cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48326364
- Slashed Autism Funding: RFK Jr. promised to identify the causes of autism but has eliminated parts of his agency actively investigating them and has cut millions in funding for autism research.
- Silent on Rollbacks: Once an ardent environmentalist who took on big polluters, RFK Jr. has been silent on Trump’s dismantling of efforts to combat climate change and pollution.
- Conflicting Priorities: RFK Jr. helps lead an administration that is reversing regulations on pollution and chemicals, including some linked to autism.
RFK is an under-educated, born-rich and privelaged dickhead who thinks he is smarter than he is. He’s that guy who walks into a job he has no real understanding of, but he thinks he knows better than everyone else – even though they’re the people who have done the real work and study on the matter. He’s finding out he doesn’t know half as much as he thought he did. If he was actually a decent human being, this would be an extremely stressful situation for him and he’d likely resign. With that being said, he is not a decent human being.
Probably because there’s strong evidence a major environmental cause is Car Tire and break dust microplastics. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4019010/
Can’t say bad thing about the auto industry and industrial oil & gas complex
one poorly analysed underpowered data study is not “strong evidence”. We have had cars, with tires and brake dust for 100 years.
Interesting article! :)
I hate what the fossil fuel and auto industries are doing just as much as the next person, but the article by itself is not strong evidence of a causal relationship, only of an association. Their own conclusion in the abstract is literally: “Exposure to TRP, NO2, PM2.5, and PM10 during pregnancy and the first year of life was associated with autism. Further epidemiological and toxicological examination of likely biological pathways will help determine whether these associations are causal.”
It could for instance be that for some reason, parents with higher autistic traits tend to be less bothered by/concerned about the noise, smell etc from roads. Which could explain differences in parents’ exposure, since autism has such a strong hereditary factor. I’m not saying this is the case, just pointing out one of many possible alternative explanations.
Overall the study can be used to say we have another reason to be cautious and reduce car pollution as fast as possible, IMO. But building weak arguments based on it only makes it easier for corps to defang this type of research.
It could for instance be that for some reason, parents with higher autistic traits tend to be less bothered by/concerned about the noise, smell etc from roads. Which could explain differences in parents’ exposure, since autism has such a strong hereditary factor. I’m not saying this is the case, just pointing out one of many possible alternative explanations… But building weak arguments based on it only makes it easier for corps to defang this type of research.
The irony is very thick.
Once an ardent environmentalist who took on big polluters, RFK Jr. has been silent on Trump’s dismantling of efforts to combat climate change and pollution.
He became the very monster he sought to destroy.
If RFK Sr. was around he would disown this fucking clown. His family has already done it. What a loser! But he fits in with the rest of the idiots who counsel the King Idiot himself. What a world we live in and it’s only because trump has let loose the fools to rampage. F*** em all!
The Kennedy dynasty is weird and admittedly mildly cursed. I do believe they deserve a biography worthy of a royal family for how they have been historically.
Oh the Kennedys have inbreeding too?
I don’t know that yet
The good timeline was the one where Debbie Wasserman Schultz didn’t comit whatever is worse than election fraud and conspire against Bernie Sanders
He’s also a junkie who serves a pedophile
i think RFK is in the files too
Is there any validity behind this? Would love another bullet point to hate him more
RFK has personally benefitted financially from the vaccines - autism misinformation mill. He’s not going to support funding that for the thousandth time proves there’s no link and the increase in autism rates is entirely contained within the now broader spectrum of what we define autism as.
It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It
He understands exactly what he’s doing. Calling people like RFK stupid gives them too much credit.
Believing that he is stupid is less depressing than believing he is malicious and that a plurality of your countrymen voted for malice
You can be both a moron and money hungry. See… everything?
Again, I disagree that RFK is a moron. He’s a highly educated with a BA from Harvard and a master of law. He’s from extraordinary privilege from possibly the most influential and powerful family in modern American history (excluding perhaps the Trumps now). He was a highly successful environmental lawyer who intimately understands politics, economics and psychology.
He cynically uses that power, influence and education to manipulate people, exploit their fears and make himself richer and more powerful.
He’s a sociopath and an amoral cunt but he’s not a moron.
I betcha he must be getting bank from those dozens of snake-oil MLMs trying to get their product sold.
RFK JR supports a pedophile. Reveal the unaltered Epstein files and step down
*arrest the criminals
wish the kennedy curse would stop taking it’s sweet time getting to rfk jr
The curse only kicks off if you add something good to society. His whole life is a joke with no punchline.
When I was a kid I had no understanding of the genius of the band name “The Dead Kennedys”.
Dude is a curse.
You can’t make people afraid of the bogeyman if someone keeps turning on the lights
So he can start with the conclusion and then find the “research” that backs him up.
Relatedly, he also claimed to have concerns about the safety of vaccines (especially MRNA vaccines) and just wanted to get to the bottom of it. So he’s ignoring existing vaccine research and cutting new research.
The words were just window dressing. The right wing does not speak in good faith.
The right wing does not speak in good faith.
Aka fash always lie.
It’s a shame what this loser has done to his father’s name…
He slashed funding to the groups that aren’t getting the answers he wants.
In the near future, new funding will be made available for crackpot organizations that give him the results he wants.
And now we’ll turn over the mic to our assistant secretary for health Jenny McCarthy…
She actually renounced her stand on autism and vaccines. however, I can feel that the return of Andrew Wakefield is imminent. He’s dating Elle MacPherson.
The real damage here is not RFK as much as Trump ending NIH funding. And there is little/no public outcry. 5 years from now, there will be no new drugs (pharma does not actually do basic drug research any more).
I can’t wait for boomers to blame the Democrats
Well yeah cause dems aren’t doing shit but collaborating with fascism and genocide.
US Pharma does plenty of drug research, not nearly as much as advertising mind you. it’s just not anything that’s actually beneficial for the bulk of society.
Most of the drug research that actually produces new, useful treatments is done by universities and government research institutions, (or at least it was before the budget cuts). That research produced with state funding is then bought for pennies on the dollar by big pharma who does the last couple steps and reaps all of the financial rewards.
The NIH and CDC would be fully funded in perpetuity (along with many research institutions and universities) if they got paid even a fraction of the profits for their foundational research.
This is just virtue signalling for his brainworm, and the bigots who voted his orange overlord in
