Oregon Shooter on 5 types of mind-altering medications, and .....
from Natural News:
More truth is coming out now about the Oregon shooter Christopher Mercer.
It turns out he's taking at least five types of mind-altering medications, and he also suffered from autism spectrum disorder that a top CDC scientist admitted was linked to vaccines given to African-Americans.
Is anyone surprised to find that yet another mass shooting involved a person who was damaged by medications or vaccines?
Re: Oregon Shooter on 5 types of mind-altering medications, and .....
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from Natural News:
More truth is coming out now about the Oregon shooter Christopher Mercer.
It turns out he's taking at least five types of mind-altering medications, and he also suffered from autism spectrum disorder that a top CDC scientist admitted was linked to vaccines given to African-Americans.
Is anyone surprised to find that yet another mass shooting involved a person who was damaged by medications or vaccines?
This is yet another in a very long line of sickening displays of intellectual dishonesty by "Natural News". Natural News is implying that the shooting was caused by vaccination because by getting vaccinated it caused the shooter to get Asperger Syndrome (which is also completely false) and, according to the implication Natural News is making, having Asperger Syndrome (which is on the autism spectrum) made the shooter more prone to doing this violent crime.
This is a gross lie that just further stigmatizes the already stigmatized community of people on the autism spectrum. Natural News should be ashamed of themselves (but when are they ever?).
Here is a statement from the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee within the US Department of Health and Human Services (https://iacc.hhs.gov/) and which is based on actual science:
"There is no scientific evidence linking ASD with homicides or other violent crimes. In fact, studies of court records suggest that people with autism are less likely to engage in criminal behavior of any kind compared with the general population, and people with Asperger syndrome, specifically, are not convicted of crimes at higher rates than the general population (Ghaziuddin et al., 1991, Mouridsen et al., 2008, Mouridsen, 2012)."
For Natural News to imply that people with Asperger Syndrome have more of a tendency for violent criminal behavior falsely accuses autistic people on all parts of the autistic spectrum, and frankly, it is just disgusting. Time and time again Natural News proves to have no integrity or even basic human morality, but rather, proves to just want to profit itself by trafficking unsupported fear.
Scott
Re: Oregon Shooter on 5 types of mind-altering medications, and .....
Scott, are you ignoring the elephant in the room?
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Scott, are you ignoring the elephant in the room?
I don't think I am.
We can talk about the absurd and irresponsible proliferation of firearms in the US and how politicians are bought off to support this insanity. We can also talk about the unsubstantiated claim that vaccination causes autism. But for Natural News to somehow imply that such violence is more likely to be caused by people on the autism spectrum is not backed up by data and does a great disservice to the autism community, and Natural News should be called out for it.
A few data points does not make a larger conclusion.
If there is any group or demographic that is common with these shootings it's young men, mostly white, who come from middle class or affluent backgrounds. So are we going to stigmatize all young, middle class white men?
Scott
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Is anyone surprised to find that yet another mass shooting involved a person who was damaged by medications or vaccines?
he was also in the military. Is that any more or less relevant? It's most likely another random factoid. I wonder if he ate junk food? or played too many video games? or indulged in some other behavior that's not socially respected.
Medicine use is correlated with having a disease, true, but the correlation usually works in the opposite direction - having the disease precedes taking the meds. It's easy to use a correlation to reinforce prejudices. I wonder how often it rained after Aztec sacrifices?
