Friday, April 11, 2025

RFK Jr.: HHS to Determine Autism's Cause This Summer

The nation's top health agency will undertake a "massive testing and research effort" to determine the cause of autism, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday.

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As usual, reading all the way through the article gets you the good stuff:

FTA: "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."

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Wow...what a bold and ambitious project. Why didn't anyone look into that before Polio Bob?

I'm guessing his "research" will link it to vaccines.

#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-11 07:34 AM

Quacks, charlatans, and mountebanks are in charge. America is doomed.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-11 07:41 AM

HHS won't determine $#!+. They are completely untrustworthy now

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-04-11 08:00 AM

This will result in little more than an evidence-free assertion that vaccines are to blame (partially) while vaguely referencing what we actually know (genetics is the main driver with environmental influences).

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-11 08:37 AM

With what researchers? They all got fired.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-11 08:51 AM

With what researchers? They all got fired.

The nut sucking sycophants that were kept on.

#6 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-04-11 11:00 AM

"RFK Jr.: HHS to Determine Autism's Cause This Summer"

Elon Musk's habit of procreating with any cooperative rando might have something to do with it.

#7 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-11 11:03 AM

I suspect the real cause of autism is all the preservatives, additives and chemicals the food and beverage industry are adding to all the processed products we've been consuming.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-11 11:06 AM

A tax funded wealth shift to him and his "investigators"

#9 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-04-11 11:21 AM

I suspect the real cause of autism is all the preservatives, additives and chemicals the food and beverage industry are adding to all the processed products we've been consuming.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack

It could also be one of the many effects, along with autoimmune diseases, of PFAs which we've allowed to contaminate everywhere, forever.

But Kennedy's group will for sure find that it is vaccines :{

#10 | Posted by MBlue at 2025-04-11 11:32 AM

#8 is that a joke?

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-11 11:40 AM

We're awash in of man-made chemicals with no natural analogue.

Were also awash in man-made chemicals that are biologically available, but have barely been researched, if at all.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-11 12:00 PM

I think autistic kids -- to some extent -- are exceptionally perceptive, can tell that their parents and the other adults are either lying or clueless, so they simply reject the world we try to force them to live in.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-11 12:02 PM

Is what a joke?

That since the 70s the food and beverage industry has been dumping chemicals into what we consume in order to get them to last longer and taste better?

You don't think some of those chemicals had adverse side effects?

Have you considered why a lot of nations around the world ban the chemicals and additives American food and beverage manufacturers fill our processed food with?

Hell, the McDonald's in other countries actually use real ingredients.

There's a study I just read about how adhd was reduced in children by removing processed foods from their diets.

Anyhow. It's all food for thought. I'm trying my best to eliminate all processed foods from my diet. But it's definitely a challenge. I grew up in the 80s and processed foods were plentiful.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-11 12:18 PM

Yeah I'm not sure if JPW works for Nestle or what with that comment.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-11 12:35 PM

If you want to find the cause of autism I suggest you fire as many researchers as you can and eliminate the funding to anyone capable of doing that research and hire only party loyalist and yes men ( not women or minorities of course!).

And of course no DEI allowed.

Just trying to be helpful here.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-11 01:03 PM

I'm not sure if JPW works for Nestle or what with that comment.

Me neither.

I definitely wasn't saying I know what causes autism.

Just sharing a hypothesis.

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-11 01:57 PM

Study strengthens link between maternal diabetes and autism
www.reuters.com

... A large new study adds to evidence that diabetes during pregnancy is linked with an increased risk of brain and nervous system problems in children, including autism, researchers say.

Whether diabetes actually causes those problems remains unclear. But when mothers have diabetes while pregnant, children are 28% more likely to be diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental disorder, according to an analysis of data pooled from 202 earlier studies involving more than 56 million mother-child pairs.

The risks for children of mothers with diabetes during pregnancy were 25% higher for autism, 30% higher for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and 32% higher for intellectual disability. They were also 20% higher for trouble with communication, 17% higher for movement problems and 16% higher for learning disorders than in children whose mothers did not have diabetes while pregnant.

Diabetes diagnosed before pregnancy appeared to confer a 39% higher risk for one or more of these neurodevelopmental disorders compared with gestational diabetes that begins in pregnancy and often resolves afterward, the researchers reported in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. ...



#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-11 04:37 PM

Shouldn't be hard. The Amish don't get autism. Nor are they gender fluid.

Can't be a coincidence.

#19 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-04-11 11:56 PM

PedoRat is never right.

www.lgbtamish.com

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-12 12:46 AM

#20 Read "Our Voices" on that site. Gay is not gender fluid. Gay is genetic. Gender fluid is a mental disorder - you're just a perv.

Is it gay to tuck your junk, put on women's panties, and dance around like you have a vagina because you get off to it? No. Tha0t's called autogynophilia, and like body dismorphia it means you're insane.

Being attracted to men is caused by genes. God made you gay - you where born that way, and that's why you can't be talked or even tortured with aversion therapy out of being gay. But people with gender dysphoria get over it 10 years or less without help in 90% of cases. It takes 2-3 months with a good psych. So don't ---- up and cut your dick or ----- off.

M'kay?

#21 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-04-12 01:39 AM

You're the expert, fagrat

#22 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-12 01:11 PM

HeliumRat's response is perfect, considering not that long ago homosexuality was considered a mental illness and homosexuals were admitted to mental hospitals to "cure" them.

Now, homosexuality has been linked to your genes. It's who we are.

Won't be too long before people understand it's the same for transgender people.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-12 01:14 PM

Curious, I have met a few people who struggled for years until in their 50's they start the transition. They didn't get over it in spite of treatment. Wonder if Katlyn Jenner got treatment and if they regret transitioning.
people.com
So, not M'kay.

You are very loose with 'insane.' Would you allow the insanity defense for all those folks you say are insane.

#24 | Posted by mattm at 2025-04-12 06:33 PM

@#23 ... Won't be too long before people understand it's the same for transgender people. ...

Transgender, to me, seems to be a mismatch that God made when livf was given to a nascent fetus.

A mismatch of the brain operates as compared to the body in which the brain resides.

Wait, God can't make mistakes?

If that's the case, then maybe God wants transgender people.


#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-12 06:54 PM

Why do you assume it's a mistake rather than by design?

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-12 06:59 PM

Do brain worms from eating roadkill cause autism?

#27 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-04-12 07:00 PM

"To thine own self be true"

#28 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-12 07:02 PM

@#26 ... Why do you assume it's a mistake rather than by design? ...

I don't make that assumption.

Indeed, I said, "If that's the case, then maybe God wants transgender people."


#29 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-12 07:06 PM

Jesus had two dads.

#30 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-04-12 07:09 PM

He also had two dc!ks

#31 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-04-12 07:13 PM

"If that's the case, then maybe God wants transgender people."
#29 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

I, unlike god, do make mistakes.

My apologies.

#32 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-12 08:24 PM

Being gay is a mental illness caused by your dad face fucking you as a little boy. And it happened so much now you need sweaty balls in your face everyday. You people are all sick in the head for going along with the un-holy mutants.

#33 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-04-12 09:19 PM

"Being gay is a mental illness caused by your dad face fucking you as a little boy."

Glad I'm not a boy!
--Ivanka

#34 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-12 09:51 PM

@#18 ... Study strengthens link between maternal diabetes and autism ...

Sadly, this topic has strayed.

Why?

#35 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-12 10:00 PM

Won't be too long before people understand it's the same for transgender people.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack

It's environmental for the gender-fluid, not genetics.

Gen Z has half the testosterone of the baby boomers at the same age. If trends continue, sperm count will hit zero by 2050. It has to be environmental pollution, not genetics. Such a massive shift in 2 generations isn't genetic. It's the chemicals in our food and water, mostly pesticides that mimic estrogen and plasticizers that disrupt your endocrine system that I suspect are the main culprits.

#36 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-04-12 11:10 PM

Won't be too long before people understand it's the same for transgender people.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack

It's environmental for the gender-fluid, not genetics.

Gen Z has half the testosterone of the baby boomers at the same age. If trends continue, sperm count will hit zero by 2050. It has to be environmental pollution, not genetics. Such a massive shift in 2 generations isn't genetic. It's the chemicals.

#37 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2025-04-12 11:11 PM

Being gay is a mental illness caused by your dad face fucking you as a little boy. And it happened so much now you need sweaty balls in your face everyday. You people are all sick in the head for going along with the un-holy mutants.

#33 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-04-12 09:19 PM

Aww, someone got to stay up late. How cute.

#38 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-04-13 07:42 AM

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