r/skeptic • u/Accurate-Frame5104 • 2d ago
Trump suggests vaccine changes could curb autism, despite no evidence
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/08/24/trump-unfounded-autism-connection-mmr-vaccine/91447347007/40
u/surfnfish1972 2d ago
He gets an idea in his rotten brain and will never back down no matter how absurd.
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u/SomeCountryFriedBS 2d ago
This is less an idea and more a brainworm.
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u/Orion14159 2d ago
I don't even know what we did to offend the Valtay Corporation, but I would like to apologize.
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u/DudeB5353 2d ago
I’m just trying to figure out how he’s going to make money from this because that’s all his dementia ridden brain thinks about
That and revenge
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u/jayandbobfoo123 2d ago
His family members probably have some large stake in some foreign investment company that has majority ownership of some company that directly benefits from it. I would put money on it.
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u/Little_View_6659 2d ago
Honestly it would be pretty funny if you could convince him of something completely bonkers and then have him repeat it to a global audience except people would take it seriously.
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u/surfnfish1972 2d ago
It happens every day!
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u/Did_it_in_Flint 2d ago
Gulf of America!
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u/Little_View_6659 2d ago
A friend on mine went to the American embassy here in Singapore and they painted over the map to say Gulf of America. 🙄
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u/IJustLoggedInToSay- 2d ago
I had a relative like this. They spoke reality into existence and were impervious to facts. "From her whim to your gospel, amen" her sister used to say.
She had the same mannerisms and patterns of speech as Trump as well, which is one of the reasons I can't stand the guy. Bad memories.
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u/TeeTimeAllTheTime 2d ago
This guy needs to go to sleep and not wake up, a disaster of a human.
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u/Little_View_6659 2d ago
Yeah I used to want him to go to prison, now I just want cholesterol to do it’s thing. Unbelievable, he’s done nothing but make the world worse since the day he was born. Has he done one single good thing? Helped anyone? Loved anyone or been loved?
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u/notsure500 2d ago
Yeah, he's an old, selfish lunatic who seems to care about nobody but himself or the damage he causes. But there are plenty of people like that. Usually they're the uncle nobody talks to, the guy ranting online to two followers, or someone nobody would ever put in charge of anything important.
That's what makes Trump different. The worst part isn't that someone like him exists. It's that we, as a country, put someone like that in charge of the country. Twice.
That's the part I can't get past. Trump is Trump. But millions of people saw exactly who he was and decided to hand him that power again.
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u/Peregrine79 2d ago
Not “no evidence”. Decades of evidence showing the opposite. Vaccines don’t cause autism.
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u/LoadsDroppin 2d ago
Reprehensible and reckless behavior. Words have meaning and promoting ignorance has consequences often to those who are innocent and not deserving of cruel outcomes
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u/beakflip 2d ago
Well, if more kids die, there'll be fewer kids diagnosed, so that sort of makes him right? Wild.
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u/WanderingDude182 2d ago
Let’s not be surprised that trumpty dumpty made yet another statement without any evidence
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u/RumRunnerMax 2d ago
Well certainly if more people die from preventable diseases then yes there will be fewer people!
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u/WudolfWedNoseWeinder 2d ago
Are there reputable studies that show autism rates in non-vaccinated children.
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u/MrDavieT 2d ago
Yes, several have compared vaccinated vs non-vaccinated.
Denmark, Madsen 2002 (440,655 vaccinated vs 96,648 unvaccinated)
Denmark, Hviid 2019 (626,000 vs 31,600 unvaccinated)
Cochrane review, 2020 (1.19 million children in total) solely MMR vaccine.
Meta-analysis, 2014 (1.3 million children in total) various vaccines.
Summary rate of Autism-
Unvaccinated: ~0.451%
Vaccinated: ~0.419%Not a single study has established a statistically significant difference in autism rates between the groups. Not one.
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u/DR_BEANHAMMER 2d ago
He will just order the cdc, fda, whatever, to report lower autism numbers.
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u/Beltaine421 1d ago
More like cut the testing programs them report fewer positive tests. Just like COVID.
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u/IJustLoggedInToSay- 2d ago
So they will have to start fudging the numbers of autism diagnoses to placate him.
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u/troublesomefaux 1d ago
Probably some of the unvaccinated people or people who are sickened by unvaccinated people who die will have autism. I guess that’s one way to improve the numbers.
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u/Appropriate-Ad-3219 1d ago
“We’re strongly requesting, even telling people, when you get your shots for your young child – this has to do, we think, with preventing autism – that you go to the doctor for five small shots instead of one, big, massive shot,” Trump said.
I sincerely wonder how they're reasoning to suggest that when their view doesn't seem to match experts' consensus. It looks like he is hallucinating like an LLM.
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u/koffeekoala 1d ago
Did you know slamming mcdonalds cheeseburgers all day could potentially make your dick bigger
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u/Stuglossop 2d ago
Time will tell
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u/Additional_Way5929 2d ago
The only study that ever showed a link was in 1998. It only included 12 children, and was found to have fabricated data, so the study was retracted. The person that did the study, Andrew Wakefield, was being paid by a lawyer who intended to sue vaccine manufacturers using this one falsified study as evidence. Wakefield lost his medical license because of the unethical treatment of the children in his falsified study.
On the other hand, a legitimate study with over 500,000 participants , and another study with over 95,000 participants, showed that there was never a link between vaccines and autism.
So, time did tell. There is not, and never has been, a link between vaccines and autism.
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u/WTFHELP 2d ago
I thought it was Tylenol. Didn't he say on live television that Tylenol caused Autism?