
The Anti-Vaccine Movement
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Autism Rates
There's something so appealing about these like very tight and easy stories, especially when there's sort of societal correlations involved. Where it's like the vaccines rose at the same time as autism rose. And you could draw the same parallel trend line along the rise of autism rates with a million other things. The number of hours B Arthur is on crime time in a given year. We see this with a lot of social issues too. Like trans rights become more accepted there's a growing number of trans people because people are comfortable coming out. That of course is seen by reactionaries as somehow a threat to society.
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