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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.
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[-] canajac@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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!

[-] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Oh the Kennedys have inbreeding too?

[-] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I don't know that yet

[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

The good timeline was the one where Debbie Wasserman Schultz didn't comit whatever is worse than election fraud and conspire against Bernie Sanders

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

So he can start with the conclusion and then find the “research” that backs him up.

[-] banause@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago

Honest question to US citizens: why are so many people so obsessed with autism at yours? 🧐

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Gotta be a dummy to believe anything that fash say.

[-] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] prole 7 points 9 hours ago

It's a shame what this loser has done to his father's name...

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 7 points 10 hours ago

You can't make people afraid of the bogeyman if someone keeps turning on the lights

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

He already “knows” what it is. It’s been a shame from the start he doesn’t give af

[-] staph@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 hours ago

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.

[-] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 hours ago

“They say his father was a great man, he must be what’s left.”

[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 31 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] datalowe@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

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.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

wish the kennedy curse would stop taking it's sweet time getting to rfk jr

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Dude is a curse.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

When I was a kid I had no understanding of the genius of the band name "The Dead Kennedys".

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 23 hours ago

The curse only kicks off if you add something good to society. His whole life is a joke with no punchline.

[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 55 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I betcha he must be getting bank from those dozens of snake-oil MLMs trying to get their product sold.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It

[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago

He understands exactly what he's doing. Calling people like RFK stupid gives them too much credit.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Believing that he is stupid is less depressing than believing he is malicious and that a plurality of your countrymen voted for malice

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[-] Marshezezz 61 points 1 day ago

He’s also a junkie who serves a pedophile

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago

i think RFK is in the files too

[-] happydoors@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Is there any validity behind this? Would love another bullet point to hate him more

[-] birdwing 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

RFK JR supports a pedophile. Reveal the unaltered Epstein files and step down

[-] Tedesche@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Plague Carrier Kennedy is a religious whack job who is functionally the Disease variant of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. He is as close a thing Christians have to a living Antichrist as exists IRL.

[-] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Pretty sure tRump would be the antichrist.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

tRump

Ah, this I like. Lately I'm finding it difficult to bother pressing the shift key when I type his name. It just seems to show a tiny modicum of respect and I don't want that.

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[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 23 hours ago

RFK jr is plagued with an unknown illness. That shit river is more qualified to run the CDC.

Yes, America has a health and food issue. However this guy is as close to solving it as JD Vance is to solving his wife's pussy.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Relatedly, he also claimed to have concerns about the safety of vaccines (especially MRNA vaccines) and just wanted to get to the bottom of it. So he's ignoring existing vaccine research and cutting new research.

The words were just window dressing. The right wing does not speak in good faith.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

The right wing does not speak in good faith.

Aka fash always lie.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

The real damage here is not RFK as much as Trump ending NIH funding. And there is little/no public outcry. 5 years from now, there will be no new drugs (pharma does not actually do basic drug research any more).

[-] prole 2 points 9 hours ago

I can't wait for boomers to blame the Democrats

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Well yeah cause dems aren't doing shit but collaborating with fascism and genocide.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

US Pharma does plenty of drug research, not nearly as much as advertising mind you. it's just not anything that's actually beneficial for the bulk of society.

[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 6 points 17 hours ago

Most of the drug research that actually produces new, useful treatments is done by universities and government research institutions, (or at least it was before the budget cuts). That research produced with state funding is then bought for pennies on the dollar by big pharma who does the last couple steps and reaps all of the financial rewards.

The NIH and CDC would be fully funded in perpetuity (along with many research institutions and universities) if they got paid even a fraction of the profits for their foundational research.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

He slashed funding to the groups that aren't getting the answers he wants.

In the near future, new funding will be made available for crackpot organizations that give him the results he wants.

[-] bajabound@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

And now we'll turn over the mic to our assistant secretary for health Jenny McCarthy...

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

She actually renounced her stand on autism and vaccines. however, I can feel that the return of Andrew Wakefield is imminent. He's dating Elle MacPherson.

[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

This is just virtue signalling for his brainworm, and the bigots who voted his orange overlord in

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The environmental cause is not going to church. Just wait he is gonna prove that. /s

[-] JayJLeas@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Well, I did only got diagnosed with autism after I stopped going to church...

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

In my experience when someone says some variation of 'we don't believe in that' about mental health treatment. They are either a clueless victim of a narcissist or they are a narcissist. Many narcissist end up a preacher/god botherer. A narcissist fears mental health treatment more than they fear death. They don't want their victims to get it either. Since it will expose them. They say things like 'They always blame X' X being the narc or the narcs fud.

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