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I thought the US government had just decided that the cause of autism was vaccines </sarcasm>

• emptybits 1mo ago
  No need for your </sarcasm> tag. The United States makes repeated claims linking childhood vaccines to autism. https://www.factcheck.org/2026/08/trump-and-rfk-jr-repeat-false-and-misleading-vaccine-claims/ https://www.factcheck.org/2026/08/trump-and-rfk-jr-repeat-fa...
  • maddie0 1mo ago
    Come now! It is clear that the sarcasm indicator wasn't suggesting that the government didn't really announce that. The sarcasm was in the invocation of governmental authority, which is thereby implied to be ill-founded and not worth listening to.
    • emptybits 28d ago
      Glad it was clear to you. I felt it useful to provide a reliable source for such an outrageous national position. Lest some think it exaggeration or twisting of facts for humour or effect. It's not. Yikes. :-)
    • gignico 23d ago
      Indeed, thanks :)
• SubiculumCode 1mo ago
  no sarcasm tags needed unfortunately, and we autism scientists are very worried/ For example, as I submitted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422954
• piperswe 29d ago
  Have we gone back to vaccines after announcing Tylenol as the cause?