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Talking about "concern for secondary effects like autism" legitimizes the theory, whether you wanted to or not; that's why the person you responded to got annoyed.

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It does not. And downvoting for being annoyed seems like a low bar. But people are just fucking hard to have a conversation these days.

On second thoughts I should have said “concern for alleged secondary effects”.

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