One in 36 children have autism, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is looking for the cause. However, Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte noted one problem with the mission: Kennedy “pre-determined [his] conclusion.”
“By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic," Kennedy said last week when he announced a "massive testing and research effort."
However, Marcotte opined, “no scientist can promise a definitive 'answer' to a complex biological question at the beginning of a study. Nor can anyone confidently declare they'll have that inquiry wrapped up in a few short months, as if they're writing a summer book report instead of conducting a scientific investigation.”
Multiple times she said Kennedy’s mission is "sadistic," saying, “His fixation on playing games with the bodies of vulnerable kids has a sadistic and eugenicist edge to it.”
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“Kennedy has a sadistic streak towards children that is not hard to see, for those willing to look," Marcotte wrote. "In 2019, Kennedy played a major role in persuading large numbers of Samoan parents to avoid the measles vaccine in their kids, which he glowingly described as a ‘natural experiment.’ The result was predictable: measles spread rapidly and children started dying.”
She went on to question the treatment Kennedy suggests to treat autism, like using vitamin A. “He's been telling parents to overdose kids with vitamin A, which can cause liver damage. He's been pushing the steroid budesonide and the antibiotic clarithromycin, both of which can have side effects. None of these treatments work, and they all risk making the situation worse.”
She ended the column saying, “Despite all his protestations to the contrary, Kennedy does not want American kids to be healthier. He instead seems determined to bring back horrific diseases that do nothing but hurt or even kill children.”
