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Citing Fox News segment, Limbaugh fearmongers that H1N1 vaccine ingredient has been linked to autism

October 08, 2009 4:23 pm ET

From the October 8 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' Rush Limbaugh:

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Dr. Kent Holtorf on Fox News.

Wash. Post: NIH vaccine clinical trial revealed no significant side effects.

Previously: Beck, Limbaugh fomenting fear about H1N1 vaccine

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    • Author by DAWUSS (October 08, 2009 4:27 pm ET)
         
      How can H1-N1 be linked to autism if autism is a... nevermind... I shouldn't be trying to pretend they can keep their stories straight
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (October 08, 2009 4:31 pm ET)
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      Can't take criticism from a woman, eh, Rush? Don't take the freakin' vaccine of you don't want to. Freakin' die if you want to. Nobody cares what you do...it's that you're encouraging your idiot listeners not to. And one of those morons is liable to give the infection to me and my family.
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      • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (October 08, 2009 4:53 pm ET)
           
        Yeah,

        Don't take the vaccine Rush. You'll be fine. Good boy el Fathead. Be strong.

        You don't need no damn govmint vaccine. You'll be fine.
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      • Author by snoopy (October 08, 2009 7:00 pm ET)
           
        Hey now, purging the gene pool of dittoheads would be good for the country!
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    • Author by henock (October 08, 2009 4:41 pm ET)
         
      This is highly irresponsible.. he must not forget that there are those to whom his words are the words of god.
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    • Author by bintx (October 08, 2009 4:48 pm ET)
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      This guy is an ignorant jerk. He cares NOTHING about people or this country. He cares ONLY about lining his pocket.

      He's talking about thimerosal, the preservative which some autism activists claim is a cause of autism. The link has been discredited . . . the rise in autism is most probably associated with increase in mercury pollution in our water and increased awareness of the disorder. Many autism victims in the past were labeled "retarded" or they were the labeled the "class geek" who didn't know how to socialize with others [Aspergers].
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    • Author by terrapin53 (October 08, 2009 5:13 pm ET)
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      Know what is really scarey? When people say, "but Rush said it was".
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    • Author by soze169880 (October 08, 2009 5:14 pm ET)
         
      I have Asperger's Syndrome, and for this bloated, drug-addicted, draft-dodging welfare queen to try to exploit BS pseudoscience about it being caused by vaccines just made it really freaking personal, especially when it's (as always) all about the money for him. If any of you worthless trolls want to thumb me down for this, go right ahead. Says more about you and your Messiah than me or any "lib".
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    • Author by Lord of Light (October 08, 2009 5:37 pm ET)
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      This is beyond irresponsible. As disappointed as I am that there are people that listen to this clown and think he has any relationship with the truth, I wouldn't wish H1N1 on them. Rush got a listener rebellion about second-hand smoke about a dozen years or so ago and I'm hoping that no one listens to this idiotic misinformation.
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    • Author by magnolialover (October 08, 2009 6:19 pm ET)
         
      Rush, wrong again (as always). There is no evidence linking the preservative used in some vaccines to autism. None at all.
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    • Author by vonbargen9388 (October 08, 2009 6:49 pm ET)
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      I looked up Kent Holtorf, M.D. on Google and the California Medical Board website. He runs an "alternative medicine" practice that specializes in "natural hormone replacement" and assorted other quackery. Limbaugh and Fox are circulating dangerously false and misleading medical information about the H1N1 vaccine and the discredited links between thimerosal and autism.
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    • Author by canaanxing9025 (October 08, 2009 7:02 pm ET)
         
      Props to Dr. Nancy Synderman.

      Just keep in mind, Limbaugh probably said the same thing to his mother: "I won't eat my vegetables because you tell me too." How did that work out for you, Lardbutt.
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