Over the years I have found that Republicans love to take one example that supports their stance and use that the prove that all other point of views are incorrect. A couple good examples of this is the Global Warming debate and Carbon Dating. Republicans will point out the only 99% of scientist believe that Global Warming exists and rather than discredit the remaining one percent they hold them up as the only bastions of the truth. Not because they can discuss the actual scientific data that proves their point but rather because this is their opinion and if they can find one professional that agrees with them it must be true.
The same is true with Carbon dating. In an effort to protect the Christian belief that the earth is only 6,000 years old, Christians will quote that once a cowboy boot was tested out by carbon dating to be hundreds of thousand of years old when it was really only around 100 year old. Rather than accept that mistakes can be made or that the information may be false they use this as proof that Carbon dating is a sham.
Well, many of these same people believe that autism is caused by vaccines. Regardless of the fact that many studies had shown this to be false, there was one study that confirmed what these people wanted to believe. This gave them someone to blame and another opportunity to do some fear mongering. The problem is that it turns out the study they have based their belief on is fiction. The guy in charge of the study basically made it up. At this point there is 0% proof that vaccines cause autism but that won't stop the fringe from believing it. As a matter of fact they will just claim that the study is true and the claims that it are not is just a cover up.
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