If not vaccines, then it must be electromagnetic fields!

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12 Feb 2021, 5:42 pm

According to This Article, if the one, true cause of autism is not vaccines, then it simple must be Microwave Electro-Magnetic Frequency Emission.

Note that the writer of the article is not making this claim; instead, he is revealing another self-appointed "expert" who claims to have done "research" on the topic, and who is hell-bent on warning the rest of us of the alleged dangers of Microwave Electro-Magnetic Frequency Emission, and specifically 5G WiFi.

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As supporters of science-based medicine know, in the woo-sphere, there is only One True Cause of Autism, and that is vaccines. At least, so it would seem. The idea that vaccines cause autism is based largely on anecdotes tinged with confirmation bias and selective memory mixed with a massive confusing of correlation with causation whereby the increase in autism prevalence over the last twenty years appears to correlate with an expansion of the vaccine schedule ... It's about the vaccines. It's always been about the vaccines. It always will be about the vaccines. Vaccines are the one fixed point in the antivaccine universe that always have caused autism, cause autism, and will cause autism, always and forever, amen.

I was unpleasantly surprised to find out that someone actually did come up with a "One True Cause" of autism that wasn't vaccines and does confuse correlation with causation. It also uses some Grade-A Prime woo to justify the author's "theory" of what causes autism ... something called "The Fullerton Informer." Basically, the "hypothesis" is as follows:
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There are two points of discussion...

1. WiFi in the schools is dangerous to young children.
2. A hypothesis that Microwave Electro-Magnetic Frequency Emission acting upon metals in the child's brain in and out of the womb is the cause of autism,

The author of this woo is one Joe Imbriano, owner and author of The Fullerton Informer, a website so full of woo and conspiracy theories that I am surprised that even the most die-hard wooists and conspiracy theorists from our website have not yet latched on to it.

If anyone you know starts buying into this dog's breakfast served up by Joe Imbriano in an iron woo-bowl, shut down their computer and quickly give them a healthy does of real reality! It will be for their own good.

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12 Feb 2021, 5:53 pm

Well, obviously...

Either that or auras.

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12 Feb 2021, 5:54 pm

Jiheisho wrote:

Well, obviously...

Either that or auras.

I detect sarcasm, but I do not understand it. Please restate in the form of pithy, biting satire.

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12 Feb 2021, 5:59 pm

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Though he is the founder of the American Open University (AOU), which has trained most of the members of the North American Imams Federation, fundamentalist Muslim theocrat Jaafar Sheikh Idris doesn’t appear to count as American – he needs a brief mention, though, for his apparent influence among certain crazier Muslim groups in the US.

“Open university”.... hmm

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14 Feb 2021, 12:22 pm

Mine was caused by a lightning strike near my bed. :lol:

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14 Feb 2021, 3:20 pm

EM fields produced by SpAcE LaZzOrZ!! ! of course :wink:

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14 Feb 2021, 3:23 pm

Misslizard wrote:

Mine was caused by a lightning strike near my bed. :lol:

Really? Mine was caused when I put a squirrel in a sound gun and shot him into a transformer at the power company.

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14 Feb 2021, 3:39 pm

Is autism something that is wholly a genetic fluke or is it a genetic fluke triggered by the environment?

Probably not going to find the answer to this in my lifetime given how fast DNA research is moving.

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14 Feb 2021, 6:56 pm

Seems legit.

Earth has a magnetic field. There is autism on Earth.

Mars does not have a magnetic field. There is no autism on Mars.

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15 Feb 2021, 12:11 pm

Perfect logic.
However.
If one reads classic Edgar Rice Burroughs, one learns that Mars , or Barsoom, is home to some fascinating cultures/races.
The behavior of certain individuals is quite difficult to understand without the advantage of analysis/written diagnosis by a qualified neurologist or behavioral psychologist
From what few of Mr. Burroughs‘ well-researched scholarly books I have read, Mars has no neurologists.
Therefore, we cannot be ABSOLUTELY sure there is no autism at all on the entire planet.

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15 Feb 2021, 12:13 pm

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Valentine Michael Smith might disagree with you.

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15 Feb 2021, 2:42 pm

5G WiFi just was not a thing when I was born. Also, my phone doesn't have 5G. Yet I'm still here and autistic. Their argument is invalid.

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15 Feb 2021, 10:03 pm

Of Course! (Throws my hands into the air) That explains it all!

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16 Feb 2021, 9:57 am

Or bison. As a child I saw bison at the zoo - maybe there's some sort of bisonic radiation in effect?

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16 Feb 2021, 12:04 pm

Cornflake wrote:

Or bison. As a child I saw bison at the zoo - maybe there's some sort of bisonic radiation in effect?

That also seems legit.... In fact, didn't they discover a Higgs Bison some years ago? It could be the culprit.

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16 Feb 2021, 12:08 pm

GGPViper wrote:

Cornflake wrote:

Or bison. As a child I saw bison at the zoo - maybe there's some sort of bisonic radiation in effect?

That also seems legit.... In fact, didn't they discover a Higgs Bison some years ago? It could be the culprit.

Higgs bison or higgs boson? I looked on Wikipedia for a higgs bison and was redirected to higgs boson.

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