They announced they’d be announcing this last spring. I’m just going to copypasta what I wrote on my Facebook at the time, because I was pretty happy with it to be honest
Humor me for a minute. Let’s pretend that HHS promised the cause of type I diabetes by September. This has been researched for years, and suddenly they’re going to have the cause pinpointed? And without knowing what that cause is (much less how or even if it could be prevented) they’re also promising to say how it could be prevented. Seems kinda unrealistic at best, yeah?
Now let’s go back to what’s actually being attempted: “finding” the cause of autism. Same thing, except it’s being lead by a guy who has been drinking the conspiracy-flavored Kool Aid for years. You would have a hard time convincing me that 1) after years of research, they will have a definitive and final cause in about 6 months, 2) this will be directed with the neutrality needed for proper research, and 3) of all the many many diseases we have in this country, autism just so happens to be the one that needs that immediate attention.
The autistics yearn for the concentration camp - RFK probably
As a German, I appreciate the Americans taking the medal of cruelty away from us, but as a human being… what the fuck?
Honestly the only reason Germany ever got the damned thing is because you guys went nuts post industrialization, otherwise it’s a question on if Britain or the USA would’ve kept it. Shit like Wounded Knee was in living memory until but a scant few decades ago, same thing with a bunch of the shit Britain pulled in India and South Africa.
It’s actually Israel, but we’re ramping up!
Palestine.
They are going to blame immigrants.
why blame immigrants when you can blame trans immigrants
This is exactly how science normally works. “We’ve figured out something extremely important, but we aren’t going to make it available for a month, so we can build up suspense.”
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Inb4 vaccines
Inb4 god punishing parents for queer thoughts
looks at the CDC
Suuuuuuuure you will.
Having known my husband for over 10 years now, it’s having an inherently higher coolness than the rest of us; the world at large isn’t prepared to deal this fact.
inherently higher coolness
Ah, autism is nature self-correcting to fight climate change.
Oh great, another distraction for the voter base.
It was me, I did it. I caused autism.
I’m ready to accept blame for my acts.
But I stand by what I did.
I’m sure RFK’s explanation will be something insane like fluoride, but in recent years we have found mounting evidence that autism is caused by a genetically-based cellular malfunction that puts cells into deeply impactful danger response mode (CDR). More importantly, the theory behind this has led to an experimental therapy that has demonstrated almost miraculous results in all participants after one treatment. I’m not sure if it’s too late for an autistic dinosaur like me to see any benefits, but the research on this so far seems overwhelming.
https://www.autismparentingmagazine.com/autism-suramin-evolution/
“These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,” Kennedy said. “Autism destroys families.”
Interesting. As an autistic person in their 50s who have done all of those things and have a family of their own, I’d like to say that he seems to be describing wealthy Republicans rather than autistic people.
Change the word “reveal” to “guess at”.
Nah, straight up lie about.
As I pointed out in another comment, no guessing is required. It’s genetics. We know it’s genetics. That’s been pretty self-evident from the data for decades. It’s just anti-vaxxers who refuse to accept that answer and prefer some made up woo by a quack doctor who tortured children.
Sorry, my bad, two quack doctors. The other sells his blood as an autism “cure”.
More like “Bullshit about”
Aside from politics, do scientists actually know what causes autism? Sorry if this question is ignorant, but I have no clue about that.
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I read a thing the other day that acetaminophen during pregnancy is now suspected as a cause.
It inhibits cell division and is now considered harmful to pregnancy and conception.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40819833/
But there’s also a recent finding suggesting it doesn’t
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38592388/
I hadn’t seen that second result before writing this comment
Thanks! That’s interesting.
The conclusion from meta analysis reviews of ASD research on environmental causes is that none of it is conclusive, and most of it is poor quality. This is a chronic problem with epidemiology.
It’s also worth noting that acetaminophen is pretty much the ONLY OTC painkiller you’re allowed to take while pregnant (other than baby aspirin as a preventative if you’re high risk for pre-eclampsia), so I strongly suspect a sizeable majority of people end up using it at least once during pregnancy. It’s common enough that I’d imagine separating correlation from causation on that one might be especially difficult.
In all likelihood the root cause of ASD is multifactoral and appears to be at least partially genetic.
It’s also used to treat things that have also shown potential links to ASD, like certain viral infections.
besides having sex with your mom?
It’s a complex genetic disorder, where many genes influence an outcome that generates a spectrum of disease. While at one end of the spectrum it can be debilitating at the other end it produces some of the best minds in STEM. In other words, there is an evolutionary advantage in humans to have autism in the population.
This is a very complex genetic disorder from birth. There is definitely is not an environmental cause. By try explaining this to a guy that swims in sewage.
is is?
We know it’s HEAVILY influence by genetics, but there seems to be some other component as well. That unknown piece, from what I understand, has not been discovered.
In identical twins (same DNA,) If one twin has ASD, the other only has it 96% of the time. If it was purely genetic, this should be 100%.
Could be down to gene drift or random mutation at that point, pretty sure that 4 percent is well within such variables.
Epigenetics (differences in gene expression) is more than sufficient; an actual mutation isn’t necessary.
Not true, that’s called twin discordance. It’s very common. While they were born with the same DNA sequence, every person develops slightly differently and has a different epigenetic profile. The concept that twins are identical when developed was outdated about 20 years ago.
Isn’t twin discordance only referring to different weights/sizes at birth?
So I’ve been thinking about this, and I think he’s going to come back saying it’s mothers breast milk, and not a contaminant in it, but the very nature of itself.
To solve the issue, everyone will need to migrate to using a special infant formula only Nestlé has.
The cause is RFK jr.
