100% of autistic people who have lived past 30 have breathed air and drank water, but nobody is out here drawing the link between air and water…. The real danger.

[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thousands of people got severely exposed to Dihydrogen Monoxide during 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2005 Hurricane Katrina, and subsequently died! It's frankly baffling that people don't talk more about this!

[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This was what lead to the idea that vaccines caused autism, Peta was pushing this crap in the 90s.

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve never heard peta mentioned in this context. Source?

[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://time.com/2798480/peta-autism-got-milk/

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/the-bad-science-behind-petas-claim-that-milk-might-cause-autism/371751/

https://www.newsweek.com/peta-autism-twitter-ad-1559104

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

These are all about the supposed link between milk and autism, not vaccines and autism.

[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

I've realized that I poorly worded my earlier post, I meant that the claim that milk causing autism inspired the later claimed that vaccines cause autism, it was the first popularized claim that X consumable caused autism as far as I know of.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

It's peta, so probably not.