RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no

Re:RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journa... by lithocarpus on Saturday August 23, 2025 @03:27PM (#44998449)

Aluminum is part of natural materials, but I see no evidence that it naturally gets into a human's blood in similar levels to injected aluminum from vaccines. See my reply to the "10X more aluminum in a muffin than a vaccine" comment on this page.

(disclaimer - not anti-vax, just addressing a simplistic argument that didn't hold up to scrutiny)

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Re:RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journa... by Henchman21 on Saturday August 23, 2025 @03:49PM (#44998596)

You may not be a card-carrying anti-vaxxer, but you muddy the waters in such a way that you advance their position.

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Re:RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journa... by IAmBroom on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @12:13PM (#45028567)

Really? So you're proposing facts should be curated, to keep them away from the other side?

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Re:RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journa... by eggnet on Sunday August 24, 2025 @10:45PM (#45009706)

We know aluminum accumulates in the brain at a rate that is indistinguishable between vaccinated and unvaccinated people.

In other words, we know where the aluminum is not coming from, namely, vaccines.

https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety...

Goullé JP, Grangeot-Keros L. Aluminum and vaccines: Current state of knowledge. Med Mal Infect 2020 Feb;50:16-21.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X1...

Although aluminum at high doses can cause a variety of clinical manifestations, the quantity of aluminum in vaccines is too small to cause a direct toxic effect. Indeed, the quantity of aluminum in biological specimens from those receiving aluminum-containing vaccines is indistinguishable from unvaccinated subjects. The concern that aluminum in vaccines might be associated with a rare autoimmune disease called macrophagic myofasciitis has been refuted by previous studies.

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