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.

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    If he actually believed it, that would be bad. But he doesn’t. He and all his family are vaxxed. That’s much worse. They’re just perpetuating the lie which keeps droves of uninformed idiots voting for them. At the cost of the lives of innocent children. But they won’t lose a night’s sleep over it.

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      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.

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    “This is coming from an environmental toxin and somebody made it and put that environmental toxin into our air or water or medicines or food,” Kennedy said during the press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services’ headquarters in Washington, D.C.

    “And we’ll announce the culprit as soon as the next corporate figure from any of those industries is critical of the Trump administration.”

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    It’s funny how many people that claim to believe that vaccines cause autism out themselves as not truly believing that.

    The vast majority of people who parrot the vaccines cause autism bullshit also believe that autistic people should be punished for being autistic, even up to, in RFK Jrs own words: sent to labor camps. It’s not at all logically consistent to believe that autism is caused by an external factor outside of their control but also they need to be brutalized for daring to be autistic. It is, as always, a grift to get money from idiots.

    There’s definitely some moms of autism horseshit in there where “I can’t possibly be responsible for my child being autistic, it MUST be something else” is a major driving factor too. Anything to shift the blame away from yourself for failing to take care of your child properly.

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      Not even that, that idea is driven, deep down, by seeing autistic people as less than human, or at least a less “valuable” human. Don’t mistake it - Moms of Autism types absolutely, deep down, hate their children.

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        I am well aware, first hand, of what mothers of autistic children think about their autistic children. Fucked me up for decades.

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      As far as we can tell, these moms are indeed NOT responsible for the autism of their kids. As our society allows to care and accommodate for individuals who may or may not have issues integrating socially, autism is not negatively selected for and therefore individuals affected are only selected against on a sexual level if at all.

      That means: These moms blame anything but the chance of their genetics, in consequence believing fascist ideas of a lost golden past that must be achieved again by ousting demonized parts of society.

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    Is there any research about hard drugs diminishing mental capacity? Oh there is, interesting!

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    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!?

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    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.