RFK Jr. claims new research effort will find cause of ‘autism epidemic’ by September

If you know when you'll be done, you already know the answer you'll give.
- It's science! /s
- Now let’s celebrate with some rancid whale meat

Predicting the outcome of a research effort is a sign that he is a fucking idiot.
- This is what happens when you let hyper-religious people with no scientific training do “science.”

It's going to be vaccines. We already know this. They've already made that announcement 1000 times. They just need time until September so they can forge the evidemce, which they will use to ban most vaccines, for most people (rich people will still be able to get vaccines).

Finding a "cause" for the "autism epidemic" is like finding a cause for the shrunken number of planets in our solar system. You're just attacking identifiers and criteria, the existence of the thing remains unchanged.
- the existence of the thing remains unchanged
  I fear they're menacing the existence of people down the line, so there's that.
- Yeah, but it's a lot easier.

Sounds like someone who has absolutely no idea how medical research works. Or science in general.
- "Here's the conclusion I want, now write the rest of the sciency text that's supporting it."
- You're just mad you to have to wait for the new cause to drop.

Which is the biggest joke, them starting a "research" effort, already knowing the outcome, or knowing when it will be completed ahead of time?

- Does feel like the subtext is that autistic people are inherently broken and need to be fixed. Though I wish I could pin down exactly what problem they have with autistic people. A perceived lack of masculine confidence? (I guarantee they don't think about autistic women at all)
  I guess they just see them as easy targets.
  Also, consider not publicly referring to yourself as autistic and learning to mask if you haven't already.
  
  Right wing ideologies depend on attacking minorities to distract from the fact they do nothing to benefit regular people.
  
  who has a problem with autistic people? The self-diagnosed US CEO is autistic and it's just fine.
- Imagine what they could justify if they decide to pretend that autism is contagious
  
  They could even make a vaccine for it! And you know dangerous vaccines are, they can even cause autism!
- it feels like Hans all over again :/
- Like, you mean that people with autism might be negatively-impacted in some way? I haven't been following the whole RFK thing, but from what I have read, I don't think that he's been upset at people with autism or said that being around people with autism is an issue. He's just promoted a really bad take spawned by a claim from Andrew Wakefield that combining certain vaccines rather than taking them separately could cause autism.
  Like, the risk here is that he's going to use his influential position to encourage people to not be vaccinated, and that that is going to cause a lot of deaths and harm from disease when vaccine use falls off.
  
  The idea that vaccines cause autism and therefore we shouldn’t give vaccines inherently implies that autism is a worse scenario than any of the diseases vaccines protect against. We have a measles epidemic killing children, and people would still prefer to not vaccinate because of a fear of autism.
  If people think having a dead child is better than having an autistic child, that doesn’t bode well for autistic folks.
  
  The government is laying the groundwork for reestablishing federal mental institutions while also putting a fresh target on autism. This is manufacturing consent to expand the group of others. First they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak up... You know the poem. The outgroup is ever-growing and it starts when they put you under a microscope
  
  He's talked about forcing people with "mental issues" into "wellness centers" where they "go outside and garden."
  Read: send them to fucking work camps.

All good and well founded research has a definite end date for revealing results.

in other words "we already know the result we will just back it by crafted science"
- I thought that they said research was “woke” and sacked all the scientists, so yeah that would make sense.

This is the same thing as when the first time around they wanted to decrease covid pandemic metrics by halting testing. Which is an idea he got from Putin, who halted HIV/AIDS testing and statistical reporting when it became obvious that their mitigation efforts were absolutely not working (not because it’s an intractable problem, but because they didn’t really care that much, and homosexuals are a big scapegoat group in Russia).

Brain worms. The cause is brain worms.
- Sitting in a bunker, here behind my wall Waiting for the worms to come
  In perfect isolation, here behind my wall Waiting for the worms to come
  "The worms will convene at 1:15 outside Brixton Town Hall where we will be going in force!"

😮‍💨 Great... I guess autism will be at the center of the mext big culture war. Yippee...

no, no, no, RFK, it was this freaking "fascism epidemic" you were supposed to research

If they say marijuana I'm leaving.
- Don’t think the smack addict is going to blame Mary Jane.
  
  https://people.com/rfk-jr-heroin-use-top-of-class-student-8752783
  "I did very, very poorly in school, until I started doing narcotics," Kennedy, 70, said on the podcast. "Then I went to the top of my class because my mind was so restless and turbulent and I could not sit still."
  "It worked for me," he continued of his past heroin use. "And if it still worked, I'd still be doing it."
  rubs eyeballs
  Honestly, I don't even know how The Onion deals with RFK.
  kagis
  https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-orders-removal-of-sinks-from-hhs-bathrooms/
  RFK Jr. Orders Removal Of Sinks From HHS Bathrooms
  WASHINGTON—As part of a sweeping overhaul of the building’s plumbing system, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly ordered the removal of sinks Tuesday from all bathrooms in the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters. “People across the world lived for thousands of years without sinks, and they were just fine—healthier, even,” said Kennedy, who noted that the cuts would not only save taxpayers thousands of dollars in maintenance and water bills each year, but be better for the environment as well.
  Yeah. I kind of feel like The Onion RFK is more-plausible than real life RFK.
  EDIT: By way of completely driving the point home with a sledgehammer:
  https://theonion.com/vaccine-critic-rfk-jr-backs-measles-vaccine-amid-deadly-outbreak/
  Vaccine Critic RFK Jr. Backs Measles Vaccine Amid Deadly Outbreak
  Though he stopped short of urging people to get the shot, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine critic, acknowledged the value of the measles vaccine amid a deadly outbreak in Texas. What do you think?
  
  What's funny is as an asd adult. Cannibis is the only thing that helps manage the noise from the world so I can focus.
- Don’t be ridiculous, it’s clearly the measles vaccines
- It's the entirety of American culture.

It’s probably the prevalence of micro plastics. We’re finding all these other health hazard upticks associated with it so it’s probably causing it too.
- I think a study just came out tying it to gestational diabetes.

"IT IS GENETIC, YOU FUCKING MORON."
Sincerely, Non-morons.
- Don't tell him that, otherwise you'll probably end up with an eugenics program.
  
  You mean the kind the Nazis started with? Killing the "mentally deficient," which included homosexuals?
- Ignorant question: is it decisively genetic? (Like with science I mean)
  
  It's an ongoing debate between genetics, and video games.
  Edit: The video games part was a joke.
  70 - 75% genetic, according to current studies. But that percentage keeps going up over time.
  https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/new-genetic-clues-uncovered-largest-study-families-with

I want to know too. A guy at work was fine, then one day he came down with the autism. Now he does computer nerd stuff.

Sure, bud.

Anything but microplastics I bet
- Certainly not a better understanding of that condition and more accurate testing.

How didn’t they cut all scientific research funding? Is Q going to reveal the truth? Is Q with us now Robert?

Nope, definitely not going to be lead pumped into the atmosphere or water cycle. Nor could it be the active groups freshly invented over the past century by industrial chemistry labs trying to find better refrigerants or organic catalysts. Nor benzene, asbestos, dioxins, or PCBs. And certainly not PERC.
Nor could it be epigentically induced via exposure of parents to these, and many other, pollutants capable of altering genetic code and causing chronic illness, in turn forcing lifestyles and stresses detrimental to health.
Whatever they find, I'm sure all those possibilities will be ruled out. And not because ruling them in would make capitalist profitability decline before the next earnings report.
- Obviously caused by not enough praying.
- I want to know what method these anti-science whack jobs are going to use to determine this cause? If you didn't like all the research the experts did into the underlying causes, WTF you gonna do differently?
  
  Well, there are always healing crystal queries, prophetical epiphanies, 'gut feelings', hunches, data dowsing, straight up making shit up, opinions available for bid to the richest interest, and confirmation bias backed by headlines.

I think the worm controlling whatever is left of this guy's brain is afraid of vaccines.