I put this in Social rather than Medicine because it's the social aspect which interests me.
I was at a family party last month, when the topic turned to a 15 minute discussion about how evil mercury in vaccines was. With the exception of me and three old women, who had no clue, but agreed with the consensus, there was universal knowledge of this fact.
Not a kibitzer or two -- everybody had heard it, and "knew" it.
There was not a mention of autism -- the meme had severed its reliance on autism as the Big Bad, and had co-opted its fraudulently purported mechanism of action into that role. And not even the mechanism -- just mercury itself is bad, mmmkay?
From what I could gather, it was about mercury as poison, though some were more about individuals with mercury allergies. The latter, however, didn't even enter the mind of most, who were in the former camp.
I was at a family party last month, when the topic turned to a 15 minute discussion about how evil mercury in vaccines was. With the exception of me and three old women, who had no clue, but agreed with the consensus, there was universal knowledge of this fact.
Not a kibitzer or two -- everybody had heard it, and "knew" it.
There was not a mention of autism -- the meme had severed its reliance on autism as the Big Bad, and had co-opted its fraudulently purported mechanism of action into that role. And not even the mechanism -- just mercury itself is bad, mmmkay?
From what I could gather, it was about mercury as poison, though some were more about individuals with mercury allergies. The latter, however, didn't even enter the mind of most, who were in the former camp.
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