WASHINGTON- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his view that toxins in the environment contribute to autism with a series of new studies to investigate the issue as scientists continue to push back on his claims.
lol kids gonna die
wait . . . that’s terrible
“Mentally Disabled Man Falls For Conspiracy Theory”
Didn’t they just declare open season on environmental toxins for oil, coal, AI, whatever? After we already know how bad they are for health, particularly in historically abused minority neighborhoods?
“This is coming from an environmental toxin and somebody made it and put that environmental toxin into our air or water or medicines or food,” Kennedy said during the press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services’ headquarters in Washington, D.C.
“And we’ll announce the culprit as soon as the next corporate figure from any of those industries is critical of the Trump administration.”
It’s a communist conspiracy to scare people into thinking the mega corporations just don’t care about them.
Maybe our skills in identifying spectrum traits has improved with greater awareness? Y’know, maybe. Maybe that’s a plausible explanation.
They’ve run plenty of studies on this type of stuff. Promise this “study” will be biased and corrupt with an outcome that matches RFK’s previous ranting.
In right wing world science is jumping to a faith based conclusion and then smashing together a bunch of data from random experiments that looks like something that comes to said conclusion. If something looks to change the conclusion then the process is wrong not the conclusion.
Government efficiency amirite?
Even if this was true… the current administration is all about rolling back all the regulations that protect us from things like this hypothetical toxin.
The government wouldn’t ban it, they’d call it fake news and give companies producing it subsidies so they could make more.
“Toxins”.
JFC
Am I hearing this right… Toxins released from corporations are to blame so this administration is repealing all environmental protections it can.
So is this some perverse experiment to see if they can cause more suffering or are these people just insufferable twats!?
What an absolute waste of taxpayer money. Surely DOGE will be shuttering this… right? /s
Would be hilarious if they discovered the rising rates were due to microplastics in the environment. Deregulation will surely fix that…
No, micro plastics have now been shown to prevent cancer! Yeah! Drill baby drill!
So they defunded CDC cuz it was a waste yet this is not a waste?
Anything and everything goes with fascists. Standards mean nothing to then, and if it weren’t for double standards, they’d have none at all. Expect nothing except for the complete destruction of social and government programs that help society at large.
It’s funny how many people that claim to believe that vaccines cause autism out themselves as not truly believing that.
The vast majority of people who parrot the vaccines cause autism bullshit also believe that autistic people should be punished for being autistic, even up to, in RFK Jrs own words: sent to labor camps. It’s not at all logically consistent to believe that autism is caused by an external factor outside of their control but also they need to be brutalized for daring to be autistic. It is, as always, a grift to get money from idiots.
There’s definitely some moms of autism horseshit in there where “I can’t possibly be responsible for my child being autistic, it MUST be something else” is a major driving factor too. Anything to shift the blame away from yourself for failing to take care of your child properly.
Not even that, that idea is driven, deep down, by seeing autistic people as less than human, or at least a less “valuable” human. Don’t mistake it - Moms of Autism types absolutely, deep down, hate their children.
I am well aware, first hand, of what mothers of autistic children think about their autistic children. Fucked me up for decades.
As far as we can tell, these moms are indeed NOT responsible for the autism of their kids. As our society allows to care and accommodate for individuals who may or may not have issues integrating socially, autism is not negatively selected for and therefore individuals affected are only selected against on a sexual level if at all.
That means: These moms blame anything but the chance of their genetics, in consequence believing fascist ideas of a lost golden past that must be achieved again by ousting demonized parts of society.
RFK Jr should launch a personal study into the mechanics of jumping off a bridge.
If he lands on his head he’s liable to bounce back up.
He should do us all a favor and relapse
