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RFK Jr. set to launch disease registry tracking autistic people
(newrepublic.com)
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He's a cunt with half a brain, he's the new Mengele. His delusions have already killed people, I don't believe in his supposed good intentions.
I believe it's more likely that they (this administration, obviously) would change the meaning of the term "autistic" to mean any unwanted person. Basically, the Autist would become the new Jew under Trump's regime.
Autism has a genetic origin. Even with today's gene therapy techniques, it would not be possible to alter the already formed brains of adults so that they would not be autistic.
The simplest way to eliminate autism in the population would be to identify all autistic individuals and sterilize them or to genetically modify the zygotes or embryos of autistic individuals, but these, especially the first, have serious ethical implications and completely violate individual freedom. All this not to mention that we would be destroying part of the diversity of Humanity's genotype, which could even have long term consequences that are difficult to predict.
I'd assumed it was something when you're a fetus, not a fully formed brain. Would that be impossible as well do you figure?