Re: The collapse of fact and reason

In my previous post I suggested there were two potential responses to the evidence I provided on vaccine safety and effectiveness: 1) Ranting about Big Pharma and conspiracies and trying to cloud the issue with personal attacks, and 2) considering the evidence and coming to a logical conclusion based on facts.

DQ comes up with this response: "Your post was so transparent and pathetic that you even felt compelled to use one of the oldest tactics in the books for a thoroughly unsupportable argument - concluding that anyone who disagrees could only do so for two wrong reasons of your own furnishing. Or was that your own masters furnishing?

I fully expected that you would have no choice but to make a response to the post on behalf of those who either brainwash you or compensate you - or both. I am beginning to believe more and more that there surely has to be some compensation involved."

Talk about a crystal ball. We could have expected this resort to Conspiracy theory and personal attack. It's a lot easier than trying to deal with facts.

Thimerosal was removed from virtually all routine U.S. childhood vaccines beginning in 1999. Autism rates should have been plummeting by now if thimerosal was the culprit. Instead they have continued to rise. Logic tells us other factors are involved.
Some antivax activists have recognized the futility of their campaign and are now blaming a host of undocumented environmental causes and products for autism. Others have too much invested in the vaccine/mercury connection to give it up now.

For instance, take the Geiers, authors of the paper InCharge cited. They're still pushing the mercury theory, despite its refutation by a large body of competent research. The Geiers also continue to blame "high androgen levels" in autistic children, as part of their campaign promoting the drugging of these children with the antiandrogen pharmaceutical Lupron.

Sounds like they believe in medication, not education. Tweet