RFK Jr. Says We'll Soon Know What's Fueling The 'Autism Epidemic' -- And His Prediction Is Absolutely Wild

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared in April that “by September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic,” setting a timeline of five months for identifying the growth of a disorder that has been heavily researched for decades across the globe.

“We are going to know by September,” Kennedy declared at a Trump Cabinet meeting, while crediting this forecast to his launch of a federal study that he reportedly tapped a fellow vaccine skeptic to oversee. “We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world. By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures.”

Kennedy, a prolific vaccine skeptic who along with President Donald Trump has spread widely disproven claims that the shots are linked to autism, went on to stress that autism rates are rising in the U.S., with about 1 in 31 children diagnosed today, as opposed to 1 in 10,000 “when I was a kid.”

Medical experts have primarily attributed this increase to improved diagnostic capabilities, a broadened definition of autism and increased awareness. Researchers believe there is no single cause of autism but that a combination of factors, including genetics, plays a role, as the National Institutes of Health explains on its website.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-says-well-soon-120020390.html

Brain worms!!!! That got to be the cause.

[Ocelot II]

1. It's rock 'n' roll.

Or too-early toilet training.
Or exposure to synthetic fabrics.
Or chemtrails.

[sakabatou]

2. I mean, it's not like testing methods have gotten better over time

Oh wait...

Before I was correctly diagnosed, I was diagnosed with acute anxiety disorder.

[Autumn]

3. Let me guess. Breathing causes autism? Eating? Drinking water? Just

whatever that old fool pulls out of his ass.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. When RFKjr was a kid, what we now consider autism did not exist

Autism was considered a childhood form of schizophrenia, rather than the distinct and separate spectrum of developmental disorders it is considered today.

What a dope.

[Ocelot II]

10. I'm about RFKJR's age. When I was a kid there was a boy in my neighborhood who we later realized

must have been autistic. At the time (about 1960) people just said he was "retarded," and you couldn't carry on a normal conversation with him, but he was able to play the piano and could tell you for any date at all what day of the week it fell on, and he had some other odd math-related abilities. I don't know what happened to him - his mother died when he was about 14, so in those days he probably would have been institutionalized. I never even heard the term autism until at least 20 years after that.

[Skittles]

14. in the 60's my severely autistic brother was diagnosed as "emotionally disturbed"

yup

[lonely bird]

5. Sigh

He is ignorant and arrogant.

Fucking dilettante.

[llmart]

7. Ignorant and arrogant

Two of the qualities required to work for the Ignorant and Arrogant Criminal in Chief.

[mucifer]

8. he's evil

[Takket]

6. I love how he says this stuff like he's the first person to ever think "hey maybe we should research this!"

what he has is a conclusion around which he will build a false "proof" from a bunch of made up "scientists"

and the media will report it like it is a legitimate thing we should listen to, while ACTUAL researchers are jumping up and down begging for a slot on the camera

[struggle4progress]

9. A little learning is a dangerous thing ;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts,
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts ;
While from the bounded level of our mind
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind,
But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise
New distant scenes of endless science rise !
So pleased at first the towering Alps we try,
Mount o’er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ;
The eternal snows appear already past,
And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ;
But those attained, we tremble to survey
The growing labours of the lengthened way ;
The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes,
Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise !

https://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Pope/a_little_learning.htm

[Hekate]

18. Alexander Pope says it well. RobK took his young family members swimming in a severely polluted spring...

…about as far from the Pierian Spring as you can get. RobK is unbelievably stupid, a trait you have to really work at to attain.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Gosh, when you don't rely on any scientific methodology, the conclusion can be anything.

My money is on organic popsicles.

[Initech]

12. We have a deranged psychopath in charge of public health. WTF.

[mackdaddy]

13. Some credible studies are showing a link between microplastic exposure pre/post natal and Autism.

Of course this is not what the anti-vax'ers want to hear. Both studies are before RFK fired everyone competent.

Pre/post-natal exposure to microplastic as a potential risk factor for autism spectrum disorder

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35134716/

Common plastic packaging material linked to increased risk of autism in boys
Boys exposed to bisphenol A more likely to show autism symptoms by age two and six times more likely to be diagnosed with condition by age 11

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/autism-bisphenol-a-bpa-link-plastic-health-b2593246.html

[LudwigPastorius]

15. "by September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic,"

No.

No we won't.

[Grokenstein]

17. "Two months" is going to become the new "two weeks."

[dalton99a]

16. We have a profoundly stupid ghoul in charge of our health system