RFK Jr pledges to find the cause of autism 'by September'

The BBC article is making him look better than it really is. The Hill headlined their article: "RFK Jr.: ‘By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic’" and made sure to clarify:
Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic who helped found one of the most prominent anti-vaccine organizations, has spent decades religiously promoting the theory that childhood vaccines have led to an increase in autism and chronic illnesses, despite studies repeatedly showing otherwise.
He's going to say it was the vaccines (since he has been promoting that idea for decades), because not only will this nonsense from the 2000s not die (spoiler alert: there's no epidemic, it's actually just that it's being identified more, like the old thing with left handedness), but it's now being promoted at the highest levels of government. Of course, this debunked "theory" comes with a nice helping of dehumanization that autistic people are subhuman, right?
- 100% he basically just gave himself half a year to dick around at the office and then just stroll in once September rolls around and say vaccines.
  
  I was almost positive op had some form of "he'll conclude vaccines are the cause" under the spoiler.
- I'm not confident it will be "lol vaccines mabbe idk?" because that's only the grift that got him into office. There's a hard ceiling to antivax shit. It's solidly pseudoscientific and no study they produce would stand up to scrutiny. There are immediate public health consequences which turn the vast majority of the population- only like 16% of US adults are antivax- against them with no ability to control the narrative. The opposition from the pharmaceutical industry will be big and targeted at the republican candidates threatening their profits while democrats are happy to accept that lobbying and fund their research.
  The grift where he really stands to profit and avoid public opposition is with the food supply. People already tolerate extremely abusive migrant/prison/child labour to provide food which everyone across the political spectrum hates. It's fully rational and scientific to want to dismantle the food production system of this country. If you're providing cheap eggs during the bird flu pandemic you've caused or healthy tomatoes when outdoor agriculture collapses due to defunding NOAA, otherwise normal people will turn a blind eye to how those foods got there. He has so much more potential to use this as a cover for pushing really dark policies against a larger outgroup. He'll get a huge amount of money from the private prison industry that's acting as his Wellness SS in the camps. If he finds a way to use this report as a launching point for that, it's going to go a lot further than him just throwing slop to the antivaxxers who only got him a participation trophy in the 2024 election.
  
  Sure, I definitely think he will do other harmful stuff.
  However, the US public does like genocidal stuff like dehumanizing. If he doesn't do the vaccines thing, he could come up with another "conclusion" to this "investigation" that's much worse to support terrible things
- He's doing the elon move.
  Promise some bullshit for a year or two out, then in a year or two just promise something else.

I really want this guy to go into the family business of being dead

He doesn't have to bother, I already know it. It's me, I'm the cause of autism. Evidence: Every time I date someone, they end up figuring out they're autistic.

Now that we've gotten all of that scientific research apparatus out of the way, accomplishing in five months what decades worth of research couldn't should be a breeze!
- Especially now that so much of that pesky research has been defunded.

different ways of parenting
This one seems especially ominous to me. I'm not familiar with his base's position on parenting beyond being parental rights demons. Is this pro-child abuse, anti-public and progressive charter schools, anti-divorce, or something benign like restricting access to electronics? The food system reference is going to be him recommending his wellness concentration camps, water and air are going to be recommendations to further deregulate environmental protections, and he'll obviously try to polish up antivax pseudoscience. The evil intent in all of those is clear. "Different ways of parenting" is so ambiguous in what it will be targeting.
- wellness concentration camps
  I wonder what euphemism they'll use to describe those. I wonder if they'll use marketing-slash-SEO speak. WellCamps - maybe?
  
  He calls them "wellness farms": https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-yes-rfk-jr-030000179.html
  Just, you know, farms where we send specific groups of people who can't leave. And they're obligated to work. But that work makes them free of depression.

I’ve considered getting my son tested for autism but I’m worried about what that would lead to in this administration. Talk of work camps does not bode well and neither does this bullshit
- yeah, mood. i have been told that i most likely have adhd and literaly had appointments to get it diagnosed before covid cancelled that and honestly i'm glad it did. being on-record as disabled seems kind of dangerous
  
  I’ve basically accepted not medically transitioning for the foreseeable future, just in case
- If there are any outspokenly progressive physicians in your area, you might be able to discuss that with them and have an informal consultation that isn't charted explicitly or formally diagnosed until it's safe to do so. But going that route you probably wouldn't be able to get prescription meds or state/school recognition of the disorder.
- I recommend going to a neighboring country for a test like that. Dont give them your name. Pay in cash.

Don’t let him find me.

It's going to be China isn't it
- Chinese vaccines.
- yeah, he'll go on a wacky globetrotting adventure with some colorful sidekicks to find and defeat the cause of autism in a chinese mountain shrine
  
  Make it stylized like a goofy 1970s action flick and I'd watch it.
  I wouldn't like it, but I'd watch it.
- SSynthesis: Chinese are invading our vaccines!

you know, like 2000 years ago there were no written instances of domestic violence. now there are a lot. i wonder what changed?
probably the kids today are playing too much pacman, asking too many questions, and aren't drinking enough of my patent medicine. blam, Lawyer Science.

The koch brothers are going to have him assassinated.
- Live David Koch reaction
- Hopefully he continues his family's legacy 🙏
  
  May his head Just Do That On Its Own

Is this before or after Biden’s promise to cure cancer

Can't wait to get my normal pills
- The good news: they're just mint-flavored chewable Tic Tac brand®️™️ placebos
  The bad news: You have to engage in inane small talk to get them

He's going to find (more) evidence that poverty increases the risk of autism and ignore the results, isn't he.
- Poverty can make adapting a lot harder and therefore make autism more visible but it doesn't increase the probability of being autistic
  
  Poverty doesn't directly increase the likelihood of being autistic, but it increases the likelihood of low birth weight, exposure to pollution, and stress in the mother, which in turn are risk factors for autism. It is possible that reverse causation exists with a direct comparison of poverty to autism, but a correlation certainly is there, and a causation is possible.

I hope he's not trying to put people in "treatment" camps.

- This sounds too much like phrenology.
  
  That is possible. There were scientific papers about it a few years back but who knows if they were any good.
- pulls out calipers
  erm actually statistically east asians have the most neanderthal dna
  https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/autism-rates-by-country
  but outside of japan/south korea having some of the highest detected autism rates per capita, the rest of east asia doesn't seem to follow that theoretical trend (ofc this could just be different material landscapes of ASD diagnosis)
  but the main thing to note that I really think buries that vibe is that ASD and ADHD are still prevalent in sub-saharan Africa where a lot of people have near-zero neanderthal DNA
  
  That actually does seem to map with the hypothesis mostly.
  For the rest african populations have the most genetic diversity anyway so who who knows what pop-science people would do with that though.

America is a joke lmao

lol he's going to outlaw vaccines I bet.
- If the admin goes all in, i wonder what the fallout would look like. There'd be 10% of the country cheering like assholew, but then...what would happen with everyone else?
  Some people would say "i don't like it, i wish i could give vaccines, but its the law now."
  How many people would say "lol fuck that" and give shots anyways?
  
  I believe it will be like abortions. The rich will continue getting vaccinated while they pretend they weren't, meanwhile poor people gets nothing and have to suffer.