The authorities you and the fellow sheep in your herd rely on are crooks. There are criminals with academic degrees, lots of them. An academic degree by itself is no guarantee for truth.
And the ability to be a great actor is no guarantee for truth either. So. Why believe De Niro or his wife? The point is this: anyone can lie, yes. But people without training or expertise in infections and the preventing of them can't offer any factual information on the subject of vaccines with authority. All they can offer is that they "feel this" or "believe that." And that doesn't hold up as proof in science, in life or in court. And thank goodness for that. Otherwise, I could "feel" that you're a murderer of children and be believed even if I had no evidence. Should the world act on my "feelings" and throw you in jail for what I absolutely believe you did, or would you rather that the world act on factual information? Wouldn't you rather that I be forced to PROVE you guilty with verfiable facts?
Robert De Niro's wife seemed convinced that in the case of their autistic child there was a link to vaccines.
And, again, I should trust her why? What are her facts? What studies and research has she done that validates her claim?
Evidently you, she and Mr. Di Niro need a simple lesson in another and very important logical fallacy. Please try to watch this one this time. Because when you use such fallacies, you undermine any chance of anyone taking your assertions seriously (ditto for Mrs. & Mr. Di Niro):
It's impossible to wake someone up that is pretending to sleep.
Exactly. I really wish you'd stop pretending to be asleep and give the waking world a try. Oh, wait, did you mean me? Hm. Ad hominem argument that. If you can't present facts to win the argument, attack the person. Tsk, tsk. You really need to do better than that if you want me or anyone else to take you seriously. And I hope for your sake, that you're never accused of a crime that people believe you've commited irregardless of the facts. Because that's what you're doing here. You're believing everyone's claims of vaccines committing this crime, whether or not the facts prove it. By this reasoning, you could easily be thrown in jail for not doing a thing. So long as some famous actor's wife THINKS and BELIEVES you commited the crime, you will be judged guilty.
Well, as you say, you can't get through to someone who puts their hands over their ears and says "la-la-la! I'm not listening!" Enjoy your scary nightmares.
