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[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This was what lead to the idea that vaccines caused autism, Peta was pushing this crap in the 90s.

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve never heard peta mentioned in this context. Source?

[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

These are all about the supposed link between milk and autism, not vaccines and autism.

[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

I've realized that I poorly worded my earlier post, I meant that the claim that milk causing autism inspired the later claimed that vaccines cause autism, it was the first popularized claim that X consumable caused autism as far as I know of.