Morons of The Internet: PETA (14/06/14)

This is the segment where I scour my favorite forums around the internet and find some particularly interesting articles about current affairs told in the words from some of my favorite human beings.

In this edition we have an article for a campaign that was launched by PETA that links dairy products to autism, to be honest this is genuinely unbelievable, how people can still support PETA after this is beyond me.

Got Autism? Learn About the Link Between Dairy Products and the Disorder
(http://www.peta.org/features/got-autism-learn-link-dairy-products-disease/)

Science isn't really PETA's strong point, this article proves that, and it also shows that their followers are willing to believe anything. This article instantly strikes me as bullshit because they actually admit that themselves, they claim "More research is needed". So of course at this point there really isn't a story here, at the moment there is certainly no clear link between dairy products and autism and so why this campaign even exists is another matter, but of course it does exist because followers of PETA tend to be narrow minded, gullible morons.

But don't just take their word for it, no they've got some anonymous sources for us. Why are they anonymous you might ask, probably because they don't exist, either that or PETA are scared that their sources will be verified and only then will it be discovered that their account was bullshit. Of course they also have another two studies to prove their claim, however the number of samples in total is only 56, a pathetic amount. Their main source concerns only 20 samples which even a GCSE Science student will tell you is nowhere near enough to produce any kind of reliable result. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12168688)

But the best part is that this study actually destroys their claim even further. It shows that gluten, which of course is found in wheat and similar grains, is just as effective as the casein in the dairy products. So really PETA have no story here, there is now even scientific evidence to prove that their claim is utter bollocks, and for a charity to be deceptive towards their patrons is very low, even for PETA. I just find it so hypocritical that a charity who exists primarily for welfare reasons would actively bully and influence its members, especially the parents of children with autism who have probably been through a lot in their life and so are going to be manipulated quite easily by a story like this. It seems in PETA's world animals should be treated ethically, but as for humans, we'll give them a lobotomy of crap.

My main concern with this claim is that even basic logic can fathom their stupidity. We all know that a lot of children in the world are autistic, we also know that a lot of children in the world drink dairy products, and so of course there is going to be a positive correlation as the majority of autistic children will also drink dairy products, that's just basic statistics. Before this study I was never a fan of PETA, but when a charitable organization goes to these lows to just lie to their members it really pisses me off. But maybe I shouldn't be annoyed, since when have PETA done anything with their wild claims, they will just make a few posters and do nothing else. They are truly deserving of being morons of the internet.