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.

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

NGL I'm morbidly curious how insane the supposed causes will be.

As with any great modern scientific discovery, nothing is shared, or can be guessed from existing evidence, until the great reveal!

Who you gonna trust? Scientists who have researched the problem for their whole professional lives, or Maggot Brain?

Imagine an ignorant like RFK Jr telling the world for the first time the cause of autism 🤯

Change the word "reveal" to "guess at".

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”

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 cases is going to go up.

Inb4 vaccines

"We have found that autism is caused by woke"

looks at the CDC

Suuuuuuuure you will.

I'm placing my bet they claim something like "testing for autism causing autism"... they'll ban the tests. Problem "solved"!

Aside from politics, do scientists actually know what causes autism? Sorry if this question is ignorant, but I have no clue about that.

They are going to blame immigrants.

Pregnancy, final answer.

people who announce what they're gonna announce don't have sh to say.

I hope it's electricity. The chaos would be engaging.

wow what shitty, dangerous rhetoric to spread

I’m sure RFK’s explanation will be something insane like fluoride, but in recent years we have found mounting evidence that autism is caused by a genetically-based cellular malfunction that puts cells into deeply impactful danger response mode (CDR). More importantly, the theory behind this has led to an experimental therapy that has demonstrated almost miraculous results in all participants after one treatment. I’m not sure if it’s too late for an autistic dinosaur like me to see any benefits, but the research on this so far seems overwhelming.

https://www.autismparentingmagazine.com/autism-suramin-evolution/

“These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” Kennedy said. “Autism destroys families.”

Interesting. As an autistic person in their 50s who have done all of those things and have a family of their own, I’d like to say that he seems to be describing wealthy Republicans rather than autistic people.

Having known my husband for over 10 years now, it's having an inherently higher coolness than the rest of us; the world at large isn't prepared to deal this fact.

This is exactly how science normally works. "We've figured out something extremely important, but we aren't going to make it available for a month, so we can build up suspense."

And these causes I'm sure will be backed by scientific evidence right? Or are they going to pulled out of rfk maggoty ass?

The cause is RFK jr.

So I've been thinking about this, and I think he's going to come back saying it's mothers breast milk, and not a contaminant in it, but the very nature of itself.

To solve the issue, everyone will need to migrate to using a special infant formula only Nestlé has.

Ooh, this will be good.

Oh great, another distraction for the voter base.

Will this be like "infrastructure week"?

It apparently was already done in July without his help.

But he's probably scrambling to pin the blame in something that isn't tied to big oil / plastic.