RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September

Can they cure Barron??

Praise the Lord!

RFK Jr. really is a gold-plated moron.

He'd say 'cosmic brain worms from Uranus' and MAGA would believe it.

Verdict : vaccines cause autism. Don't even need a " study," because that's what he will conclude.

Kennedy in all likelihood is neurodivergent himself. Obviously the ADHD bias. But that’s all the Kennedy curse is: undiagnosed neurodivergence. The Bouviers had it too.

Of course it will be vaccines

[quote]Kennedy has hired David Geier, a man who has repeatedly claimed a link between vaccines and autism, to lead the autism research effort. The hiring of Geier, who the state of Maryland found was practicing medicine on a child without a doctor’s license, was first reported by The Washington Post.

As usual, they only use "the best people".

I have been absolutely sure of 3 things in my life

In 1965 there was no doubt the US needed to be in VN with combat troops

There was absolutely no doubt that Biden then Harris would win the election

RFK jr will be proven very wrong

R6 - he has a drug-addled mind. No need to diagnose him.

Who knew it was that easy!

Do we think that our eugenicist anti-Autism troll might really be RFK Jr.?

I can just imagine the "expert researchers." Jenny McCarthy. Joe Rogan. Dr. Oz. Random Bitch on Facebook with a tale of woe about her autistic kid.

Oh, my sides.

This guy can't tell his ass from his elbow and he's declaring within 5 months, we'll know the cause of autism? Suuuuuuuuuuuure, buddy.

Is taking steroids at Kennedy's advanced age a cause of autism? Or is that just considered general stupidity?

Because that's how real science works. Vall in some crank with a completely discredited theory and set a deadline!

It's wild to me that our country's entire healthcare apparatus was handed over to this charlatan in exchange for a meaningless endorsement that probably did not move the needle one single hair's width.

Kennedy suggested Wednesday that measles cases are inevitable in the United States because of ebbing immunity from vaccines — a notion doctors say is false. “We’re always going to have measles, no matter what happens, as the vaccine wanes very quickly,” Kennedy said.

Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine offer lifelong protection.

[quote]Kennedy suggested Wednesday that measles cases are inevitable in the United States because of ebbing immunity from vaccines — a notion doctors say is false. “We’re always going to have measles, no matter what happens, as the vaccine wanes very quickly,” Kennedy said.

What a fucking liar. Just a total liar - two doses of the MMR usually grant a person protection for LIFE.

Immunity against mumps may wane slightly over time, from person to person, but measles was basically eradicated here in this country for a long time, with only very few, localized outbreaks, mostly among the unvaccinated.

Finally!

Also on the docket:

Cancer by November.

Meaning of life by January.

Why some men where socks with sandals by March.

^^Also included as a bonus: "Belly Lint: a Comprehensive Prevention Guide"

Has Dump stopped coloring his hair?

He’ll bring the same smarts to this that he brought to eating rotten whale meat and getting a brain worm

And in other news RFK jr has allegedly said that people who have unhealthy habits that cause sickness and loss , like eating donuts or drinking sodas, should be denied health insurance.

The Barebackers of America wonder who will be next

Can he find out about the scurge that every white woman has, My Fibro is acting up again, poor depressed me!!!

That worm really did a number on RJK Jr.'s brain:

"HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s visit to the FDA Friday was supposed to introduce him as a trusted leader to agency employees. It did anything but. Over the course of 40 minutes, Kennedy, in largely off-the-cuff remarks, asserted that the “Deep State” is real, referenced past CIA experiments on human mind control and accused the employees he was speaking to of becoming a “sock puppet” of the industries they regulate.

He touted his work for the Special Olympics but shocked several FDA employees when he said he spent 200 hours in high school working at the “Wassaic home for the retarded.” By the end of the event, billed as a welcome from the new commissioner, Marty Makary, several FDA staffers had walked out of the rooms where the speech was being broadcast at the agency’s headquarters in White Oak, Maryland.

The US had the world's preeminent system of research facilities, especially in the medical fields. Between DOGE's massive funding cuts, Trump's ideological blackmail of universities, and this fool's crackpottery, we've thrown that away in less than three months, just as surely as we've thrown away our national security advantage and our leadership of the global economy.

Putin is laughing his ass off. In a few months Dump has destroyed everything good about the USA.

Only for 47's ego. That's all that matters about anything and everything.

I think RFK Jr is autistic. High functioning like many actors. That’s what this obsession is about.

He’s certainly neurodivergent.

Autism… well, it’s specific.

As for what caused neurodivergence in the Kennedys…

Low genetic diversity in Ireland is probably a good place to start.

Mr. Maggot Brain with zero medical or scientific background will solve the autism problem in 6 months.

Scientific research on autism is believed to be caused by various factors, but evidence indicate that most of them appear to be the significant environmental factors we are exposed to daily. Such as the impact of a variety environmental toxins on both parents DNA in the years leading up to the pregnancy, the often advanced age of the parents, and additional environmental exposures from the time of the baby's conceptions, gestation, and it's early infancy years.

I’m sure the Heritage Foundation will be looking forward to him discovering what causes gayness and its cure.

"I’m sure the Heritage Foundation will be looking forward to him discovering what causes gayness and its cure."

I already discovered the cause of gayness - chemicals in tap water!!!

I wonder if he'll find that it has something to do with vaccinations.

What a dangerous buffoon.

RFK Jr lives in Crazy Town.

He doesn't just live in Crazy Town, he's the Mayor

I hope he works on dementia next!!

R31 Poor John-John. That wife must have been hell on wheels constantly nagging and berating him in public. She was so unhinged that she made the last few years of his life miserable. I always felt that John would still be here if he left her sooner or, better yet, never met or married her in the first place.

Wonder if they will try to ban PreP or birth control pills by commissioning a bunch of studies to "prove" they're harmful

Big Pharma's gonna love this administration. Kiss the ring, donate a few million, and you might get a carve-out from the madness.

RFK Jr. will unveil his Son of Flubber autism cure made from roadkill fried in whale blubber, aged in a bear-cub carcass left in an urban park for the duration of 60 sexts.

He wants to put autistic people on a "disease registry"

Yikes

PFAS do cause changes to genitalia in utero for sure, but if we don’t study it isn’t happening.

This motherfucker.

The environmental risk is exponentially with the various chemicals and toxins people are exposed to in their lives over the years. Also, parents having children at a more advanced age and feeding it processed foods from childbirth can only exacerbate the risks. Vaccines have been scientifically tested for decades and there is basically no evidence they cause autism.

"I'll NEVER stop hurting the disabled!" vows RFK

I’ve set my timer for this great event.

Trump's skin in OP's picture, yeesh 🤢😬! Thick, dry, rough, pitted, wrinkly, and orange. How can someone that conceited let himself be seen like that?

Is RFK jr about the scariest thing you've seen in your life? Scarier looking than Trump

R51 Seeing him is bad enough, but when he starts speaking omg.

Are we hoping he is found right and maybe a cure is found or would we hate him more if he was successful?

I have no idea this was not my professional field but of things over the time of history we knew to be absolute true no doubt absolutely no doubt true then we found it was all bullshit.

A smart person is fully open to the fact that the things they know to be absolutely true today may be found to be misguided bull shit years from now. The true believers on any issue are not included.

I think it’s all going to be a clusterfuck but I m open to the possibility it might not all end that way. I hope for good things to happen and a shitload less autism. Autism which I read on DL impacts almost anyone you disagree with. Autistic and Nazi.

R53, his vaccine policies are based on a rejection of germ theory and his notions about autism are based on a bogus study that was debunked and withdrawn years ago. He's not going to be "found right."

R54 in general and overall I do not wish for bad things to happen to our country or our people. Any of our people. So in that sense I hope he does somethings that we find out later were really good. Even if we think it’s nutty today.

I have hope but like all of DL I am clueless what the future will actually bring . On DL we are usually hoping or guessing and then being wrong ( Harris Walz for the win) .

[quote]I can just imagine the "expert researchers." Jenny McCarthy. Joe Rogan. Dr. Oz. Random Bitch on Facebook with a tale of woe about her autistic kid.

And I'll be wearing my fake eyeglasses while doing research.

This is all distraction because Ratfark really fucked up the measles vaccine thing, having to make a flabby statement about whether or not to vaccinate. And the Thimerisol argument is dead. Onward to the next basket of bullshit.