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Walker Pennington

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  1. 'If microchip companies make a profit from the generous grants they receive from the federal government, the taxpayers of America have a right to a reasonable return on that investment. ... Taxpayers should not be providing billions of dollars in corporate welfare to large, profitable

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  2. I think it's completely reasonable that pharmaceuticals would cut corners if they could. The ingredient wasn't thimerosal (to my memory), but rather something fictional. It became a story about pharmaceuticals cutting corners. Again, it was very careful to NOT say vaccines actually cause autism.

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  3. To be fair, the series was very careful not to clarify whether the vaccine caused autism or not. It shifted to simply the manufacturer added a dubious ingredient and they won not because it for-sure caused autism, merely because the manufacturer wouldn't use the vaccine on his own kid.

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  4. To be clear, tho the vaccine potentially causing autism was the initial plot point during a time when we didn't have the evidence we do now, it was very careful to not provide if the vaccine caused autism, but rather that the manufacturer had a dubious ingredient and wouldn't give it to his own kid.

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  5. Eli Stone was a phenomenal series; like most shows, the pilot is the roughest and not the best episode.

    That being said, it was careful to never say that vaccines cause autism, but rather that the manufacturer wouldn't use that same vaccine due to a controversial ingredient. Clever and realistic.

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