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RFK Jr. Promises to Reveal the 'Cause' of Autism Next Month
- Insanity 1y agoI would laugh about the current state of US government if it wasn’t so sad.
- pstuart 1y agoIt's surreal watching the collapse from the inside. Part of me is at the point of "fine! you all get what you deserve", but then I think of my kids and the others, future generations getting completely fucked for no fault of their own.
- Insanity 1y agoYeah, I have a strange kind of fascination with it. I read a lot about the Roman republic, it's rise and demise, and it feels like living through the fall of another 'empire'. Writings were on the wall for the Roman republic for a long tine before it happened. Same with the US today.
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoWell, if history rhymes, I'd guess we're about at Sulla.
- senectus1 1y agoI get really annoyed with the constant comparison with the "Fall of Rome". This is not the same thing. This is a concerted attack from within, these people are deliberately dismantling a democratic society for personal profit.
- Insanity 1y agoDo you mean fall of Rome (empire) or fall of Rome (republic)? Fall of Rome’s republic was deliberate and for personal gain / profit. Edit: And I’m not saying it’s a one-to-one comparison, like a bad sequel film.. I’m saying that it’s comparable at a layer of abstraction. The fall of two large “empires” with a ton of influence on the world.
- senectus1 1y agofair point.
- IAmGraydon 1y agoIt’s really not. It’s blatantly wrong, actually. Money did not motivate the fall of the Republic. Literally reading even the most basic text on the period would make this obvious.
- IAmGraydon 1y agoHow do you think this compares to the fall of the Roman Republic? With all due respect, I would argue that your line of thinking tells me that you don’t really read about the Roman Republic, or at least don’t understand what was happening at the time. The political disfunction, powerful military figures, extreme wealth divide, and the dynamic of the First Triumvirate all make what the US is going through today look downright civilized. The sheer amount of turmoil made the people in Rome desperate for authoritarianism. The rise of Roman Empire is what they wanted, and what they got. This is the same dynamic that unfolded in 1930s Germany. I do not at all believe that most people in the US want an actual authoritarian. Trump may think he can implement authoritarianism, but I suspect he will find out just how misguided he is if he truly pushes it.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoIt is so frustrating. Even if these idiots disappear tomorrow, it will take decades to recover. Why go into science/government to make a positive difference if you know the next hate-filled administration could end your career for some cheap political wins?
- Insanity 1y agoHonestly I think people don't talk about this long-term impact often enough, and you're 100% right. It's not just the impact today - it's the future state. What used to be a job with 'security' is now a lower-security and often lower-pay job.
- mwpmaybe 1y agoThe only people who will work for the government are the people who know they can abuse and personally profit from it.
- pstuart 1y agoThere's plenty that want to do the right thing for the right reasons, but this admin is not the place for that. If we ever recover from this fiasco, we're going to have to do some serious reckoning of how to avoid it in the future.
- truro 1y ago[dead]
- complianceowl 1y ago[flagged]
- kulahan 1y ago"How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." -Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum speech, 27 Jan, 1838
- treetalker 1y ago“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. “Against stupidity we are defenseless. “Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.” — D. Bonhoeffer
- damnesian 1y agoTurning it into this big media circus is beyond the pale.
- sottol 1y agoAcetaminophen/Tylenol? Nah, it's more palatable to blame the vaccines than give up those sweet pain-killers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008733
- mulletbum 1y agoConsidering it is basically the only over-the-counter pain med allowed during pregnancy, I think we will learn that this government doesn't understand the difference between causation and correlation.
- JohnFen 1y agoTylenol causes pregnancy! Since they seem to be so worried about fertility rates, maybe Tylenol use will be made mandatory.
- exogeny 1y agoWe truly live in the dumbest timeline.
- bamboozled 1y agoIt’s destructive, it’s by design, not dumb
- thephyber 1y agoI think that’s the fitness function of the Trump admin, but not the fitness function of RFK Jr who has been chasing this for decades. He clearly cares more about simple narratives than any factual truth.
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- stanski 1y agoMy guess is Jerome Powell.
- slowmovintarget 1y agoHe's going to say it's 5G, isn't he? Please don't say it's 5G. heavy sigh
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoCan we take bets on Obama in a ghost mask a la Scooby Doo?
- tzs 1y agoA better bet is WiFi. He's complained at least as much about WiFi danger as he has about 5G, and WiFi is much more widespread and also 20 years older than 5G. Its availability to the public and growth correlates a lot better with the rise in autism rates.
- rasz 1y agowindmills
- Incipient 1y agoNaa this guy prefers tilting at other things.
- Varelion 1y agoYou imbecile — it was the emails!
- treetalker 1y ago"'clearly almost certainly'" !
- jgeada 1y agoIt is the worms in the brain, isn't it?
- avgDev 1y agoThe cause is......democrats! I am kidding but I doubt he knows the cause, it is a complex issue.
- thephyber 1y agoYou and I know that it’s a complex issue which probably has a complicated mix of genetic and several environmental factors. But RFK Jr doesn’t seem to care about facts or truth or objective reality as much as he cares about pushing a simple narrative. In his narrative-driven reality, there is nothing which can’t be blamed, including Democrats.
- hmmokidk 1y agoLmao
- JohnFen 1y agoNo, he won't. He'll just spout more of his usual bullshit.
- thephyber 1y agoI’m not so sure. The timeline he set for himself was artificial. His assertion that it was for sure caused by environmental factors and his department could find it in a few months was artificial. His team clearly used AI (without reasoning features and without ensemble challenges) to write public documents, leaving the hallucinated research footnotes in the document. He clearly doesn’t care about accuracy precision or truth, so he very well may announce some cause in September. I’m sure his _Children’s Defense Fund_ has their own “research” which draws conclusions that he will most likely crib from.
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- CoastalCoder 1y agoIf he already knows, but is delaying telling us, then what should he say to the future individuals who are only autistic because of that delay? I'm struggling to think of any legitimate reason for not telling us right now.
- fallinghawks 1y agoTrump has a trope about saying he'll have a big announcement or deal with something "in 2 weeks" -- something that sounds lofty but the delay is long enough for it to pass out of the news cycle. I think RFK is doing the same here.
- b33j0r 1y agoThe primary cause of reported disease is diagnosis, so maybe they’ll do something about that.
- fallinghawks 1y agoAir pollution [1] but since things like pollution and climate change are too woke, I'm sure RFKJr will have a different reason. [1] https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-pollution-linked-with-increased-risk-of-autism-in-children/ https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-pollution-linked-with-incr...
- RobLach 1y agoIt’s impossible for me to think of what purpose taking this deliberate misinformation effort to this extent can have. I can only consider that this is a purposeful attack on the American people and government credibility from the top. And if so, how could someone be so influenced to follow it through? Is it just a personal hatred of Americans justifying harm to them?
- DemocracyFTW2 1y agoI'm happy to see this woke liberal BS flagged /s
- jaybrendansmith 1y agoLet me guess: The aluminum found in vaccines. Of Course. Why didn't we think of that? It only took an addled, evil, brain-wormed, drug-infested moron to point it out. Never mind there are 1000s of clinical studies showing no impacts. THOUSANDS. We should print out all that evidence, put it in 300 page volumes, enclose them in binders with ribbons, box them up, and drop it from an airplane onto his house!
- jauntywundrkind 1y agoList of people who have just left the CDC: Director, office of public health data, Jennifer Layden Director of the National Center for Emerging Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Daniel Jernigan Chief Medical Officer Deb Houry Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Demetre Daskalakis Director Monarez. What bold does reality & truth have these days. A revolt against reason, a revolt against truth, a revolt against a nation. This whole era has seen the rise of such a vicious enemy against the world. #HostisHumaniGeneris (Some of these may be semi coincidental to what's coming next, but it's all part of the same insurrection against science.)
- amai 1y agoBefore or after the release of the Epstein files?
- rich_sasha 1y agoLet's go for a double: peace Nobel prize for Trump and medicine for RFK.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoScientifically-illiterate environmental lawyers should stay in their lane. And by "lawyers", I only mean RFK Jr.
- JohnTHaller 1y agoArticle link in case it's taken down: https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-promises-to-reveal-the-cause-of-autism-next-month-2000648934 https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-promises-to-reveal-the-cause-of-a...
- jmye 1y agoClown show administration for a clown show country. Voters getting exactly the reality TV show they wanted. Where are all the folks who voted for this? Why aren’t you cheering?