https://www.newsweek.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-children-autism-comments-spark-online-backlash-2060850
RFK Jr. spoke to reporters on Wednesday after the release of a new survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, which found that autism prevalence in the U.S. had increased from one in 36 children in 2020 to one in 31 today.
He called autism a "preventable disease," adding: "We know it's environmental exposure. It has to be. Genes do not cause epidemics. They can provide a vulnerability, but you need an environmental toxin."
Many medical experts and autism advocacy groups reject this idea and have suggested that greater awareness, in addition to increased testing and screening by health care professionals, has led to higher numbers.
Except this time his mistake is the source of the change. It's not vaccines. It's more moms smoking marijuana while pregnant, eating foods full of chemicals that don't belong in a human body while pregnant, exposure to microplastics and airborne pollutants while pregnant. We are slowly poisoning ourselves as a society. Look at the recent studies showing an association between the level of microplastics in the brain and the risk of dementia in the elderly.
ReplyDeleteYes, a big part of the increase in autism is the liberalization of the criteria to the point that anyone eccentric is now labelled as autistic. But environmental toxicity is also a huge factor.
He is not a professor of medicine
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