• @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    1623 days ago

    This is the same thing as when the first time around they wanted to decrease covid pandemic metrics by halting testing. Which is an idea he got from Putin, who halted HIV/AIDS testing and statistical reporting when it became obvious that their mitigation efforts were absolutely not working (not because it’s an intractable problem, but because they didn’t really care that much, and homosexuals are a big scapegoat group in Russia).

  • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    1122 days ago

    It’s going to be vaccines. We already know this. They’ve already made that announcement 1000 times. They just need time until September so they can forge the evidemce, which they will use to ban most vaccines, for most people (rich people will still be able to get vaccines).

      • @tal@lemmy.today
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        23 days ago

        https://people.com/rfk-jr-heroin-use-top-of-class-student-8752783

        “I did very, very poorly in school, until I started doing narcotics,” Kennedy, 70, said on the podcast. “Then I went to the top of my class because my mind was so restless and turbulent and I could not sit still.”

        “It worked for me,” he continued of his past heroin use. “And if it still worked, I’d still be doing it.”

        rubs eyeballs

        Honestly, I don’t even know how The Onion deals with RFK.

        kagis

        https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-orders-removal-of-sinks-from-hhs-bathrooms/

        RFK Jr. Orders Removal Of Sinks From HHS Bathrooms

        WASHINGTON—As part of a sweeping overhaul of the building’s plumbing system, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly ordered the removal of sinks Tuesday from all bathrooms in the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters. “People across the world lived for thousands of years without sinks, and they were just fine—healthier, even,” said Kennedy, who noted that the cuts would not only save taxpayers thousands of dollars in maintenance and water bills each year, but be better for the environment as well.

        Yeah. I kind of feel like The Onion RFK is more-plausible than real life RFK.

        EDIT: By way of completely driving the point home with a sledgehammer:

        https://theonion.com/vaccine-critic-rfk-jr-backs-measles-vaccine-amid-deadly-outbreak/

        Vaccine Critic RFK Jr. Backs Measles Vaccine Amid Deadly Outbreak

        Though he stopped short of urging people to get the shot, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine critic, acknowledged the value of the measles vaccine amid a deadly outbreak in Texas. What do you think?

      • @Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org
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        What’s funny is as an asd adult. Cannibis is the only thing that helps manage the noise from the world so I can focus.

  • @cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    1022 days ago

    Which is the biggest joke, them starting a “research” effort, already knowing the outcome, or knowing when it will be completed ahead of time?

    • LEM 1689
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      523 days ago

      Sitting in a bunker, here behind my wall Waiting for the worms to come

      In perfect isolation, here behind my wall Waiting for the worms to come

      “The worms will convene at 1:15 outside Brixton Town Hall where we will be going in force!”

  • Geetnerd
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    1123 days ago

    “IT IS GENETIC, YOU FUCKING MORON.”

    Sincerely, Non-morons.

  • @LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe
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    1023 days ago

    I want to know too. A guy at work was fine, then one day he came down with the autism. Now he does computer nerd stuff.

  • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    6023 days ago

    Finding a “cause” for the “autism epidemic” is like finding a cause for the shrunken number of planets in our solar system. You’re just attacking identifiers and criteria, the existence of the thing remains unchanged.

  • Gordon Calhoun
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    Nope, definitely not going to be lead pumped into the atmosphere or water cycle. Nor could it be the active groups freshly invented over the past century by industrial chemistry labs trying to find better refrigerants or organic catalysts. Nor benzene, asbestos, dioxins, or PCBs. And certainly not PERC.

    Nor could it be epigentically induced via exposure of parents to these, and many other, pollutants capable of altering genetic code and causing chronic illness, in turn forcing lifestyles and stresses detrimental to health.

    Whatever they find, I’m sure all those possibilities will be ruled out. And not because ruling them in would make capitalist profitability decline before the next earnings report.

    • I want to know what method these anti-science whack jobs are going to use to determine this cause? If you didn’t like all the research the experts did into the underlying causes, WTF you gonna do differently?

      • Gordon Calhoun
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        223 days ago

        Well, there are always healing crystal queries, prophetical epiphanies, ‘gut feelings’, hunches, data dowsing, straight up making shit up, opinions available for bid to the richest interest, and confirmation bias backed by headlines.