Probably because there's strong evidence a major environmental cause is Car Tire and break dust microplastics. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4019010/
Can't say bad thing about the auto industry and industrial oil & gas complex
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Interesting article! :)
I hate what the fossil fuel and auto industries are doing just as much as the next person, but the article by itself is not strong evidence of a causal relationship, only of an association. Their own conclusion in the abstract is literally: "Exposure to TRP, NO2, PM2.5, and PM10 during pregnancy and the first year of life was associated with autism. Further epidemiological and toxicological examination of likely biological pathways will help determine whether these associations are causal."
It could for instance be that for some reason, parents with higher autistic traits tend to be less bothered by/concerned about the noise, smell etc from roads. Which could explain differences in parents' exposure, since autism has such a strong hereditary factor. I'm not saying this is the case, just pointing out one of many possible alternative explanations.
Overall the study can be used to say we have another reason to be cautious and reduce car pollution as fast as possible, IMO. But building weak arguments based on it only makes it easier for corps to defang this type of research.
It could for instance be that for some reason, parents with higher autistic traits tend to be less bothered by/concerned about the noise, smell etc from roads. Which could explain differences in parents’ exposure, since autism has such a strong hereditary factor. I’m not saying this is the case, just pointing out one of many possible alternative explanations... But building weak arguments based on it only makes it easier for corps to defang this type of research.
The irony is very thick.
one poorly analysed underpowered data study is not "strong evidence". We have had cars, with tires and brake dust for 100 years.
not at this scale, size, weight and greater than ever use
RFK is an under-educated, born-rich and privelaged dickhead who thinks he is smarter than he is. He's that guy who walks into a job he has no real understanding of, but he thinks he knows better than everyone else -- even though they're the people who have done the real work and study on the matter. He's finding out he doesn't know half as much as he thought he did. If he was actually a decent human being, this would be an extremely stressful situation for him and he'd likely resign. With that being said, he is not a decent human being.
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.
If RFK Sr. was around he would disown this fucking clown. His family has already done it. What a loser! But he fits in with the rest of the idiots who counsel the King Idiot himself. What a world we live in and it's only because trump has let loose the fools to rampage. F*** em all!
The Kennedy dynasty is weird and admittedly mildly cursed. I do believe they deserve a biography worthy of a royal family for how they have been historically.
Oh the Kennedys have inbreeding too?
I don't know that yet
The good timeline was the one where Debbie Wasserman Schultz didn't comit whatever is worse than election fraud and conspire against Bernie Sanders
You can't make people afraid of the bogeyman if someone keeps turning on the lights
It's a shame what this loser has done to his father's name...
So he can start with the conclusion and then find the “research” that backs him up.
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.
Pretty sure tRump would be the antichrist.
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)
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.
He's got the head wound. Anyone see The Omega Code?
He already “knows” what it is. It’s been a shame from the start he doesn’t give af
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.
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.
“They say his father was a great man, he must be what’s left.”
Honest question to US citizens: why are so many people so obsessed with autism at yours? 🧐
Gotta be a dummy to believe anything that fash say.
RFK has personally benefitted financially from the vaccines - autism misinformation mill. He's not going to support funding that for the thousandth time proves there's no link and the increase in autism rates is entirely contained within the now broader spectrum of what we define autism as.
I betcha he must be getting bank from those dozens of snake-oil MLMs trying to get their product sold.
It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It
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RFK JR supports a pedophile. Reveal the unaltered Epstein files and step down
*arrest the criminals
Relatedly, he also claimed to have concerns about the safety of vaccines (especially MRNA vaccines) and just wanted to get to the bottom of it. So he's ignoring existing vaccine research and cutting new research.
The words were just window dressing. The right wing does not speak in good faith.
The right wing does not speak in good faith.
Aka fash always lie.
He slashed funding to the groups that aren't getting the answers he wants.
In the near future, new funding will be made available for crackpot organizations that give him the results he wants.
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wish the kennedy curse would stop taking it's sweet time getting to rfk jr
When I was a kid I had no understanding of the genius of the band name "The Dead Kennedys".
Dude is a curse.
The curse only kicks off if you add something good to society. His whole life is a joke with no punchline.
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).
I can't wait for boomers to blame the Democrats
Well yeah cause dems aren't doing shit but collaborating with fascism and genocide.
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This is just virtue signalling for his brainworm, and the bigots who voted his orange overlord in
RFK jr is plagued with an unknown illness. That shit river is more qualified to run the CDC.
Yes, America has a health and food issue. However this guy is as close to solving it as JD Vance is to solving his wife's pussy.
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