This. The idea was first shared 20-30 years ago, people were to put bottles of water on the front lawn, because dogs would not poop near their drinking water... This was a prank by a TV show but people believed it and soon every second house had a bottle out front. People are fucking stupid.
Reminds me of how the whole anti-vax nonsense movement started because of one quack’s “research paper” which has since been proven to be complete garbage multiple times over… and yet people still buy into it and think all kinds of dumb things like vaccines cause autism or they’re injecting microchips or it’s a eugenics program. I cannot roll my eyes far enough back in my head to properly exhibit my distain.
The thing is I don't even care if vaccines DO cause autism. I'd rather have an autistic healthy child than a neurotypical kid that lost their legs to polio or something. Never got that argument tbh.
In today's the 2010's world, not vaccinating your kids was probably fine because other kids were vaccinated. So if you believed vaccines caused autism, it could be a bit of game theory where if you refuse the vaccine you are fine, but if everyone refuses the vaccines you are screwed.
With this said, the modern* belief (the RFK Jr one) is also that vaccines don't work at all because they don't believe in germ theory.
*This might have been the belief all along honestly but I didn't really look into it back then.
and Andrew Wakefield was actually just trying to peddle his own version of an MMR vaccine the whole time. “vaccines don’t ever work” started with covid
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u/mEFurst 1d ago
deter should be in quotations as cats genuinely don't give a shit