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In April, the MAHA Mom Coalition, an organization that claims it advocates for “parental rights, holistic health, clean food & water, and medical freedom,” put out an unusual call. They wanted to talk to the farmers who’d been finding mysterious boxes of ticks in their fields—farmers and boxes that, by every available indication, don’t seem to exist.

“Can anybody reading this right now validate this?” the MAHA Mom Coalition wrote on their Instagram page. “We’d love to connect with and speak to these farmers!!”

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 36 points 2 weeks ago

“Can anybody reading this right now validate this?” the MAHA Mom Coalition wrote on their Instagram page. “We’d love to connect with and speak to these farmers!!”

Subtext:

"Who's willing to lie to us for internet points?"

[–] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

True facts about ticks.

I wish they covered how this vaccine worked a little more closely. Ticks avoid capture by using their saliva to numb the skin where they implant so that they can feed on you. The vaccine just targets the effectiveness of the saliva to make it useless, so the tick still bites you, but you can detect it and pull the tick off before the bacteria that causes Lyme disease takes effect. If you watch the video above, it explains why it takes time for that to happen.

There are theories that the compound in tick saliva that tricks your body into not feeling the bite or sending white blood cells to attack the area immediately actually mimics the way that cancer hides from the body by hiding from your immune system. Coming up with a vaccine that could render their saliva useless could also help with certain types of cancer including colon cancer. Limiting this vaccine actually could limit long term cancer vaccine research.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Sarah Outlaw

They need to hunt down and destroy thr fucker at the root of this shit. Theres needs to start being consequences to being a worthless fuck

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That would be Andrew Wakefield.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

He blew her up but Sarah Outlaw originated the bullshit.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

THEYRE TURNING THE TICKS GAY

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You do know that Alex Jones made a mockery out of the legitimate work of Tyrone Hayes that showed that atrazine, an herbicide, and endocrine disruptor, one of many in our environment, turned frogs hermaphroditic and wiped out populations in concentrations as low as several parts per billion. But because Alex Jones' dumbass comment half of you will dismiss the real danger of these endocrine disruptors, because, I don't want to be rude.

Cry havoc... https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/02/tyrone-hayes-atrazine-syngenta-feud-frog-endangered/

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I’ve heard about it. A lot of grifters latch onto a kernel of truth to lend some credence to their bullshit. I’m not dismissing anything

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Right? Honestly seems like it would solve the tick problem.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

false conspiracy theories!

If they aren't false, they are not really conspiracy theories are they?

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like to use the term "conspiracy tale" for those nutjob theories. Because yeah, real conspiracies exist and theorizing about them is legitimate.

In the end it's all about the bullshit part, not the conspiracy part.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I agree, we need another word for a conspiracy theory that isn't bullshit, because real conspiracies exist, but almost all "conspiracy theories" we hear about are far out tinfoil hat bullshit.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Anything but admitting global warming exists.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

With 1/2 million cases of lyme disease annually, a vaccine that stops 70% of cases would be a huge benefit.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lyme-disease-vaccine-ticks-infection