In remarks laced with scientific inaccuracies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said on Wednesday that autism was preventable while directly contradicting researchers within his own agency on a primary driver behind rising rates of the condition in young children.
“Autism is preventable”- says the guy with a brain worm.
Stupidity is preventable.
Ignorance is preventable. Stupidity is assigned at birth.
Please, you leather-faced ghoul, show your work and prevent any future cases of autism.
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Abort all the babies! No autism ever again!
I can entirely believe they take the eugenics implications of this and run with it.
This is the Republican modus operandi:
“This is the fantasy we want to believe. And if the facts do not support our fantasy, we will accuse you of lying to us and call for your death.”
How people can consider even a regular man a guy so blatantly and obviously and clearly stupid and ignorant?
Since autism is preventable, does that mean we’re going to exile autistic children and their mothers for playing part in some sort of crime? Since we’re going full-scale Nazi, it only makes sense for RFKJ to follow in the footsteps of Mengele.
I’m certain one of America’s And then they came for… moments will be for people with “full-blown autism.”
Actually the Nazis identified autism and they were given jobs in intelligence.
RFK already floated the idea of work camps for autistic and ADHD kids.
You’ve finally done it maga. You’ve made me sob. What hurtful things to say about me and my son
There is a way to prevent having a child with Autism and it’s absolutely fool proof. Just don’t have kids. Boom, you’ve prevented a kid from having Autism.
That’s the poor man’s solution. If you’re rich and famous like Elon Musk, you can IVF away the undesirable traits like neurodiverge or the presence of an X chromosome where there must be a Y instead /s
RFK was, and still is, preventable.
Brain worms are also preventable, you dung heap. Yet, you fucked that up.
He should just go back to injecting copious amounts of heroin and peeing his pants. Pathetic fucking loser that he is.
I mean, technically? If all your kids get sick and die, congratulations! You prevented them from getting autism!
You know why autism rates have “increased”?
Because we understand a lot more about the condition now, and are a whole fucking lot better at determining whether a person may be on the spectrum or not - a “spectrum” that, I should add, is a whole fucking lot more nuanced and less binary than the “he’s a good worker” vs “let’s hold Timmy back a couple grades” dichotomy that you would have seen up through the late 90s and early 2000s.
By some estimates, 20% of the population is expected to be neurodivergent in one way or another. Autism and ADHD are wildly underdiagnosed to this day. Especially for AFAB people.
and its also genetic, and not organically caused by chemicals.
Also because preventative factors like obesity, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, etc are strongly linked to having an autistic child
Sure. But the fact remains that autism prevalence in the general population probably looks a lot like the graph about left-handedness of the population throughout the 1900s - that is, logistic growth: growing, but settling towards a relatively steady percentage of the population. Btw, if anyone has a graph of that handy, please post it.
