# Another Worthless Celebrity Anti-Vaxer

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**Created:** [March 14, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734 "2014-03-14T23:57:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-worthless-celebrity-anti-vaxer/683734/138 "2014-03-20T01:02:29Z")

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> [@Maeglin](#):
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> All of this.
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> When a person has cancer, if you fight the cancer what remains is the person. If we could fight Alzheimer’s and reverse the damage, what would be left would be the original person.
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> Suppose we can fight autism. What we’re left with afterwards is…this is a trick question. There is no non-autistic person inside that would be left over.

You could say the same of mental retardation – there is no non-retarded person inside – but it would still be worth curing if possible. The person cured of intellectual disability could begin to learn all the things he/she was previously incapable of comprehending; and likewise with the autistic cured of emotional/social disability.

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