WASHINGTON- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his view that toxins in the environment contribute to autism with a series of new studies to investigate the issue as scientists continue to push back on his claims.
Would be hilarious if they discovered the rising rates were due to microplastics in the environment. Deregulation will surely fix that…
No, micro plastics have now been shown to prevent cancer! Yeah! Drill baby drill!
So they defunded CDC cuz it was a waste yet this is not a waste?
Anything and everything goes with fascists. Standards mean nothing to then, and if it weren’t for double standards, they’d have none at all. Expect nothing except for the complete destruction of social and government programs that help society at large.
“Toxins”.
JFC
Am I hearing this right… Toxins released from corporations are to blame so this administration is repealing all environmental protections it can.
So is this some perverse experiment to see if they can cause more suffering or are these people just insufferable twats!?
Even if this was true… the current administration is all about rolling back all the regulations that protect us from things like this hypothetical toxin.
The government wouldn’t ban it, they’d call it fake news and give companies producing it subsidies so they could make more.
What an absolute waste of taxpayer money. Surely DOGE will be shuttering this… right? /s
They’ve run plenty of studies on this type of stuff. Promise this “study” will be biased and corrupt with an outcome that matches RFK’s previous ranting.
In right wing world science is jumping to a faith based conclusion and then smashing together a bunch of data from random experiments that looks like something that comes to said conclusion. If something looks to change the conclusion then the process is wrong not the conclusion.
And if those studies prove you are a fucking moron, will you still allow those studies to be published…?
Yeah that’s what I thought.
Government efficiency amirite?
lol kids gonna die
wait . . . that’s terrible
Maybe our skills in identifying spectrum traits has improved with greater awareness? Y’know, maybe. Maybe that’s a plausible explanation.
Didn’t they just declare open season on environmental toxins for oil, coal, AI, whatever? After we already know how bad they are for health, particularly in historically abused minority neighborhoods?
So, they’re shutting down actual research in order to rehash this bullshit for the hundredth time?
toxins…which were pumped into the environment by his republican corporate sponsors. imagine our current administration holding a company responsible for something like this.
Is there any research about hard drugs diminishing mental capacity? Oh there is, interesting!
