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Völva's avatar

The extent to which the victims defend their victimization (“my autism makes me special, it’s not an illness, it’s a neurodivergence that has always existed!”) is so sad. You have to admire the architects of the fraud for their skill and success, but boy it’s pitiful all the same.

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Isabel Livieva's avatar

When you run across those “on the spectrum” jerks please remind them they are like someone with a benign cyst lecturing people that malignant tumors aren’t pathology

Nobody is talking about the “need to be special and unique” weirdos. We have always had those. We are talking about actual pathology

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Alan's avatar

To make anything acceptable fill in the blank...

“my _______________ makes me special, it’s not a negative , it’s a human condition that has always existed!”

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Rita Skeeter's avatar

I imagine far more people are exposed to the Washington Post than fact-based sub stacks like Popular Rationalism, or the information being disseminated in the medical freedom sub stacks in general. Yesterday, I was listening to a liberal podcast (don't remember name). The two speakers were denigrating Kennedy. The female reporter said she 'feels' Kennedy is harming many people due to the changes he is making, although she has not covered the issue, she has been more focused on Trump issues. The male host once again referred to Kennedy as an anti-vaxxer, and said what he is doing is 'scary.' He also mentioned that the replacement ACIP members are those who claimed the covid shot was not safe and effective. He said this in the light of his understanding as the shot actually being safe and effective. Both speakers mentioned their children were eighteen months old. The host said he took his child to the pediatrician asking about moving forward with vaccines. His pediatrician said, 'we make sure the kids in our clinic are vaccinated.' So, this is his source of science for his show on vaccines, a comment made by a pediatrician who is not schooled on vaccines and depends on shots to run the business. Their rhetoric is spoken in tones of intellectual and moral superiority with no science to back up their claims. If they did have science on their side, they wouldn't make those claims to begin with. So, what to do? The government invested in health warnings against smoking to turn the narrative from false advertizing to highlight its dangers. The government needs to make the same investment in legacy media. Regarding politically driven podcasts that conflate science and politics, it would have a positive impact if they agreed to host a scientist such as yourself, or Dr. Malone etc. to calmly and clearly explain the science in layman's terms. I think it is essential for this turn around to happen. Just my opinion though.

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Lon Guyland's avatar

“And ironically, the only "fiction" here is the belief that rising chronic illness is a triumph of modern medicine, not a signal of system failure.”

It *is* a triumph of modern medicine given the right definition of “success”. Today success in medicine is defined by cash flow and not by the well-being of the patient. See psychiatry, addiction “rehabilitation” and “gender affirming care” as red neon flashing examples that are defined by their persistent, utterly disastrous, and tragic failures.

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Dollyboy's avatar

Ergghh I know the answer but why cant publications like the WaPo et al. see they are the baddies? So you're against better health now huh? What's next WaPo, going to tell us that violent crime is a good career? These legacy media publications are just dog shit.

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marlene's avatar

As though the Washington Compost writes the truth or knows the truth about anything. It's just a propaganda piece...of....shiite

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Doreene Close's avatar

Ask any teacher that’s been in a school for a few decades if this is merely improved diagnostics. We are again being guided to disbelieve our lying eyes, to ignore all of the severely Autistic children that we know, that never existed in our communities a few decades ago, to call all of the allergic children just a miracle of modern diagnostics. I don’t think this tired pharma propaganda will be taken seriously by a public that is living with the tragedy of sickness every waking day, in their children, neighbors and friends. Sadly, this media circus will not end until drug advertising is made illegal, as is the case with the rest of the civilized world and as it was before pharma bought their way into the pockets of our political system.

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Isabel Livieva's avatar

This is true just since Covid, every public school teacher can tell you. Parents need to take responsibility and also change their lifestyle

We can’t expect government to fix this problem.

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Doreene Close's avatar

When can we expect government to ban the chemicals and poisons that fill our grocery stores. One can’t even trust organic produce today. We are swimming in a toxic brew which is impossible to avoid, even with every good intention. This is exactly what our government agencies are tasked to do- prevent the poisoning of the plebs.

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Isabel Livieva's avatar

LOL we just didn’t notice non verbal head banging before!!!

Don’t forget transgenderism- another neurodiversity

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Isabel Livieva's avatar

Not funny really

And don’t forget also - pediatric cancers - up 49% or something like that

Of course your child is more likely to SURVIVE THEIR CHILDHOOD CANCER

THANKS TO PHARMA

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Reggie VanderVeen's avatar

Excellent WaPo takedown. Unfortunately WaPo readers are getting exactly what they want to read. Their minds have no room for rebuttals.

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Karen Brennan, PhD's avatar

The NIAID, established in 1955, was seeing declining rates in allergies/infectious diseases when Fauci took over the head role. From then on, rates have risen. Take for example asthma and severe food/peanut allergies. One cannot argue we have better diagnosing now- you know if your child struggles to breath or goes into anaphylactic shock.

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Jean Tobin's avatar

Thank you! Sharing now!

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