The United States government will identify the cause of autism by September this year, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday.
“At your direction, we are going to know by September. We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world,” Kennedy said at a meeting of President Donald Trump’s cabinet.
Who’s taking odds on brain worms? Whale head parasites??
Curious to see how this plays out since there is no such epidemic.
I’ve no doubt he’ll find a way to blame vaccines, flouride, whatever environmental substance… 🙄 🙄
Kennedy Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Skeptic for Autism Study
David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/health/rfk-jr-autism-vaccines.html
This comment is to remind everyone that Trump sent a man to prison in El Salvador for having an autism awareness tattoo
Well he does have a tattoo in honor of the actual cause of the autism epidemic /s
But no seriously its horrifying and if you arent pissed that’s a problem
Mr. Kennedy shot back at Mr. Cassidy, citing a study from an ecosystem of vaccine critics that he said proved a connection between vaccines and autism.
This sentence says it all. Even if the study said the opposite, it still wouldn’t “prove” anything. That’s not how science works.
Far-right people really don’t understand what peer review is…
The “problem” conservatives are looking for is just wider awareness of the diagnosis’ existence.
Innumerable people just dropped dead because of diabetes and cancer before we knew about diabetes and cancer, and more still until testing became accessible to most.
Conservative’s solution to anything though is “lalala not listening so shut up!” just like Reagan with aids or conservatives calling Covid Masks tyranny.
if they start “treating” autism the entire US tech industry will fail
I know wealthy european (weirdly free-masonry) parents with autistic kids who insist vaccines caused it.
They’d pay hundreds of thousands to rebrand autism as a ‘vaccine injury’ rather than accept genetic/neurological realities.
So basically he is going to try to blame vaccines and eliminate them to save us from an “epidemic” that surely existed before but we just didn’t have an actual name and diagnosis for autism at the time so people with all sorts of mental disorders that were known and unkown were all lumped together with the common title of “retarded”. Remember this is what they want to return too or just eliminate as undesirables
He’s already said he thinks pesticides and vaccines cause autism and transgenders.
And then denied publicly saying that during his appointment interviews
He didn’t “deny publicly,” he committed perjury, and should be in prison.
Kennedy has long promoted a debunked link between vaccines and autism despite scientific evidence to the contrary.
“We’re going to look at vaccines,” Kennedy later told Fox News.
Fixed. He’ll just blame it on vaccines.
Exactly. He needs until September to forge the evidence.
Trump in February ordered the creation of a “Make America Healthy Again” Commission made up of Kennedy and other secretaries to look at everything from the rates of autism and asthma in children to how much medicine is being prescribed to them for ADHD or other conditions.
Secretary Brainworms and the DSM-5 table of contents administration are going to take a break from their ketamine amphetamine modafinil ozempic etc. regimens to fix all the rest of us, how lovely /s
I’m honestly surprised they haven’t started talking about “curing” homosexuality yet
Let me guess: DEI.
Penn & Teller’s short video on vaccinations should be required viewing for every anti-vax idiot in the land.
Their entire Bullshit is excellent, even if they oversimplify a few things.
I used their show as a source in term papers during my first degree. Specifically in an ethics class
It’s brain worms
OMG I’ve been waiting for this. The cause will be …
Obama.
Thanks, Obama!
There is no testing and research effort planned at the NIH of this scale. I’m betting this is fantasy, or he will outsource to the same scientists who work for RJ Reynolds to “prove” smoking is healthy.
