RFK Jr. isn't interested in finding cause of autism

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By Lisa Jarvis / Bloomberg Opinion

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vow to uncover the cause of autism by September is ludicrous. There are no fast and easy answers in science, especially when it comes to complex neurodevelopmental conditions.

Moreover, Kennedy’s history of bending science to match his pet theories suggests any “answers” he finds may do more harm than good. And the biggest concern is that this initiative is a ruse to push his anti-vaccine agenda.

Normally, I’d embrace fresh attention to a condition affecting so many children and their families. But Kennedy is walking into the project, which he claims will involve hundreds of researchers around the world, with a stubborn misunderstanding of the disorder and how to address it.

That starts with his alarmist framing of autism as a rapidly growing epidemic that is uniquely threatening to American children; a shift he believes is driven by some change in their environment.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-rfk-jr-isnt-interested-in-finding-cause-of-autism/

[samnsara]

1. gestational diabetes was just identified as a(nother) possible cause...

[GreenWave]

2. He misspoke. He meant to find the cause of August by September.

[multigraincracker]

3. Fecal Transplants might work.

https://newatlas.com/adhd-autism/fecal-transplants-for-autism-delivers-success-in-clinical-trials/

[bucolic_frolic]

4. What's going on in your gut is going on in your mind

vagus nerve and all that stuff. https://pxdocs.com/vagus-nerve/vagus-nerve-and-autism/

Really interesting

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[dweller]

5. idk ... but I fear it will all come down to

Microplastics … they’ve been found in fetal tissues
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[valleyrogue]

6. A lot more kids, for example, are being diagnosed (or over diagnosed in my opinion)

with ASD. It is incorporating all kinds of things that were labeled something else decades ago; for example, many children who would have been called MR or MMH are given the ASD diagnosis while others are called "intellectually disabled," which is more accurate. So-called "Asperger" syndrome was a separate diagnosis until 2013 and incorporated as part of the autism spectrum disorder.

Since the definition of what constitutes ASD has changed and been broadened, of course there are going to be a lot more kids diagnosed as having it.

I work with special education students, and a lot of the kids I work with have been diagnosed as being ASD (with many having other diagnoses).