOT TO STOP!!!
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Long ago, I think Thimerosol was in my contact lens solution. I'm OK with dumping it in my eye, but not in my arm? These people are so tunnel visioned!!
Check your spelling. Thimerosal is not made with surfer. I believe you meant sulfur.
Social media posts that aren't fact checked and verified (by a person, an algorithm, or being linked from a verified source) should be marked "FICTION" in bold letters at the top. FB, Google, etc. totally have the money to do this. Their owner(s) just need to stop being billionaires.
Instead of berating 'anti-vaxxers' or people who get scared when they read the actual contents of a dose of vaccine as I would prefer to characterise them, why not just educate them and answer their questions? We are polarising the argument by labelling them 'anti-vaxxers' when most are simply scared parents who have concerns about something they know little about. Instead of shouting them down, answer them respectfully and explain. Those who can't be convinced, fair enough. But by trying to educate you could change one mind and see a family vaccinated, maybe save not just their lives but those they could have infected too. Remember, not everyone CAN be vaccinated. Young babies have to wait til the appropriate age, some have allergies etc. Those will always be at risk. One vaccinated child could save their lives by not passing on the infection. Choose your words wisely and save a life..
If they would be decent humans, they would not fume about something they don't understand. They think the do understand everything. That is the real issue. An idiot can't realize he is an idiot cause then he wouldn't be an idiot. I do try since years to talk some common sense in this fulks, and I start always polite. But most of them are just lunatics and would never admit they are wrong.
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The Parent's just want to find an excuse other than defective DNA that explain's their child's Autism.
Also, comparing things you eat to things you inject into your bloodstream makes no sense. Please, let's get together some really science based arguments for vaccination.
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Then why is it such a small percentage of people with GBS? You make no sense at all.
Load More Replies... Your not having heard of it before doesn't make it untrue. Microgram is a genuine measurement.
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Flu vaccine is for herd immunity at least as much as it is for any one individual avoiding getting the flu. Lots of people having the vaccine limits the spread of flu throughout the population. And safeguards those who have weaker immune systems, like the elderly, the very young, and the immuno-compromised (eg those going through chemo). So it's not just for you, or just for your kids, that you would be getting the flu vaccine.
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I can't. If people don't understand things they should speak to people who know what they are talking about eg doctors.
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Were you taking those eye products according to the package directions? Were the allergy shots administered according the the proper dosage instructions? How much predatory-fish did you eat? Without any of that information, no reader can form an adequate picture of how you ingested so much mercury.
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The comment "it's bold of them to assume his person knows what a molecule is" made me snort laugh so loud I scared my cat.
Poor Kitty, another (admittedly indirect) victim of anti-vaxxers.
Load More Replies... Good explanation. I'm OK with the oxygen, hydrogen, sodium, even mercury.... but I'm a little concerned about the "surfer" content the respondent mentions. All the surfers I know are smelly beach bums and would not allow any of them into my body for fear for STDs or general grossness.
However often this is repeated, idiots spreading b******t on social media needs to be countered. It might not convince them, but it may stop others for taking their odd ideas as facts.
Anti-vaxxers are dangerous, they are causing more deaths than the worst terrorists that are called "terrorists", but maybe that is the correct epithet; maybe we really should call them Anti-vaxxer Terrorists. Read the following, and then think about the Real World Results of what the Anti-vaxxer Terrorists are posting on-line. (Even extremely bad ideas do spread) "More than 800,000 children are to be targeted for vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a measles outbreak killed more than 3,500 people this year. It has killed more Congolese people this year than Ebola." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49836280
You're a f**king moron! You do realise that MOST people who are against the Covid Vaccination ARE NOT anti vaxxers right? Just anti Covid shot.
Load More Replies... It's like Carlin said, never underestimate stupid people in large groups
Somewhere I read : the IQ of a mob is - the lowest IQ there divided by the number of people.
Load More Replies... Warning: don't need anything from the nightshade family! Everyone knows that night shades are highly toxic! Wake up, Sheeple! Don't eat tomatoes, or potatoes, or egg plants! Or bell peppers!!!* [*This statement has absolutely NOT been certified by a medical professional. This opinion is based on idiocy, and assumption by loose association. Please do not take the unenlightened opinions of uneducated morons over the informed instruction of licensed and trained professionals.]
Except for one thing, all the people who made the Vaccine except Fauci, have now spoken out against the Covid shot.
Load More Replies... Here's my general response to anti-vaxxers: To all the anti-vaxxers out there: The debate is over. It's a matter of trust. Do you trust 300+ years of established science or a fifth-rate actress who epitomizes the old maxim of better seen than heard? I will always trust the former.
LOL the Covid Vaccination is only recent for starters. Do you really think that all the people who are against the Covid Vaccination are full anti vaxxers??? You're a dead set moron if you think they are!!!
Load More Replies... Yet another anti-vaxxer proving they can't pass high school chemistry. Or maths. Or, well, y'know... school....
The terrifying thing is they maybe home " schooling" their kids.
Load More Replies... We put flammable or explosive chemicals in our bodies everyday without batting an eye ...
My husband consumed actual mercury as a child. The fluid metal kind. Because he was an idiot. He's also my husband and very much alive (don't tell our antivaxx friends that it just doesn't get absorbed very well and just leaves the body through the other end, that's not helping my story). Mercury doesn't kill people. People that don't vaccinate kill people. Also. Thanks to the influenza vaccination that was very on point yesteryear my mom got to live for that year. And my son would not be alive without those vaccines. So to all antivaxxies: stay the f*ck away from my family and let us enjoy our mercury in peace.
Yeh it used to be used as a laxative (?) Very low vapour pressure, goes in as a liquid metal and virtually none is absorbed. Organomercury is absorbed well but only what is there
Load More Replies... This won’t stop believers. Just like arguments against the belief in gods won’t stop believers. This is the same exact human behavior as that which causes religion: the desire to believe. They WANT to believe. You can’t stop their want with facts.
You never will make the truthers to change their mind, but you can prevent of others being sucked up into this idiocy by letting them know that there is a simple explanation. So there is a benefit of always arguing against stupid people like anti-vaxxers, flatearthers or chemtrailers.
Load More Replies... I wonder if any of these anti-vaxxers eat sushi or other raw fish? Any mercury in that?
Fish, period. Cooking does not remove the mercury, it kills germs and parasites.
Load More Replies... Ummm sorry, but don't you all think it's kind of Sus that all the people who made the vaccine except for Fauci have spoken out against it??? WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! By the way, I am very pro vaccinations, I am ONLY against this one!! Personally I'm not a fan of the Flu Vaccine either, and I have never gotten it. I have known way, WAY too many people who have actually gotten the flu straight after getting it. I'm not opposed to other people getting it though. Whether you choose to get the Covid Vaccination or the Flu Vaccination is totally up to you, just don't force it on others!!! You know, funny story, last weekend my mother and stepfather came down with Covid and we're extremely sick and bedridden and they have BOTH had the vaccination. I didn't get it and only realised after speaking to my mother that the weird incidences that were occurring to me, was due to the fact that I had Covid, and I was 100% fine and didn't feel sick WHATSOEVER!!! All I had was a weird dream thing, cold during the night, and sweating, that's all.
Read the inserts for the vaccines before you get them. Look to see if you are allergic to any of the ingredients. This is common sense, which today is not common.
Anti-vaxxers are dangerous and unfortunately they are not stopping anytime soon. You could have a board certified doctor talk to them all day and they would think he was lying. It is sad that people trust the internet for medical advice more than human beings who went to medical school for 8 years.
I get awfully tired of people offering personal insults to support their opinions in scientific discussions.
I'm tired of people offering personal insults whenever you don't share their beliefs and opinions, it has GOT TO STOP!!!
Load More Replies... Long ago, I think Thimerosol was in my contact lens solution. I'm OK with dumping it in my eye, but not in my arm? These people are so tunnel visioned!!
Check your spelling. Thimerosal is not made with surfer. I believe you meant sulfur.
Social media posts that aren't fact checked and verified (by a person, an algorithm, or being linked from a verified source) should be marked "FICTION" in bold letters at the top. FB, Google, etc. totally have the money to do this. Their owner(s) just need to stop being billionaires.
Instead of berating 'anti-vaxxers' or people who get scared when they read the actual contents of a dose of vaccine as I would prefer to characterise them, why not just educate them and answer their questions? We are polarising the argument by labelling them 'anti-vaxxers' when most are simply scared parents who have concerns about something they know little about. Instead of shouting them down, answer them respectfully and explain. Those who can't be convinced, fair enough. But by trying to educate you could change one mind and see a family vaccinated, maybe save not just their lives but those they could have infected too. Remember, not everyone CAN be vaccinated. Young babies have to wait til the appropriate age, some have allergies etc. Those will always be at risk. One vaccinated child could save their lives by not passing on the infection. Choose your words wisely and save a life..
If they would be decent humans, they would not fume about something they don't understand. They think the do understand everything. That is the real issue. An idiot can't realize he is an idiot cause then he wouldn't be an idiot. I do try since years to talk some common sense in this fulks, and I start always polite. But most of them are just lunatics and would never admit they are wrong.
Load More Replies... The Parent's just want to find an excuse other than defective DNA that explain's their child's Autism.
Also, comparing things you eat to things you inject into your bloodstream makes no sense. Please, let's get together some really science based arguments for vaccination.
Load More Replies... Then why is it such a small percentage of people with GBS? You make no sense at all.
Load More Replies... Your not having heard of it before doesn't make it untrue. Microgram is a genuine measurement.
Load More Replies... Flu vaccine is for herd immunity at least as much as it is for any one individual avoiding getting the flu. Lots of people having the vaccine limits the spread of flu throughout the population. And safeguards those who have weaker immune systems, like the elderly, the very young, and the immuno-compromised (eg those going through chemo). So it's not just for you, or just for your kids, that you would be getting the flu vaccine.
Load More Replies... I can't. If people don't understand things they should speak to people who know what they are talking about eg doctors.
Load More Replies... Were you taking those eye products according to the package directions? Were the allergy shots administered according the the proper dosage instructions? How much predatory-fish did you eat? Without any of that information, no reader can form an adequate picture of how you ingested so much mercury.
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