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Originally Posted by Why_Yes_I_Do
Bigger picture, a noble one at that, is that Autism is ascending and it's unlikely that simply reclassifying previous observations into a group bucket solves the issue. That is the whole point RFK Jr is raising. It's called awareness.No reason to try to push the ADHD monster in a closet and lock the door. Take it out and investigate it. I mean, would it not be ludicrous to ignore it and not try to define and treat it? Perhaps reduce or illuminate it if a reasonable linkage can be found?
Regardless, we don't stand a shot in hell if we ignore it.
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No problem investigating it. While like you I lean libertarian, I believe the relative drop in the bucket we pay for medical research at the NIH and universities is well worth it. The problem is what RFK Jr. prioritizes. My sources tell me this is how 2026 funding will break out,
Killer vaccine research : 52%
Killer drug like Tylenol research: 20%
Heart research 10%
Cancer research 8%
Metabolic diseases (e.g. diabetes) 3%
Infectious diseases 2%
Lung dseases 1%
Other 4%
I asked ChatGPT what's caused the increase in diagnoses of ADHD and autism. (She's a lot smarter than you or me btw. She tells me she can score 1590 or 1600 on the SAT.) Anyway she believes the increase in ADHD in almost entirely from expanded recognition and broader labeling. For autism, she thinks about 60% of the increase is from diagnostic and reporting changes, 25% to 33% from "diagnostic change/substitution" (instead of saying a kid is retarded or has intellectual disability now they say he's autistic), and the rest, 7% to 15% may be from environmental changes and drugs and whatnot.
I think you used to say the reason so many people died from COVID was because the hospitals got paid more to say they died from COVID. I don't know about that, but guar-an-damn-tee that the schools milk autism and ADHD diagnoses for every dollar they can get.
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Originally Posted by Why_Yes_I_Do
Not necessarily. In a free country, we have a forum to try and prove a case, if it exists. I mean, if someone feels aggrieved, why not let them take their best shot if they have some data? Apparently the courts have allowed the existing suits to proceed. Will they prevail? Dunno...
The whole point on Autism is not that it's the Tylenol exclusively, but there are signs, such as being pregnant, that warrant informed caution versus tyranny and blanket protections.
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There are certain ways that your property can be stolen from you. Some bunch like Antifa or Pol Pot's government can claim it for the people, or the glorious state. A despot or mafia type can take it from you at gunpoint. Or a plaintiffs lawyer can sue you and take everything you've got, when you didn't do anything wrong. You have a proper appreciation of the first two ways, but appear dead set on ignoring the third, perhaps at your peril someday.
Our friend McCain owned Moderna stock. For all we know he might have invested his life savings in it. Somebody like Kennedy comes along, who's in the pocket of the plaintiffs' attorneys, and makes it where they bankrupt Moderna. And everything McCain's fought and scrimped for all his life goes up in smoke. Even though Moderna's vaccine saved 100 lives or more for every person it killed, Moderna gets fucked. The vaccine disappears. Next time there's a pandemic more people die because nobody wants to develop a vaccine and get bankrupted by the lawyers.
Tylenol's the physician's mainstay for fever and pain relief during pregnancy. It's much safer than the alternatives. And Kennedy wants to take that away, all for the sake of the Almighty Buck.
