Lol, yes it’s either internal or external. Good to have it narrowed down. Thank God RFK Jr was brave enough to figure it out.
To take a non-free market view - e.g. Liberal one - you can simply regulate teratogens out of the marketplace. Coming up with ways to change maternal genetics or practice designer babery is more complicated - both in terms of getting the technology developed and approved and also in terms of getting people to buy into Frankenstein tech.
Regulation probably wouldn’t prevent all future cases of autism, but it might take out significant chunks, if we could track down all of the most likely catalysts.
RFK Jr attacking vaccine makers directly. Only 4 more to put out of business
Congress passed a law in 1986 leading to the establishment of the VICP to prevent further instability in the vaccine market.
Hmm, who new that the secretary of the US Department of Whatever could change acts of Congress at their whim?
Something we’ll have to file away that the Democrats can ignore.
There is no reason to believe in environmental causes. There are no clusters. You could map the cases and look for a source.
That rules out things like work-based exposure by a single catalyst but not population wide, systemic exposure to a wide variety of common catalysts.
I grant that I’m not a researcher, let alone one who works in this space, but from everything that I’ve read, I understand that there’s no particular doubt on the subject of whether environmental factors have an amount of effect. E.g., the following non-descript article that casually gives a 50% causality:
For the things that they examine like:
- Smoking
- Fire retardants
- Area pollutants associated with population density (gas stations, dry cleaners, and residential and commercial heating and cooling)
- VOCs are emitted from many human products and activities, including indoor residential and workplace paints, furnishings, and air fresheners; vehicle fuel combustion (benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, and xylene, abbreviated BTEX); dry cleaning (tetrachloroethylene, also known as perchloroethylene or PERC); refrigeration; cigarette smoke (benzene, ethyl benzene, formaldehyde, and xylenes); hair and nail salons (toluene); and in other industries involving fuels, lubricants, paints, and more.
If we assume that your average VOC or gasoline manufacturing worker is a biological man working in a 3rd world foreign country, then the average exposure to women in a country doing this sort of research is pretty evenly spread, regardless of where she lives.
From the conclusion:
So far, evidence suggests that some criteria air pollutants, some metals, and several pesticides, with suggestions that some volatile organic compounds (e.g., methylene chloride, trichloroethylene, and styrene) and phthalates, may be linked to autism. These associations have emerged despite difficulties of study in this area, most notably the error in accurately measuring exposure concentrations and obtaining sufficient sample sizes. Increasingly, studies that examine exposures by developmental time period suggest that all windows are not equal. Although evidence for a discrete developmental window of susceptibility for autism is in its early stages, results shown here suggest that early pregnancy may be a period of susceptibility to pesticides, whereas later pregnancy may be a period of susceptibility to criteria air pollutants. Different critical windows for different exposures is not unexpected given the various biological activities of environmental chemicals and the many, interwoven events of neurodevelopment, taking place during pregnancy and postnatal life, which, if disrupted, could manifest in autism symptoms.
Senior on Threads reported that she had to pay 220 dollars for Covid shot. Medicare would not cover it (it just goes to the quarterly deductible)
Since the shots have been approved by the FDA, they should be covered by Medicare. I know Moderna’s was only approved yesterday so maybe that person got it too early. I would recommend waiting until October to take it along with the flu shot for the best seasonal coverage.
Twitter: RFK Jr. said it’s “mythology” to claim that vaccines eliminated polio and suggested the banning of DDT is what actually eliminated polio, not vaccines.
Early betting on those “certain interventions” RFK Jr. is already convinced cause autism favors Tylenol and vaccines. Maybe not all vaccines, at least initially.
Neonatal hepatitis B vaccination is likely first on the hit list*, others to follow.
*you see, only filthy drug addicts and hookers get hepatitis B, and my precious infant and all family members plus every conceivable potential contact couldn’t possibly be infected, so no risk whatsoever.
Polio hasn’t been eliminated (and elimination has likely become harder) perhaps smallpox is what was meant (I blame RFK, not the poster)
Brian
It should go without saying that the antivax meme about DDT causing polio is utter nonsense, commonly promulgated by virus deniers.
Polio incidence fell dramatically in the U.S. (and elsewhere) in the 1950s after the vaccines were introduced. DDT continued to be used heavily (in the U.S. well into the 1960s) and wasn’t banned here until 1972.
I could envision some argument like that the invention of DDT ended polio, if we’re supposed to believe that it was spread by insects or something. But polio is known to have been killing people back to at least the 1700s, and was likely floating around since the Egyptians. The number of cases ballooned starting around 1905 and then started to go down in the mid to late 1950s and was effectively at zero by about 1961.
DDT was invented in 1874 but was just a chemical curiosity until it was discovered to act as an insecticide around 1930 and, presumably, started to see use around that point. I don’t believe that there are any significant limits on use until at least after Silent Spring was published in 1962 and, even then, it was still in wide use until it was banned in 1972 or thereabouts.
The end of DDT doesn’t even align with the end of polio, not ramping down until after polio had already (practically) gone to zero. And it’s start of use is 25 years too late for the 1905 epidemic, and wildly off for polio as a disease generally.
The vaccine was, of course, invented in the mid-to-late 1950s and, subsequently, the polio numbers suddenly started to plummet.
Not to say that there’s any particular reason to take the argument seriously but, just in case someone thinks that they should.
CTer’s explain that that was ‘’‘real polio’‘’ and the ‘’‘20th century polio’‘’ was a condition caused by DDT with almost identical symptoms.
Always glad to see George Washington cited to good effect:
That still doesn’t line up.
I know, but the CTer I was ‘’‘debating’‘’ this with refused to acknowledge the actual history.
Sometimes all you can do is shrug and accept that now is not the time that this particular person is save-able.
Some cracks are showing. This is why some Republican lawmakers were pushing back. With Trump loyalty flows one way. If he starts looking like a liability Junior will get dropped like a hot potato.