Most kids get vaccines literally on the day they are born and they go through a schedule of periodic vaccinations right up until the point that autism "becomes apparent."
There's a lot of people on this site without political science degrees forming their own conclusions based on evidence as well. If somebody saying "you're not a doctor" is enough for you to stop questioning big pharma, you do you man.
EDIT: Really not trying to be confrontational - sorry if it comes across that way. My point is that the discussion around vaccines gets shot down, usually with extreme prejudice, in the exact same way liberals shut down discussion around COVID, abortion, Joe Biden, and any number of other topics - through emotional arguments that don't necessarily stand up to scrutiny.
There are literally thousands of verifiable cases, many that have been paid off through a government fund that was created to compensate victims of vaccine injuries, of toddlers developing autism immediately following a vaccine. When I say immediately following, I mean a completely different, damaged person emerges the day following a vaccination, and the previous personality has been erased as if the toddler was in some sort of brain damaging accident. Andrew Wakefield, who you referenced, did indeed fake his research. That doesn't mean anything other than that guy faked his research. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that autism and vaccines are related, but the pharmaceutical industry is extremely powerful and, much like many other things that we talk about on this site, they make it their business to suppress studies that say anything other than "there is no evidence to suggest that vaccines cause autism."
Two parts to this question:
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It's hard to be excited about death in any way. Was Christ excited to die? No. And, just like everything else in the Bible, that was for a reason. Death is the great unknown and even Jesus asked God if it were possible to "Let this cup pass from me." It is the greatest test of faith and even for believers, it CAN be terrifying.
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For non-believers it is ABSOLUTELY terrifying which is why the left is obsessed with living forever, on the best possible utopian planet, with the fewest possible number of other people to infringe on them.
It's not just autism - that claim was officially "debunked" in much the same way that Hunter Biden's emails have been debunked. It's all sorts of auto immune diseases. To answer your question, hell yeah it does. The debate boils down to this - why are we totally ok with being programmed to believe that injecting a newborn baby with chemicals is morally right and CANNOT cause any odd, unpredictable side-effects, like them suddenly developing a strange and violent immune response? Let's use a little common sense here. Even if vaccines are, overall, beneficial, why is being dubious of their essentially forced application, oftentimes for things like sexually transmitted diseases, on INFANTS - human beings who cannot walk, speak, or in any other way survive on their own, an abhorrent question that needs to be shut down and violently shamed? Seems pretty familiar if you ask me - topics, and responses to topics, like that usually lead to sinister findings, even if the intentions of the people who push them are "good" and "morally right."
Am I crazy though - yeah, this is bad optics - but unless it implicates JOE Biden is a way better than "nice to have the CHANCE to meet you, unnamed person!" it's a non-starter. The press will ignore it and Joe will say the same line of "my son has had trouble in the past, but it's unfair and unkind to bring it up" and now we're back to conspiracy theorists. Yes, if it was Don Jr. it would be a HUGE FUCKING STORY. But, there's nothing here that I see other than some compromising pictures of the dude who isn't running for president.
I didn't vote for President Trump (wrote in Ben Carson) in 2016 - I will not make that same mistake twice. He's been better than incredible as President.
Regarding Glenn Beck - I get it, you think that he'll change his opinion when it's advantageous, but damn, HE FLAT OUT ADMITTED HE WAS WRONG TO EVERYONE and is courting voters for the President as we speak. That takes courage. Y'all are acting like he cheated on your mom or something.
Everyone thought Trump lost the debates against Hillary too. Jeb said that he can't bully his way to the Presidency. This is the exact same rhetoric as 2015/2016. Guess what. The American people were too smart for the bullshit and elected President Trump. Have faith, we'll do it again.
Just tell them that you're not anti science, you're pro scientific method. They don't understand what that means and it will cause their head to explode. Or maybe they'll research the scientific method and realize that "the science is settled" is in direct contradiction to what they claim to support.
Have an UpTrump.