cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48326364

  • 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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      3 months ago

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

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    3 months ago

    The real damage here is not RFK as much as Trump ending NIH funding. And there is little/no public outcry. 5 years from now, there will be no new drugs (pharma does not actually do basic drug research any more).

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      US Pharma does plenty of drug research, not nearly as much as advertising mind you. it’s just not anything that’s actually beneficial for the bulk of society.

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        Most of the drug research that actually produces new, useful treatments is done by universities and government research institutions, (or at least it was before the budget cuts). That research produced with state funding is then bought for pennies on the dollar by big pharma who does the last couple steps and reaps all of the financial rewards.

        The NIH and CDC would be fully funded in perpetuity (along with many research institutions and universities) if they got paid even a fraction of the profits for their foundational research.

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    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.

    He became the very monster he sought to destroy.

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

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    You can’t make people afraid of the bogeyman if someone keeps turning on the lights

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    Some chemicals that may be linked to autism, but they are rolling back regulations that are linked to all sorts of things worse. And with the amount of time it takes to put any of this regulation in place it’ll be decades just to reverse it all, but the world will be a much more toxic place by then when coupled with his attacks on the climate also.

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    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.

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      Exactly, if he wanted to achieve half of his goals for the food supply, the only solution is a shitload of regulation. I’m sure the Republicans will jump all over that.

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      It’s all a theater play with them, they’re dumb but only in a very myopic understanding of intelligence. They’d managed not just to outwit, but to run circles around half the population of the US.

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

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        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.

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    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.

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        tRump

        Ah, this I like. Lately I’m finding it difficult to bother pressing the shift key when I type his name. It just seems to show a tiny modicum of respect and I don’t want that.

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        Down to the head wound and everything, this is why I think simulation theory has weight. Revelations was written about contemporary politics of the day, yet we are now getting an odd accounting of it, reality itself seems to be acting different than it did a decade ago. This is the point in the game where they just add crazy shit to see what happens (he’s a child rapist but that makes him more popular)

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    Honest question to US citizens: why are so many people so obsessed with autism at yours? 🧐