If they had actually discovered a cause of autism, or even substantially advanced research in that area they would have announced it right away, rather than engaging in this hype cycle bs like they are trying to defraud a venture capitalist.
More to the point, we already know the cause of autism; genetics. This isn’t new, it’s not some shocking discovery, it’s been known about for ages. Most of the research at this point is focused on the interconnections between autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dysphraxia, which all show a high propensity for genetic clustering; basically if one person in a family has one of them, the odds of the others being present in the same or other members shoots up massively. That’s really interesting and suggests they might all just be different manifestations of the same underlying genetic condition.
The whole notion that autism has a “cause” is just anti-vaxxer nonsense concocted by a fraud doctor (that’s not an accusation, it’s a fact; he was stripped of his medical license after it was shown that his “research” was a sham, and that he literally tortured innocent children to concoct his fake results) feeding on the insecurities of parents who want someone to blame for their child being different rather than just accepting that sometimes that’s just how people do be.
Hey hey, it is still possible that there are environmental factors that make the genetic causes more or less likely to result in full autism. Kennedy certainly hasn’t found any of those though.
A lot of the symptoms of that cluster are actually maladaptations. Our brains try and solve 1 problem, but create 2 more. In solving those, it makes even more. It’s part of the reason that they manifest so differently in different people.
The autistics yearn for the concentration camp - RFK probably
They announced they’d be announcing this last spring. I’m just going to copypasta what I wrote on my Facebook at the time, because I was pretty happy with it to be honest
Humor me for a minute. Let’s pretend that HHS promised the cause of type I diabetes by September. This has been researched for years, and suddenly they’re going to have the cause pinpointed? And without knowing what that cause is (much less how or even if it could be prevented) they’re also promising to say how it could be prevented. Seems kinda unrealistic at best, yeah?
Now let’s go back to what’s actually being attempted: “finding” the cause of autism. Same thing, except it’s being lead by a guy who has been drinking the conspiracy-flavored Kool Aid for years. You would have a hard time convincing me that 1) after years of research, they will have a definitive and final cause in about 6 months, 2) this will be directed with the neutrality needed for proper research, and 3) of all the many many diseases we have in this country, autism just so happens to be the one that needs that immediate attention.
This guy is a professional moron, his father would be appalled
As with any great modern scientific discovery, nothing is shared, or can be guessed from existing evidence, until the great reveal!
Imagine an ignorant like RFK Jr telling the world for the first time the cause of autism 🤯
It’s probably him.
It was me, I did it. I caused autism.
I’m ready to accept blame for my acts.
But I stand by what I did.
I guarantee that they bring up “woke”
“We have found that autism is caused by woke”
What I expect is that he will try to push the “we need to reserve the autism label for low functioning boys”, Trump will sign an executive order titled “Restoring the Integrity of Autism Diagnosis act”, with a lot of other disgusting caveats, like forcing a “cure” (read: beating) on the higher functioning ones for acting weird, and also push the “extreme female brain theory of Borderline Personality Disorder” angle of female autism.
Woke vaccines, I knew it all along!
During the Cabinet meeting, Kennedy pointed to his oft-repeated evidence of environmental factors contributing to autism rates, noting how diagnosis rates have significantly jumped since the 1970s.
Lol yeah no shit. Medicine has improved a lot since the 70s. We can more easily diagnose the behaviour, so naturally the number of case going to go up.
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Aside from politics, do scientists actually know what causes autism? Sorry if this question is ignorant, but I have no clue about that.
There are many theories, but nothing really replicable. Genetics definitely play a role, and air pollution is implicated pretty heavily, but we don’t have a “do this and you get autism” yet. There could be more than one cause, too - biology is messy.
besides having sex with your mom?
Pregnancy, final answer.
I’m placing my bet they claim something like “testing for autism causing autism”… they’ll ban the tests. Problem “solved”!
