WASHINGTON- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his view that toxins in the environment contribute to autism with a series of new studies to investigate the issue as scientists continue to push back on his claims.
Would be hilarious if they discovered the rising rates were due to microplastics in the environment. Deregulation will surely fix that…
No, micro plastics have now been shown to prevent cancer! Yeah! Drill baby drill!
So they defunded CDC cuz it was a waste yet this is not a waste?
Anything and everything goes with fascists. Standards mean nothing to then, and if it weren’t for double standards, they’d have none at all. Expect nothing except for the complete destruction of social and government programs that help society at large.
If he actually believed it, that would be bad. But he doesn’t. He and all his family are vaxxed. That’s much worse. They’re just perpetuating the lie which keeps droves of uninformed idiots voting for them. At the cost of the lives of innocent children. But they won’t lose a night’s sleep over it.
Glad I submitted a freedom of information act request this morning for “ All Microsoft Teams messages, emails, truth social posts/DMs, and twitter posts/DMs by the Secretary of HHS that mention the new form “https://www.hhs.gov/protect-kids/index.html “, or include any of the following words: trans, transgender, vaccine, ADHD, whistleblower, strategy, DOGE, or autism. (Date Range for Record Search: From 01/01/2025 To 12/31/2025)”
I fully expect that this administration to come up with a bullshit way not comply with FoIA requests.
I fully expect the ruling regime and their lieutenants who now control all of these agencies to just issue blanket directives to refuse to comply with FOIA going forward. They’ve already openly and flagrantly refused to comply with Supreme Court rulings. This would be peanuts compared to that.
I submitted ~50 to various agencies after the Musk chainsaw incident. Unfortunately, many of my first requests lacked the necessary specificity. BUT, all of the low level employees were very helpful in making suggestions for remedying that. Most of them have been actively worked (googling myself caused me to see that i made some homeland security meeting minutes with everyone else that submitted to that org lol).
I highly suggest more people submit them because: 1. they are easy, 2. they piss people off (i worked at NASA for a spell), 3. they are fun, 4. they are participating in the civic process, and most importantly 5. the content generated requires review by leaders, which takes away from the time that they can work on other damaging activities. Edit: and 6. If for any reason this administration should stop honoring the FOIA process, that is further validation that it is time to start dumping tea in some harbors.
I’m wondering if there’s a community with enough interested eyeballs on it to have a more focused workshop in.
Government stuff is intimidating to many, but the process can be very simple once broken down.
Rookie move: acting alone.
Pro move: Storming the Bastille with a few thousand of your new best friends.
It’s funny how many people that claim to believe that vaccines cause autism out themselves as not truly believing that.
The vast majority of people who parrot the vaccines cause autism bullshit also believe that autistic people should be punished for being autistic, even up to, in RFK Jrs own words: sent to labor camps. It’s not at all logically consistent to believe that autism is caused by an external factor outside of their control but also they need to be brutalized for daring to be autistic. It is, as always, a grift to get money from idiots.
There’s definitely some moms of autism horseshit in there where “I can’t possibly be responsible for my child being autistic, it MUST be something else” is a major driving factor too. Anything to shift the blame away from yourself for failing to take care of your child properly.
Not even that, that idea is driven, deep down, by seeing autistic people as less than human, or at least a less “valuable” human. Don’t mistake it - Moms of Autism types absolutely, deep down, hate their children.
I am well aware, first hand, of what mothers of autistic children think about their autistic children. Fucked me up for decades.
As far as we can tell, these moms are indeed NOT responsible for the autism of their kids. As our society allows to care and accommodate for individuals who may or may not have issues integrating socially, autism is not negatively selected for and therefore individuals affected are only selected against on a sexual level if at all.
That means: These moms blame anything but the chance of their genetics, in consequence believing fascist ideas of a lost golden past that must be achieved again by ousting demonized parts of society.
“This is coming from an environmental toxin and somebody made it and put that environmental toxin into our air or water or medicines or food,” Kennedy said during the press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services’ headquarters in Washington, D.C.
“And we’ll announce the culprit as soon as the next corporate figure from any of those industries is critical of the Trump administration.”
It’s a communist conspiracy to scare people into thinking the mega corporations just don’t care about them.
toxins…which were pumped into the environment by his republican corporate sponsors. imagine our current administration holding a company responsible for something like this.
“Toxins”.
JFC
“Mentally Disabled Man Falls For Conspiracy Theory”
“Again”
They’ve run plenty of studies on this type of stuff. Promise this “study” will be biased and corrupt with an outcome that matches RFK’s previous ranting.
In right wing world science is jumping to a faith based conclusion and then smashing together a bunch of data from random experiments that looks like something that comes to said conclusion. If something looks to change the conclusion then the process is wrong not the conclusion.
RFK Jr should launch a personal study into the mechanics of jumping off a bridge.
He should do us all a favor and relapse
If he lands on his head he’s liable to bounce back up.
So, they’re shutting down actual research in order to rehash this bullshit for the hundredth time?
Is there any research about hard drugs diminishing mental capacity? Oh there is, interesting!
Am I hearing this right… Toxins released from corporations are to blame so this administration is repealing all environmental protections it can.
So is this some perverse experiment to see if they can cause more suffering or are these people just insufferable twats!?
Didn’t they just declare open season on environmental toxins for oil, coal, AI, whatever? After we already know how bad they are for health, particularly in historically abused minority neighborhoods?
