They announced they’d be announcing this last spring. I’m just going to copypasta what I wrote on my Facebook at the time, because I was pretty happy with it to be honest
Humor me for a minute. Let’s pretend that HHS promised the cause of type I diabetes by September. This has been researched for years, and suddenly they’re going to have the cause pinpointed? And without knowing what that cause is (much less how or even if it could be prevented) they’re also promising to say how it could be prevented. Seems kinda unrealistic at best, yeah?
Now let’s go back to what’s actually being attempted: “finding” the cause of autism. Same thing, except it’s being lead by a guy who has been drinking the conspiracy-flavored Kool Aid for years. You would have a hard time convincing me that 1) after years of research, they will have a definitive and final cause in about 6 months, 2) this will be directed with the neutrality needed for proper research, and 3) of all the many many diseases we have in this country, autism just so happens to be the one that needs that immediate attention.
As with any great modern scientific discovery, nothing is shared, or can be guessed from existing evidence, until the great reveal!
If they had actually discovered a cause of autism, or even substantially advanced research in that area they would have announced it right away, rather than engaging in this hype cycle bs like they are trying to defraud a venture capitalist.
More to the point, we already know the cause of autism; genetics. This isn’t new, it’s not some shocking discovery, it’s been known about for ages. Most of the research at this point is focused on the interconnections between autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dysphraxia, which all show a high propensity for genetic clustering; basically if one person in a family has one of them, the odds of the others being present in the same or other members shoots up massively. That’s really interesting and suggests they might all just be different manifestations of the same underlying genetic condition.
The whole notion that autism has a “cause” is just anti-vaxxer nonsense concocted by a fraud doctor (that’s not an accusation, it’s a fact; he was stripped of his medical license after it was shown that his “research” was a sham, and that he literally tortured innocent children to concoct his fake results) feeding on the insecurities of parents who want someone to blame for their child being different rather than just accepting that sometimes that’s just how people do be.
This guy is a professional moron, his father would be appalled
The autistics yearn for the concentration camp - RFK probably
Change the word “reveal” to “guess at”.
As I pointed out in another comment, no guessing is required. It’s genetics. We know it’s genetics. That’s been pretty self-evident from the data for decades. It’s just anti-vaxxers who refuse to accept that answer and prefer some made up woo by a quack doctor who tortured children.
Sorry, my bad, two quack doctors. The other sells his blood as an autism “cure”.
This is exactly how science normally works. “We’ve figured out something extremely important, but we aren’t going to make it available for a month, so we can build up suspense.”
Imagine an ignorant like RFK Jr telling the world for the first time the cause of autism 🤯
Inb4 vaccines
I’m placing my bet they claim something like “testing for autism causing autism”… they’ll ban the tests. Problem “solved”!
looks at the CDC
Suuuuuuuure you will.
Oh great, another distraction for the voter base.
Will this be like “infrastructure week”?
