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antivaxx, autism (schadenfreude++) 

clarification: first serious indication of enviromental influences that I am aware of. I phrased it that way to emphasise the word serious, not the word influence - i.e., while there are many claims of enviromental influences, many are just quackery.

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antivaxx, autism (schadenfreude++) 

But the enviromental influence is NOT mercury, 'chemicals', 'wifi', 'overstimulation', or anything that other quacks push. They literally just tested for vaccination.

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antivaxx, autism (schadenfreude++) 

In a landmark study involving 650,000 children over 14 years, they found that the measles vaccine...

REDUCES THE INCIDENCE OF AUTISM.

Being unvaccinated increases the rate of autism by 17%.

In addition to being a major defense of vaccination, this is the first serious indication that there might actually be an enviromental influence in autism.

twitter.com/NBCNews/status/110

health question 

Is it bad that I'm always seeing static everywhere?

How many light bulbs will go out before B replaces them? Guesses in replies.

Why don't these miniature ship in a bottle builders ever try and put TWO ships in ONE bottle?

A really great feature for Mastodon would be telling you when something was boosted, instead of when the original post was posted.

My photo of the river from the train window got photobombed by another passing train, and I quite like the result!

I still don't understand how snow somehow makes sunshine even brighter when it reflects it

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