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RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. (www.propublica.org)

submitted 1 week ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/science@lemmy.world

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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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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] JayJLeas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Pretty sure tRump would be the antichrist.

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[–] Eternal192@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

They gave him a few answers which were kinda the same just worded differently and he didn't like those answers and now until someone leaks those theories we won't find out the reason either.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

To be fair, Brainworm K Jr. doesn't need research funding to produce a paper identifying the environmental cause of Autism by citing stormfront.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean Trofim Lysenko?

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Making the COVID vaccines illegal will only make our future children stronger! /s

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Jenny McCarthy told me it's vaccines. So we are getting rid of those. Autism forever cured." -Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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