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.
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
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.
So he can start with the conclusion and then find the “research” that backs him up.
You can’t make people afraid of the bogeyman if someone keeps turning on the lights
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.
It’s a shame what this loser has done to his father’s name…
Honest question to US citizens: why are so many people so obsessed with autism at yours? 🧐
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
He already “knows” what it is. It’s been a shame from the start he doesn’t give af
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.
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.
“They say his father was a great man, he must be what’s left.”
wish the kennedy curse would stop taking it’s sweet time getting to rfk jr
Dude is a curse.
When I was a kid I had no understanding of the genius of the band name “The Dead Kennedys”.
The curse only kicks off if you add something good to society. His whole life is a joke with no punchline.
Gotta be a dummy to believe anything that fash say.
