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.
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
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.
one poorly analysed underpowered data study is not “strong evidence”. We have had cars, with tires and brake dust for 100 years.
not at this scale, size, weight and greater than ever use
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.
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.
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
RFK jr is plagued with an unknown illness. That shit river is more qualified to run the CDC.
Yes, America has a health and food issue. However this guy is as close to solving it as JD Vance is to solving his wife’s pussy.
You can’t make people afraid of the bogeyman if someone keeps turning on the lights
It’s a shame what this loser has done to his father’s name…
So he can start with the conclusion and then find the “research” that backs him up.
The environmental cause is not going to church. Just wait he is gonna prove that. /s
Well, I did only got diagnosed with autism after I stopped going to church…
In my experience when someone says some variation of ‘we don’t believe in that’ about mental health treatment. They are either a clueless victim of a narcissist or they are a narcissist. Many narcissist end up a preacher/god botherer. A narcissist fears mental health treatment more than they fear death. They don’t want their victims to get it either. Since it will expose them. They say things like ‘They always blame X’ X being the narc or the narcs fud.
Plague Carrier Kennedy is a religious whack job who is functionally the Disease variant of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. He is as close a thing Christians have to a living Antichrist as exists IRL.
Pretty sure tRump would be the antichrist.
Down to the head wound and everything, this is why I think simulation theory has weight. Revelations was written about contemporary politics of the day, yet we are now getting an odd accounting of it, reality itself seems to be acting different than it did a decade ago. This is the point in the game where they just add crazy shit to see what happens (he’s a child rapist but that makes him more popular)
tRump
Ah, this I like. Lately I’m finding it difficult to bother pressing the shift key when I type his name. It just seems to show a tiny modicum of respect and I don’t want that.
He’s got the head wound. Anyone see The Omega Code?
He already “knows” what it is. It’s been a shame from the start he doesn’t give af
It’s all a theater play with them, they’re dumb but only in a very myopic understanding of intelligence. They’d managed not just to outwit, but to run circles around half the population of the US.
Exactly, if he wanted to achieve half of his goals for the food supply, the only solution is a shitload of regulation. I’m sure the Republicans will jump all over that.
“They say his father was a great man, he must be what’s left.”
Honest question to US citizens: why are so many people so obsessed with autism at yours? 🧐
To be fair, Brainworm K Jr. doesn’t need research funding to produce a paper identifying the environmental cause of Autism by citing stormfront.
