I didn’t catch that she was posting in an Anti-vax group the first time. Gotcha.

I wish I'd been taken to one. I had chicken pox when I was 15 and it was ****ing horrific (I had blisters under my eyelids and in my mouth!)

now we got teh vaccine

Better than autism

actually the increase of autism to the increase of vaccines is like the increase of the warming of the globe to the increase of co2 emissions. there is no way to tell what causes things, does correlation equal causation? people are vilified for either position.

There is no evidence whatsoever to suggest that vaccines cause autism. Scientific American article on why the rate of autism diagnoses has increased here.

There is loads of evidence to suggest that human CO2 emissions contribute to climate change. NASA article here.

In both cases there is a clear scientific consensus on which position is correct.

i'm confused, have people who have been vaccinated decreased over the last 20 years?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesta.../#5a781f5d4c7c

Dude you just googled up an article and didn't bother to read the attached study because you don't give a **** what is true, you just wanted to justify your opinion. But I actually did click through and now I'm going to lol at you.

How did they locate their scientists for this "research"? Let's consult the paper.

Yeah dude. They put out a survey in the magazine of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA), which (due to Alberta's large shale oil reserves) contains huge numbers of people who work in the petroleum industry. APEGA has 40,000 members and they received 1,077 completed surveys, thus also introducing massive selection bias.

So yeah - turns out when you survey people who largely work in the petroleum industry and you select the 1 in 40 most opinionated of them to do a survey, you get a decent chunk of people who think climate change is alarmism. Or at least you did 5 years ago, in 2013, before we had several more hottest years on record.

This James Taylor guy describes this paper as PEER-REVIEWED, so how was such a poorly-designed study allowed to be published? Because that wasn't what they were studying. From the abstract:

This is a social sciences paper. It wasn't seeking to give an estimate of the number of scientists who are skeptical of global warming. That's Taylor's doing. Would you agree that the way he presented the paper - as a peer-reviewed estimate - was wilfully dishonest?

I got them when I was 8 from my older brother.
I noticed them starting on Halloween putting on my costume to go trick or treating.I did not say a word until trick or treating was over.Then i stayed home from school for a week eating candy and playing NES. It was an awesome week.

****...that does sound awesome. I might do that this year.

Probably best to not infect your kids with chicken pox so you get more candy Johnny regardless of how much it will improve their costumes!

Wat?

No one is claiming that the number of vaccinations given or the number of people receiving vaccinations have decreased. No one is claiming that the number of people diagnosed with autism has increased. The increased rate of autism diagnoses is a result of increased awareness and changes in how the condition is recorded.

Guess where Taylor's funding comes from? (Spoiler alert: it's https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.ph...s_Capital_Fund and Exxon)

Correct. No reason to believe the lower rates of vaccination are responsible for the increase in ASD diagnoses though.

Haha preki owned. He's usually so fast in responding when he is called out for his bad posting.

What is the deal with people posting to wish their spouse a happy birthday or anniversary? Am I the only one who thinks that is ultra lame? Can't you just say it in person?

Not as bad as typed out prayers to Sky-Dad.

People do **** like this all the time. It's obvious, they want to let everyone know they said it so their spouse isn't asked stupid questions from their girlfriends why their husband didn't tell them happy bday.

It's one more annoying thing about Facebook which leads me away from it. Frauds I tell You! All Frauds!

I have a friend and his gf post on FB, and the two of them go back and forth posting and replying. So annoying, but I'm not 100% this is the way they really communicate.

"When an NFL ref blows a call and changes the outcome of a game like this they should be fired. It's ridiculous to allow some muscle flexing donkey to stick his nose where it doesnt belong and completely change everything. I'm so angry and disgusted with this ****."

From an angry_sports_guy.

Did you point out the NFL did fire a ref last week?

It took me a while to realize this sponsored ad was actually for a movie made in 1975. I was like wtf is this trying to sell me?

I knew that looked familiar.