Is the aluminum in the vaccine necessary for some reason?
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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Aluminum has been used as a vaccine adjuvant since the 1920s to enhance immune response to inactivated and subunit vaccines (subunit vaccines do not contain any live viruses, so they are considered safe for people with compromised immune systems).
From article
I work in a place that deals primarily with aluminum extrusion and sheeting.
About a month ago one of the guys at lunch was saying something about how he doesn't want his ex-wife to get his kids vaccinated because "all the aluminum and mercury is gonna make them r*****d"
I told him to take a closer look at his tuna sandwich because he definitely has shed aluminum dust onto his food unless he takes his jacket off and shakes his hair out, and he should probably wear a mask because that faint glitter in the air isn't fairy dust. Also look up mercury content in tuna.
The HR guy came out because apparently I "called a coworker a slur for autistic people" when he connected the dots that "if I believe those things make one autistic then they must be calling me autistic since I inhale and ingest aluminum all day at work and mercury is in my food" and felt that I was insulting him by informing him of the things he should already know.
(apologies if this was a little incoherent, I just woke up)
This comment makes me think you've been huffing heavy metal dust.
Did you know that doctor-germs are actually healthier than normal people's germs, and that hand-washing is all a scam by Big Soap. When I'm feeling sick, I just cut a small incision in me with a box cutter and have a doctor shove their finger inside.
So, leave your coworker alone! He's an expert in his field, and those aluminum and mercury particles are the healthy kind! Let him get back to spitting bread, tuna, aluminum-coated mucus, and epithets at his coworkers. Stop forcing him to intentionally misconstrue your cautions into personal insults against him!
Btw, this is the same reason that the exhaust from those giant coal-rolling vanity trucks is actually HEALTHY exhaust. And why I recommend that those drivers cup their hands around the tailpipe and gulp as much of their expertly-crafted emissions as possible!
Note: if you look really closely, you might find the part where I used sarcasm.
And probably uses an aluminium based deodorant.
The fucking mental gymnastics of that dude… he says the word, then tries to turn it around on you 😑
did the HR guy piss off when you explained the situation, or keep it going?
This was HR, in a situation where they can be seen as going off half-cocked.
OF COURSE the HR rep kept it going.
It's hilarious how these people call others snowflakes yet they melt (down) over the smallest challenge to their beliefs.
Me? Oh, just cooking stuff on this aluminum pan covered in PTFE plastic that I'm scraping with this chromated utensil into everyone's plate.....
i get your point but why would you scrape a nonstick pan
It just happens. One day you are too lazy. But even using plastic utensils ofcourse will create rubbing particles. I've actually investigated this at work for particulate control processes. Then you got patterned aluminum pans coated with PTFE.... Obviously the high points on the pan surface will erode or cause utensil erosion leading to more plastics in my balls.
Not really. Hardness matters. 'plastic' utensils are soft. They're incapable of damaging harder material.
Where do your investigations get published and peer reviewed?
This is very simply tested. 30x microscope is more than sufficient to observed microscopic and macroscopic damage.
A quick internet search: TFE (Teflon), which is known for being soft (Shore D 50-60) and waxy. Harder, more rigid plastics include PEEK, Polycarbonate, Nylon, Acetal (POM), PCTFE and UHMW-PE.
Practically any utencil can catch some burnt food and become abrasive instantly. LOL. We're just scratching the plastics into our food every day.
fascinating, that's pretty cool that you studied that :)
We literally breathe Aluminum in from the air daily. Vaccines are minimal.
We literally breathe
Is there any other way to breathe? Are there any other adverbs?
Since when has reality or evidence ever factored into the thinking of a conspiracy theorist (unless it conveniently aligns with their idiocy?)
The article fails to make a case that aluminum is even harmful. It talks about the safe limits but that's not the same.
Because whether or not it's harmful doesn't even matter when the vaccines don't even move the needle on terms of exposure anyway.
With respect to the vaccine facet at least. If exposure is otherwise harmful, well that's up to other studies to determine.
vaccines don't even move the needle
That's literally how they work
Hah, technically incorrect. Vaccines don't move the needle, vaccines move through the needle as they are moved by the plunger.
The human moves the needle.
The article is all about quantity but not even one bit about if either quantity is, in fact, dangerous at either level. What's the distance between the "safe" amount and the toxic amount? In a lot of cases there is an order of magnitude or two between the safe limit and the lowest level needed for a toxic effect.
I know this is targeted at people that can't science but I feel it left out a "why are you even worried about aluminum in the first place" bit.
Because that’s not the case it is making…
It is the claim made by vaccine deniers that the aluminum in vaccines is very dangerous. This study demonstrates that dietary aluminum exposure far exceeds exposure by vaccines. The implications of this study on those claims are left as an exercise to the reader.
If I were an anti-vaxxer I'd quickly dismiss this by assuming that aluminum consumed is magically not absorbed into my prescious bodily fluids during digestion. Those people are all about that needle phobia body horror so they will quickly move the goal post to it not being the amount but the method.
Fuck Al.
Aluminium Ingestion?
Alumin~~i~~um ~~Ingestion?~~
Both words are correct, though aluminium is by far the more common word for the material.
Two swings, two whiffs but I'm not sure which one of us is at bat.