RFK Jr.’s Quest To Discover Autism Causes Will Help Restore Americans’ Trust In Science
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced an effort to investigate the dramatic rise in autism in recent years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 36 children now has autism, an over 300 percent increase since 2000. Kennedy pledged to find the cause of the autism epidemic by September and then to take steps to eliminate it.
Kennedy’s new investigation raises several obvious questions: Why hasn’t it been done earlier? How could something as common sense as investigating the causes of autism be controversial in any way? Are Democrats, such as Elizabeth Warren, who want to make Kennedy swear to a ban on suing big pharmaceutical companies, afraid of what the investigation will find?
It might be shocking for some to hear, but the secretary of Health and Human Services has a responsibility to better Americans’ health. While, of course, all lives, including those with autism, are precious and valuable, autism is generally unhealthy and unideal, in addition to costing hundreds of billions of dollars. No doubt, some of the dramatic increase in cases is due to the growth of autism screening over the past two decades. But if the disorder is indeed preventable, society would benefit from preventing it.
Critics are afraid of any health investigations by Kennedy because they are afraid of the sacred cows he might uncover, namely vaccines. The CDC says there is no link between vaccines and autism, but if that is true, then there is surely no harm in double-checking.
Not only does science need to be correct to be effective, but it also needs to be perceived to be correct. If the public does not buy the science, then the science is no longer useful. Trust in the public health establishment is understandably down. The experts™ told us Covid-19 was not made in a lab, that six-feet social distancing was totally legit and not arbitrary at all, that masking kindergarteners was necessary, that the Covid shot would prevent getting the virus, that it would only take 15 days to slow the spread, and that there was good scientific reason not to visit our loved ones during their last hours. All of that was a lie.
Kennedy gained so much traction in his presidential campaign — and support for his Senate confirmation — because Americans of all political stripes realize obesity is on the rise, mental health is at an all-time low, fertility is on the decline, and our kids are suddenly having autism at much higher rates. Kennedy, unlike the experts™, cares about solving these glaring and obvious problems. Politicians of the past would not even acknowledge their existence. To do so would have made too many powerful people angry, or worse — made powerful people admit they were wrong.
Hypothetically, if Kennedy’s investigation does not find a link between vaccines and autism — or a link between autism and anything at all — at least the science will have been publicly tested and verified. If nothing else, trust in our public health institutions is sure to rise. The perceived validity of the science will then become closer to the actual validity of the science.
But if Kennedy’s investigation does find a link between autism and some factor, there is the potential to save millions of kids from future health problems. That is something to celebrate. Our kids deserve to be healthy.
Even some Republicans, such as Mike Pence and Bill Cassidy, think the American people are stupid and should give their blind trust to a health establishment that has consistently been wrong — or worse, maliciously lied. What is even more concerning is that no Senate Democrats could bring themselves to support Kennedy, a recent Democrat himself. They will come up with other reasons they did not support him, but deep down, the real reason is that they hate outsiders and hate to admit they were wrong. They have proven they are more pro-status quo than they are pro-American health. The science cannot be trusted if it is not tested.
Last November, the American people rejected the corrupt medical establishment’s blind #TrustTheScience and embraced the MAHA movement, where no topic is too taboo, science is questioned and refined, and America can be made healthy again.
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