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CDC officials’ resignation emails
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- CamperBob2 1y agoThe good news, at least, is that next week there's a chance we'll finally get to the bottom of the whole autism thing! https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-claims-we-maybe-know-the-cause-of-autism-teases-september-announcement https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-claims-we-... Seriously. If you voted for this, you owe civilization a debt that you will probably never be wealthy enough or long-lived enough to repay.
- pplante 1y agoAs an autistic person with 3 kids with ASD, I get triggered by this bullshit nearly daily. I sincerely hope that whatever "reveal" they have planned does not further harm our ability to access the early interventions that my kids are benefiting from.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoIt will be nothing. He has already made it clear he doesn't even know what autism is.
- CamperBob2 1y agoHe doesn't know what tariffs are, either, but did that stop him?
- ants_everywhere 1y agoRFK I meant. From comments he's made it's clear he thinks autism refers to being nonverbal or similar. But sure yes I'm sure Trump doesn't the understand it either.Heck tons of practicing therapists don't even understand it.
- crooked-v 1y agoI think it's more likely that it will be used as an excuse to actively harm and oppress autistic people and anyone else they can use pseudoscience to try to label as 'damaged' or 'unnatural', rather than merely taking away existing aid.
- Insanity 1y agoNot to be pessimistic, but I’m pretty sure that whatever they do will do more harm than good, given how much of a hot mess the current administration is.
- morkalork 1y agoWelp, better hope they don't decide it's a heritable condition that can only be solved via sterilization programs! Because that has absolutely happened before in North America.
- enjeyw 1y agoI have no reasonable theory as to how Trump/RFK will be able to reveal credible information about Autism that wasn’t already available from public research papers.
- dataflow 1y agoIf it's not credible, at least it will be incredible.
- CamperBob2 1y agoYou don't say.
- adastra22 1y agoI believe he was being sarcastic, although tone is hard to read online.
- enjeyw 1y agoYeah on re-read I think you’re right. Though who knows in this day and age!
- ornornor 1y agoIt’s hard to believe how much closer to Idiocracy the US is getting every day. I love how they quoted what RFK and Trump have said in the article to show how devoid of any substance any of that is.
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- CamperBob2 1y agoprobably shouldn't have pushed equally retarded rhetoric leading up to his most recent election. Really? About the only comparable example I can think of was the Democrats' assurance that Biden was still fit to serve. Sure, they should have ditched him much earlier -- that much seems obvious -- but what "equally retarded rhetoric" can you stack up against "They're eating the dogs?" A voter could justify an assumption that Biden was still a viable candidate simply because they hadn't been told otherwise by those in a position to know. But you actually had to be stupid to fall for "They're eating the dogs," along with countless other Trump lies backed by zero evidence. It was a simple exercise in pattern recognition. No one who failed that exercise in 2024 should be allowed to vote in 2028. But of course, we have Trump's word that the matter is moot, given that voting won't be necessary.
- vkou 1y agoIt's a crying shame that given the choice, the voters picked the modern-day equivalent of Lysenkoism[1]. [1] Which due to the timing of its adoption and abandonment did avoid outright causing famines in the Soviet Union... And went on to kill tens of millions of people in China.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoOne of the many parallels of this administration with communism
- CamperBob2 1y agoNo kidding. Can you imagine how conservatives would have reacted if the banners going up around DC[1] had Obama's face on them? 1: https://bsky.app/profile/donmoyn.bsky.social/post/3lxfamzutks2j https://bsky.app/profile/donmoyn.bsky.social/post/3lxfamzutk...
- dralley 1y agoMAGA Maoism https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/08/maga-maoism-tariffs-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/08/maga-maoi...
- morkalork 1y agoAnd this was written before the USA took a 10% stake in Intel, turning it into a Chinese style state-owned enterprise!
- CompoundEyes 1y agoNow they can demand that Intel investigate internal “waste fraud and abuse” since it’s partially owned by the government. It goes from “the government should run more like a business” to the government telling businesses “run more like the government running more like a business”
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- Esophagus4 1y agoI hope these people are able to find other ways to protect the public from disease, even if not at CDC. I respect their decisions, but our country deeply needs scientists so committed to the Hippocratic oath that they’d rather resign than contribute to endangering public safety. Those who do not seek power are most fit to hold it. I have nothing really to say other than this is saddening to read.
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- throwawaymaths 1y agoRemember when the CDC started tracking gun violence as an "epidemic"? Surely someone should but the CDC doing so is clearly outside of its charter. That was one major moment that betrayed the CDC becoming a political and not a scientific organization
- ceejayoz 1y agoHelp me understand how gunshot wounds have nothing to do with public health? They study the other common forms of death/injury. If anything, giving guns a special exemption from scrutiny is the political move.
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- throwawaymaths 1y agoPlenty of other organizations public and private already handling this issue. No need to waste funds on it. Anything less is a dangerous distraction for the CDC which really needs to focus on its core competency -- protecting the us from pathogenic threats. Should the department of HUD send rockets to space? Of course not.
- ceejayoz 1y ago> Plenty of other organizations public and private already handling this issue. So? We have more than one law enforcement agency, too. > Should the department of HUD send rockets to space? Of course not. Should the department of Health touch on a major health issue? Of course.
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- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoWhatever this condition is is much worse than long covid.
- CamperBob2 1y agoCall it "Long Stupid."
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- toastercat 1y agoThe CDC is and always has been unable to force anyone to get a vaccine. You might be confusing the CDC with your elementary school principal.
- wakawaka28 1y agoThe CDC is not blameless when it comes to Biden's failed attempt to force everyone to get vaccinated. They were in fact encouraging it.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoForce?
- hollerith 1y agoHere is what Gemini says: >On August 24, 2021, then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a memorandum requiring all U.S. armed forces members to get the COVID-19 vaccine. This policy, which was supported by then-President Joe Biden, led to the discharge of thousands of service members who refused the vaccine. >It's important to note that a dishonorable discharge is a specific type of punishment that can only be issued after a court-martial for serious offenses. While some sources claimed that the Biden administration ordered dishonorable discharges for those who refused the vaccine, this was not the case. The President does not have the authority to issue such an order, and the military services themselves handled disciplinary actions. >The military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate was rescinded in January 2023 after Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which directed the Department of Defense to end the mandate.
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- CMay 1y agoIs this about the upcoming reveal of the autism findings, or is the article just feeding that as the cause? I thought the understanding for base rates of autism was that people are living longer and starting their lives later. Becoming financially stable later, having children later. Having children later rather than earlier significantly increased the risk of autism. After that then the question becomes about intensity of autistic symptoms, where the base rate of autistic children makes sense given the data, but the intensity and thus increased likelihood of seeking diagnosis may be increasing as a second factor which sits on top of expanded diagnosis standards. For intensity, there are suggestions that maybe obesity, plastics/chemicals could be contributing, but it sounded like there wasn't enough data on it. I'm not sure what other answer they found. RFK has said he doesn't think people should follow his personal health advice. He knows he's neither a scientist or a doctor and supposedly there was some team of scientists working on it. I'm not prejudging that they can't have arrived at some useful result, but it's obviously very politicized.
- magicalist 1y ago> Is this about the upcoming reveal of the autism findings, or is the article just feeding that as the cause? No, it's almost certainly about vaccine science and recommendations. Hence all the other resignations today. (though who knows, maybe RFKjr will really go for it and bring back full-throated vaccines==autism next week)
- mnode 1y agoBase rates going up isn't fully understood but a large part is likely just changes to diagnosis. There's a recent summary of research evidence here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02636-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02636-1
- kevlened 1y agoScience Vs just explored the rise in autism [0]. Maureen Durkin, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, just presented a paper [1] (currently in peer review) studying 8 year olds from 2000 to 2016, categorizing and counting autism severity over time. The most severe cases were unchanged, or decreased, and the largest change was in those with no measurable functional limitations. This unpublished paper suggests that identification of children with milder symptoms is the strongest driver. [0] https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/autism-the-real-reason-its-going-up/id1051557000?i=1000713545566 https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/autism-the-real-reason... [1] "Trends in the Prevalence of Autism By Adaptive Level between 2000-2016: Evidence from a Population-Based Sample of 8-Year-Old Children in the United States" S. M. Furnier and M. S. Durkin
- beefnugs 1y agoI think more important than most of the specifics here is how Dump is choosing government appointees: Someone who is terrible at whatever job they are given, and the public proclamation that "no one should take my advice" is an acceptable statement. Wouldn't it be better that he at least says shit like, "as we ramp up militarization, killing and removing all the foreigners will get less germs in the air, aheeyuk" Like he is trying at a bare minimum brain level at the job?
- Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 1y agoIf I was a foreign state asset that somehow became the US president, I don't really know how I could hurt the US's leadership more than what's happening right now. In that light, each move Trump is doing is quite brilliant.
- zevon 1y agoIt's so sad to see these attacks on institions that are intended to save lives and cure horrible diseases. Many moons ago, during civil service and volunteer work with kids, I've occasionally been confronted with parents who were anti-vaccination or followed some esoteric stance on medicine. When the anger faded away, those days always made me so very sad and frustrated that the only thing you apparently can do is play the very long game of education and somehow try to keep up hope for a more enlightened future.
- Guid_NewGuid 1y agoWorth reiterating since the phrase "attacks on institutions" more usually implies bureaucratic maneuvers. These people have incited actual murderous gun attacks: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0y796qqp9o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0y796qqp9o
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- BrandoElFollito 1y agoI am really glad to be French and live in France. We have plenty of problems, some serious, some not, some easy to solve, some not. But at least I have faith that if I get sick I will be able to afford it and that we will sustain this perk. We also have a reasonable pride with education do there is hope we will still have educated people as we go on. My real great is that economic pressure from the US and China will force us off these tracks. Or a war.